mills he has tried
them. And Huffman was influence»! ! « ent of *the civil
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and in luced to do this by as infam tiie re w U<» tie«! Io» ltstn to make
ous and as d isreputable a process as reply to ««ch •fatemenhi. The re-
And when
ever disgraced the infernal annals of cool speaks lor itself.
the records of hell. The facts are he has defended men in Ohio Mis
that certain persons went to Huff souri, Kansas and Oregon, for al
man, after he had employed me, and most every crime, including murder,
A Few False Stories About told him a. number of lies about me. manslaughter, assault with intent to
Among other things, they told him, kill, rape, incest, burglary, grand
the Fred Huffman Case
First —“That when it came to his larceny and false pretenses, and
trial,
I would throw him down on fortunately has never had a client
Corrected
his defense of insanity, and that 1 convicted and sent to the pen iten-
did not know how to try a case of tiary, it is not necessary f r him to
BY C. R BARROW
that kind anyhow." In answer to answer such attacks. The records
this 1 say without hesitation, that answer them.
And this Huffman case is only one
Some of my friends at Myrtle it is a lie out of the whole cloth
The
man
who
says,
or
who
insinu
of
seveial cases in which persons have
Point, Bandon, and here at Co
ates,
or
even
intimates,
that
I
ever
meddled ith mv clients and vilified
quille have called my attention
frequently and lately to some false even thought of throwing Huffman me personally.
stories that have been circulated down on his defense of insanity, or
I have never before said any
by some of my enemies, about me any other defense that he might thing about the trea: mrnt 1 received
in connection with the above men have had, is as great a liar as old from certain parties in the Reddick
I never threw case, but now I will expose that
tioned case.
Ordinarily I pay no Lucifer himself.
attention to such things. And if down a client in my life, nor have also. Soon after Mr. Reddick em
this was the first time since I came 1 ever even thought of doing such a ployed me to defend him and while
And no man dare to face
to Coquille that my clients had thing.
he was in the county jail here, he
been meddled with, and I had been me and say I have, for he would told me what influence certain per
lied about, I would most likely know that he was not telling the sons were using on him in order to
ignore it now.
But there has been truth.
get him to discharge me and em
Second—They told Huffman,
meddling in several of my cases.
ploy certain other attorneys. He
Notably the Reddick case, and two ‘ That I wanted him to go to the said, “Why you would hardly be
or three other cases which I will penitentiary.” In reply to this 1 say lieve the pressure they have brought
comment upon later
And when that it is a lie pure and simple to bear to get me to dischare you."
false stories are circulated to injure There is not a particle of truth or Then he went ahead and told me
a man's character and reputation, even the semblance of truth in it.
all about it, and the mean things
and to ruin his business, it is time
Third—They
told
Huffman, they said about me.
Now I was
for him to contradict them. This “That I w»s net trying to look up meeting some of these parties on
I propose to do.
A few persons any evidence for him, and that I the streets almost daily and they
have made it their business seem was making no preparations for his spoke to me as pleasantly and
ingly, to say mean things about me, defense.”
Now I can prove this is treated me as friendly as my real
and to stick a knife into me at a lie. by Dr. Richmond, T. A. true friends did. And after passing.
every opportunity ever since I first Walker, C. W. Dye, J. E. Perrot, I have often thought, “you hypo
came to Coquille. But I am happy Henry Miller, and at least twenty crite, you whited sepulchre, you evi
to say there are only a few persons others,’ all as good, as reputable, dently don’t know that I am fully
so constituted.
And I know that and as honorable citizens as ever aware cf your perfidy and double
the great majority of the people of lived in Coos county.
dealing."
And not one of these
Coquille, and of Coos county are
I never worked harder in my life persons had any reason or occasion
honorable and fair minded and be on a man’s defense than 1 did on for doing
such
low, mean,
lieve in an “open field" and a Huffman’s defense of insanity. As underhanded work against me, much
“square deal” for every one. And soon as he employed me 1 started less any justification. In fact at
this is all I ask of any man, or of men to look up evidence. I had four that time I was a'most a stranger
any community.
men in the tv Id from six to eight to them and they to me.
After
Some of these false stories which weeks and paid them for their ser wards when Mr. Stanley became
I had twenty-seven good associated in the same case with me,
my friends have called to my at vices.
tention are as follows:
First— witnesses, and I would have had at 1 asked Mr. Reddick if they said
Because 1 did not conduct Huff least two, and possibly three good anything against him, and he said
man’s case in court, some evil dis physicians to testify.
I l ad Huff no, that they poured out all their
posed persons have told it around. man examined three or four times venom on me alone.
And he said
“That I took a fee of Huffman and as to his epileptic condition, and as this very fact showed the meanness
then refused to defend him, and to his periods of epileptic insanity. and the animus of their actions so
would not do anything for him." I had traced his history from boy plainly, that he could see they were
Now I can piove by Sheriff Gage, hood.
His epileptic attacks, and doing it more to injure me, than to
Clyde Cage, T. J. Thrift, George the effect of the same upon his men assist him, so he paid no attention
Moulton, J. J, Stanley and others, tal and moral faculties, and to what to their villifying statements, and
that this is a lie And I do not want extent these faculties had become stuck all the closer to me I passed
any better witnesses to any fact than clouded, abn >rmal, and irrational. the matter up, and said nothing
the above named gentlemen, who Also his family history for heredi about it except to my wife. I did
are all honorable, upright, well tary influences.
