Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-28
THE TWELVE HEROES

the Murderer of James A. Carte cid.
Washington Special Chicago Herald, Jan. 25.l
At last they have spoken. The twelve
men who for the past ten weeks have
been silent spectators and listeners to the
most extraordinary murder trial OF the
age have broken their silence, and their
voice comedies with the verdict OF hui
mainly and prenounces Charles A. Gui-
teau murderer. The voice OF law this
time is the voice of reason, and the names
of the men who with such patience have
endured the enforced attendance upon
the Guiteau trial are certain to go
down in history. For fifty-two days
of actual trial their faces have
been constant study to prisoner, counsel
and spectators. Since the addresses to
them began they have been watched with
closer scrutiny and increasing interest.
Their faces never told what would be the
complexion of their verdict. Guiteau,
from some unknown reason, up to to-day,
seemed confident that in that silent
twelve he had at least one friend. But
to-day, as Judge Porter's address drew
toward a close, by that instinct Of i'm
pending danger which even the wild beast
acknowledges, his actions showed that
he feared the worst
Since the evidence closed the jury has
been in full view of everybody in the
court room. At one end of the front row
sat John p Hamlin, the foreman. He
was middle-aged man, with grave, in
telligent face. Ten weeks ago he was a
quiet restaurant keeper; tonight he was
the most envied man in Washington and
delivered the shortest and most effective
speech ever uttered in the federal capital
The second juryman, Frederick W.
Brandenburg, is little man, the mahog-
any hue of whose wrinkled face may
possibly have been grown brown over his
labor as cigar maker. He was evident
ly of a nervous temperament, and
listened with close attention to
every word that was said
A retired merchant named Henry J..
Bright, was the third juryman in the
front row, as he was the third man &C
cepted on the first day of the prisoners
arraignment. He is retired merchant,
and although one of the most intelligent
looking men on the jury was regarded
with some apprehension, as it was re-
ported that there was insanity in his
family. However this may be, that it
does not Turk in his brain SIS regards
homicidal insanity was proved by his
verdict this evening.
Sitting next to Bright was Charles j.
Stewart, the fourth juror, merchant of
good standing. By many he was regarded
as an inattentive listener during the
greater part of the trial. This idea arose
from the fact that he had habit of clos
ing his eyes in way that might have
been mistaken for drowsiness. He prob
ably found that the sound Of the trial
were trying enough without watching
Guiteau's antics, and so he CLOSED his eyes
to them.
Thomas H. Langley sat next. He was
the fifth and last juryman accepted on
the first day, which ended with the ex-
haustion of the original panel He is a
retired grocer. Unlike his neighbor
Stewart, he seemed to watch every turn
of the trial and prisoner with great in
tentness. He would occasionally lean
forward on his hands as if to get better
view of the case, but never in his face be-
traying the slightest indication of how
what he saw and heard affected him.
The last man on the front row was
Michael Sheahan, the first man chosen
from the list of seventy-five talesmen
present on the second day. He is a gro
Ger, Roman Catholic and Democrat.
The prosecution was thought to have
made mistake in allowing him to go on
the jury, as during his examination he
plainly stated that he thought the pris-
oner crazy. He has, however, either
changed his mind or thought that he was
not crazy enough to escape punishment
for his monstrous crime.
Joseph Prather, the first j,lryman on
the second row, was the twelfth man
drawn. He is an intelligent looking COM
mission merchant. He was formerly a
leading butcher of Washington, and on
the selection of the jury made the best
impression of any except, perhaps, Bright.
The man to whom possibly this trial
has been as great at aff1iction as even to
Guiteau, sat next to Prather-Samuel F.
Hobbs, who since the jury was impan-
neled lost his wife, and over whose Attic
ton the heartless criminal gloated as an
act of God showing divine disapproval of
the entire proceedings. Hobbs is well
known plasterer. a native of Baltimore.
who has resided in Washington for the
past thirty years. He is well advanced in
years and has always been man of high
standing among his neighbors. Lately,
during the progress of the trial, he has
sat with his head resting between his
hands as if oppressed with infinite weari-
ness. Ii anything was needed to destroy
all vestige of sympathy with Guiteau his
heartless reference to Mr.. Hobbs afflic-
ton would have done So
VIM. 81. Browner was the third man
on the second row. He is a member of
one of the best known grocery firms in
Washington, and in appearance was a
man decidedly above the average. In
the industrious search after the antece-
dents of every man on the jury the rumor
was that Browner like Bright had insan1-
ty in his family, and possibly such reports
as this reaching Guiteau may have sus-
tanned him with the thought that 'men
with insanity in their families would
stand by one another. He failed, how
ever, ito convince either of them that he
was the irresponsible heir to the insanity
vein in the Guiteau family
The man at whom Guiteau flung his
threat, that if necessary the deity would
remove one of the jurors, sat next to
Browner Ralph Wormley is a we'll
known colored laborer. He lives in How
ardtown, is plasterer by trade and has
lived in the district nearly all his life.
When the iI1rv was beinr selected MANY