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office, in the attitude of a friend, he went there to assault Judge
Reid with a cowhide, then concealed on his person; and to carry out
this crime he had resolved upon as early as March 23d, but he was
deterred from doing so because there was some one else in the office
besides Judge Reid, and he said he knew if he had tried to accom-
plish his purpose there he would have been prevented.
    You now begin to see how Judge Reid was unsuspectingly be-
guiled into this defendant's office.
    The author of that " infamous letter," as Col. Johnson termed it,
within a few days after the assault, turned up, by some sort of pro-
cess, as the chief legal adviser of this defendant, who said he had
lied in making the statements he had in that letter. This attorney
says to you, Judge Reid went to Cornelison's office to obtain papers
to refute another charge that had been made against him, referring to
his (Turner's) own letter. This jury and this community know
whether that charge uttered against Judge Reid proved to be a
boomerang, and whether the charger was in the end injured more
than the person charged.
    Charles Schaeffer testifies he saw Judge Reid and Cornelison
at twenty minutes to twelve o'clock on April 16, 1884, talking in a
friendly manner at the foot of the stair steps to the Masonic Temple
that lead up from Main street to defendant's law office; they were
close together, and Reid was leaning over on his elbow talking to
Cornelison; the witness was off a few steps, waiting an opportunity
to tell Judge Reid something touching his canvass; that he stood
there some five minutes and went on home, about one hundred
yards off, on the opposite side of Main street, and toward Judge
Reid's residence; and in about fifteen minutes afterward, say twelve
o'clock at noon, he saw Judge Reid pass by on the opposite side
of the street, going toward home. Schaeffer states he had known
Judge Reid for twenty years, and when they both lived at Versailles
Kentucky; that no one else was present or near Judge Reid and
Cornelison on that occasion; that he saw nothing unusual between
them, and, getting no chance to speak to Judge Reid, as he wished,
he left them there talking quietly and alone.
    This was only two hours before the assault; yet the defendant
had, at the foot of the steps that lead up to his office, this social and
friendly conversation with Richard Reid, when no one else was
present after Schaeffer left them; and at that very moment the
defendant was brooding over his contemplated assault, and only
waiting the promised opportunity to attack his innocent victim, then
all unconscious of the fate so soon to befall him. Why did not the
defendant assault Judge Reid then and there No person was there
to interfere after Schaeffer went home; and they were alone on the
sidewalk. No, he was not just ready to spring upon his prey. He