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'"*Mere Tool of Paper.®" Mr. Lewis was followed by Mr. | HMellmuth, who scored the former severely for making no retraction. Mr. Lewis rose and departed in the course of Mr. Hellimuth's address»: whereupon the counsel referred to "running away.'"' | '"'These facts show that, conscious-- 'ly or unconsciously, Mr. Lewis had | been a mere tool in the hands of that paper,'" he said. '"No decent foe stabs a man in the back as The Telegram endeavored to stab Mr. «e Backus." Mr. Waldron dGirected his argu-- ment principally to establishing tha! the Attorney--General's Department had not been lax in enforcement of law in this case. '"Four hours after the death of 'Huston the machinery of justice was in operation," he declared. '"'The accusers made their accusations malignantly, with selfish and vile purpose. The poor creature, Lewis, was put up in the Legislature to make the charges." The officers of The Telegram, he said, gave re-- luctant, dishonest, evasive and un-- ,true evidence. He described that newspaper as planning. '"as knaves, as guttersnipes, as thieves plan in their dens," to place this charge against the department of the At-- torney--General. ' Referring to Mr. Lewis and his !avowed purpose in making _the \charges, Mr. Waldron said: ""'This man, who takes on an aspect of piety before you, is not telling the truth."