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"And he says in a letter that they could find pictures in White's studio which were lewd, but perhaps within the law. Was that a delusion?

"Will you gentlemen acquit a cold-blooded, cowardly, deliberate murderer on the ground of 'dementia Americana?'

"If the only thing that lies between every man and his enemy is a brainstorm, then let every man pack a gun. There are two things I want to say. They are: 'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord,' and that other law that was thundered from Mount Sinai:

"'Thou shalt not kill!'"