Asheville, Nov. 13—“He who hunts with the pack is responsible for the kill,” Mark W. Brown, who is assisting solicitor (several words obscured) Swain in the prosecution of the alleged mob members who stormed the county jail on September 19th, declared today in the opening argument for the state. “It was the pack that was behind those boys with the hammers, it was the pack that flowed through the gates and filled the jail and the jail yard, trampling the law under its feet. That pack was a howling mass, devoid of conscience, reason or heart,” he declared during the course of his address to the jury which was a bitter arraignment of those who would flout law and order.
When Superior Court convened in the morning at 9:30 o’clock, three hours of argument will remain before Judge A.M. Stack, who is presiding, starts his charge to the jury and places the fate of the 21 defendants in the hands of the men in the jury box.
The defense, which has been rambling along for several days with a great array of miscellaneous evidence first for one defendant and then for the other, suddenly rested its case at the midday recess and when court resumed its session at 2:30 o’clock, Mr. Brown arose to address the jury for the State.
During his talk the attorney for the prosecution took a list of those defendants who had gone on the stand in their own defense and o ne by one stood them up in fancy before the jury and riddled their defense with a withering denunciation of their alleged conduct on the night for the trouble, as told by witnesses for both State and defense.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 14, 1925
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