ng attorneys of the country unless upon the theory
that he was testifying to facts and to circumstances which had an
actual existence within his own experience.

"A child can testify truly and maintain itself on
cross-examination. A man may be able to frame his testimony and
testify falsely to a brief statement of facts involving a short and
single transaction and maintain himself on cross-examination.

"But I cannot conceive of a case where even the greatest intellect
can conceive a story of crime covering years of duration, with
constantly shifting scenes and changing characters, and maintain
that story with circumstantial detail as to times, places, persons,
and particular circumstances and under as merciless a
cross-examination as was ever given a witness in an American court
unless the witness thus testifying was speaking truthfully and
without any attempt either to misrepresent or conceal.... It is my
opinion, after a careful examination of this case in all its
details, that this defendant and the crimes which he committed were
only the natural product and outcome of the system which he
represented and the doctrines taught by its leaders, some of which
were boldly proclaimed and maintained, even upon the trial of the
defendant Haywood.

"This defendant had evidently become imbued with the idea
inculcated by those around him that the organized miners were
engaged in an industrial warfare upon one side of which his own
organization was alone represented, while on the other hand they
were confronted with the powers of organized capital, supported by
executive authority, and which counter organization included, or at
least controlled, the courts, which were the final arbiters upon
all legal questions involved.

"With the promulgation of such doctrines it is not a difficult
matter for some people to justify murder, arson, and other
outrages, and I am satisfied that it was that condition of mind
that sustained, bore up and nerved on this defendant and his
associates in the commission of the various crimes with which he
was connected."

FOOTNOTES:

[1]
_Copyright, 1908, by Ellen Terry (Mrs. Carew)_
_Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved_

[2] Mrs. Eddy also had copies of other Quimby manuscripts in her
possession.