Hide Article Text (OCR)
tiAinuuu nun rnic.AFTER TWENTY-ONE HOURS JURYRENDER8 VERDICT.THE DEFENSE WAS GLEEFULGovernor Goodtng Say* the State WillCo Ahead*—Orchard Ready to Take Hi* Medicine.Rolan. Idaho*. Into the bright «»» light of » Sabbath morning. Into the stillness of a city drowsy with the lary slumbers of a summer Sunday, William U Haywood, defendant In one of the moat soted trial* Involving eons piracy and murder that the country ha* ever known, walked today afree matt, acquitted of the murder offormer tlovernor Frank Steuncnberg.The probability of a verdict of acquittal In the case of the secretary*treasurer and acknowledged leader of the Western F deration of the Miners had been freely predicted aince yesterday, when Judge Fremont Wood read hi# charge, w hich wa* regarded a* strongly fa voting the defense in its lnt* rpretatlon of Ihe law of conspiracy, circumstantial evidence and the corroboration of an accomplicewho confesses.It cattle sis an electric thrill to thlt; prisoner, to h counsel, to the defend ant* of tb .State nnd to the snial group of newspaper men and eotir officials who had been summoned fron beds but lat« Iv sought, or from offlee* where -leepless waiting hatmarked the uicht.Tear* welhd to the eye* of thlt;man wht. si tting the eighty days ohi* trial, had *nt with stolid Indiffet enre written «i|sm every feature a last the Icy armor he had thrown abou himself with the first day of Jury *«lection hud la-en pierced, and wha ever pent*np feeling had been cot talned within wsts loosed Haywood' attorneys were fairly lifted from the! »**ats, and Judge Wood made no effoi to restrain them, as they surround.him to shake his hands and shot aloud their congratulation* .lame* 1 llawl v. leading counsel (or the Statand O. X Van IJnyen, the prosecutlr attorney of the county in which forier Governor t?»eunenberg was assassiated. sat gloomy and unspeaking their places. Senator Itorah, who mas the rloslng plea for conviction, wi not present. Of the prisoner s cotins those in the court room were Clt ence Harrow of Chicago, K P Rlcsrds-on of ivnver and John F. Ngent of ltolse.Houston Interested.Houston, Tex: l,ocal interest in tverdict of the Haywood trial was tense. The press telephones wc kept constantly ringing last night Inquirers s.*‘king information from t Jury room, and when the morning’s sues stated that a verdict would pnably be rendered this morning ihe terest wii. InteiiHifled About 10 o’c'r the first bulletins announced the qulttal to crowds on the street, extra Issued at noon sold like 1 takes and when the news was verlf the knowing ones with their I tyou so” became conspicuous.1150.000 TIMBER LAND DEAL.
Newspaper Details
Liberty Vindicator
Liberty, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1907
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Houston P.
TX, USA 03 Aug 2019
Other Publications Near Liberty, Texas
Liberty Vindicator