I had obtained not as much as tell Mr. Stanley un
known citizens of Coos County a minute history of Huffman’s every til lately.
And I would not men
And these gentlemen with others action during the day and night of tion the fact now, but some of these
were present and know that the the fire, the peop.e he talked with sneaky, cowardly assassins of hu-
reason I did not conduct Huffman’s and the condition of his mind at mon character, stiff keep secretely
cases in court, was because he took that time.
Also of the various stabbing me in the back. They did
both of his cases out of my hands. threats that had been made against so in the Reddick case, in this Huff
He would not have any of the wit him at divers times, and the effect man case, and in at least three other
nesses I had hunted up, because these threats made on his mind and cases.
certain parties had told him that I his epileptic condition.
I also
Just previous to the last Septem
wanted him to go to the peniten know that some of the state's wit ber term of court, a prominent man
tiary, and that I was going to throw nesses had a disagreement on cer of Coquille, I repeat it, a prominent
him down on his defense of insan tain points of their testimony, and a man of Coquille tried to get certain
ity. All of which were lies. But certain attorney told them that it of my clients to discharge me and
Huffman, having known me for would not make any difference, as employ another attorney, and he
only a few weeks, and therefore their statements had not been taken said and insinuated all the mean
believing these false stories about down, and no one knew the dif things about me that he could in
me, would not permit me to have ference between their several state order to induce them to do so.
anything further to do with his case, ments, but he was mistaken, we had Fortunately for me my clients stuck
except that he wanted me to make found it out.
to me, as all the others have done
the final plea to the jury. And I
In preparing Huffmau's defense except Huffman. And fortunately
can prove by the above named hon of insanity I used the best authori for them, I won their case for them.
orable citizens of Coos county that I ties that are published, and besides I have no comments to make on the
did just what Huffman himself the eight works ol insanity which above case of outrageous inter-med
ordered done. And I did so from I had in my office, I borrowed dling with mv business. I am per
the same motive that any honorable one from
Chas. Mcknight and fectly willing to leave it to each and
attorney would have acted under Irought a new work on epileptic in every honest man and woman in
the same circumstances.
And ihat sanity especially to use in Huffman's Coquille and in Cor s county, to
was, to avoid a clash in open court, case. And spent a good many make their own comments. When
which would have been an insult to days and nights preparing his case ever I become so low and vile, and
the dignity of the court, and an in for trial.
so lost to all sense of honor, as to
jury to any defense that Huffman
And any man who says, who in go to people and tell them not to
might have.
timates, or even insinuates that 1 trade at this or that store, or not to
And rigid here I desire to say did not look up the evidence and employ this or that physician or
without any egotism, but soley on a make a thorough preparation to de lawyer, or any other line of business.
basis of my examination and fend Huffman, is a liar.
I hope the “good people" of Co
And
any
man
who
says,
who
in
knowledge of the whole case, that
quille and Coos county will prompt
if meddling outside parties had kept timates, or even insinuates that I ly drum me cut.
To do such a
their hands off, and had not induced accepted a fee of Huffman and then thing publicly and openly is mean
Huffman to employ another attorney voluntarily quit his case or refused enough, but to do it sneakingly and
secretly by inuendos and insinua
in my place, I feel perfectly con to defend him. is a liar.
fident that I would have cleared
Fourth—They
told Huffman. tions against a man's character, his
him, for never, in my life, was I “That I was no good as a lawyer, reputation, his ability, and his
better prepared to try a case than I and that I could not examine wit integrity, is meaner than the scum
was to try Huffman's case. Stanley nesses, nor select a jury.” As to of the brew of the slime in the
and I cleared Reddick without a these statements, I have no per cauldrons of hell
•ingle witness of his own to support sonal reply to make.
The record
The poet has well said,—“He who
him. while I had almost thirty wit- speaks for itself. When a man has steals my purse steals trash; ’twas
nea»es to testify for Huffman, but he practiced law from 1890 to the pie- something, nothing; "twas mine,
positively refused to allow me to use sent, and has won over ninety per 'tis his; But he who filches from me
IMJUSIIGE OF
MALICIOUS GOSSIP
X5OE3s.F-'"" ■ in» "■■■—
:ny good name, rebs me of that
which enricheth him not, and makes
me poor indeed.”
It is hard to understand just what
the mental and moral make-up
really is of a man who seems to en
joy reveling and wallowing in the
slime of his own malicious ahd un
warranted gossip, and his lying
statements about others and about
their business, which is plainly and
unquestionably none of his business.
Feeding his rapacious, maw vamper-
like, hyenalike upon humanity. His
mental and moral make up must be
of ghouls, ghoulish.
As Beecher
has well said, “The livelong ilay he
will «ooly sit with sneering lip,
transfixing every character that is
presented."
if there is any one
man who is meaner anil more vile
than another, it is the man who
sneaks around anil stabs you in the
back. The man who sits around
watching I ke a sylvan demon, for
an opportunity to make mean, dis
paraging Remarks about you, or
worse yet, to throw out vile slurs
and insinuations about you where
he thinks it will injure you most
and where he feels that his precious
hide is safe among his friends, er
your enemies.
Where he thinks
you won’t hear of what he has said
and annot get back at him, like the
poor,
miserably cringing moral
coward that he is. A being so vile
that he disgraces the Almighty, his
Creator;
and shames the Devil,
his king.
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