The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-06


re'assembled yesterday morning Of nine
o'clock, when the jury In the strauder
case retired to their chamber. At 70
o'clock the Jury returned to the Court
room, and Michael Roth, the foreman,
gave the verdict al follows:
1--WE, the Jury, find the prisoner guilty
Of murder In the first degree, as charged
In the Indictment"
stauderp who was present, received the
verdict with perfect composure, and II
apparently had more effect upon the
many spectators than upon himself. The
Jury were then discharged, and the Court
adjourned until9 Pm. Before the Ad-
journment Of the Court, however, defend
ants counsel moved for q new trial. The
points claimed by counsel to sustain their
motion, we understand, are as follows:
two terms Of court have been held with
out bringing theiz client to trial, one Of
the jurors having expressed his opinion
Of the merits Of the case, and the fact that
there were no colored men on the Jury.
srauder will receive his sentence on the
last day Of the term, and will be hung IN.
less he receives a third trial.
In the afternoon the case Of Mai. W. G.
Carman, charged with the abduction Of
Emma Speidel, came up for trial, Car
man was arrested on the 18th day Of June
last, upon . warrant sworn out by Nicho.
las speidel, father OF the girl, who charged
him with illegally selling, taking away
and secreting his daughter, aged sixteen.
Upon the following day Carman was ex-
amined by Squire Gillespy, and sent to
jail without bail, to answer at the County
Court. At the last session OF tho County
Court an indictment was found against
him, and being unable to get bail he re-
maIned in Jail 10 await trial OF this term
Of the Circuit Court.
From the girls statement 1t appears
that Carmsn first met her while she was
visiting q sister in Bellaire. Meeting
her again in this city, as she
was diacontented at home, he easily
induced her by glittering promises 10 fol-
low him. BE took her TO Steubenville
and stopping OF a hotel registered as W,
Hawkins and daughter. Here, she says
he commenced teaching her now she
could help him. She was to be used as q
sort of decoy in matchmaking, and pass.
ing counterfeit money. The girl describ'
ed several plans Of the Msjor and his &C
complies for sWindling innocent vic
Tins. Two Of her brothers had been
searching for her in the meanwhile, and
one OF them meeting her on the street in
steubenVllle compelled her 10 return
home, when her father swo:e out the
warrant as before stated.
Hon. Lorenzo Daniord and W. s. Ken.
non, Esq, oil St. Clsirsville, and J. r.
Pendleton and 3. o. Taylor, Of Wheel
ing, appeared for the defense, and E. G.
Cracraft, G. o. Davenport and B. B
Dovener for the State. Several witnesses
were examined last evening, and CourI
adjourned until this morning, when thu
trial will continue. The following arc thu
names of the jury: Jabez Hall, David At
kinson, W. Z. Hughes, Leonidas Bruner
]. W. @. Smith, Thos. Reilly, Henry
Smith, Samuel Whitesides, Andrew Scott
E. L. Nicoll, B. E, Tiff, N. Hamilton.
Before adjOurning the Court continued
the case OF Albert Ray, charged with lar.
ceny, to some future time, and set the
cases Of State vs. Thomas Hughes and
State rS Frank Ford for examination to
day.