Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-15
STAR ROUTE VERDICT.


0EoLARED NOT GUILTY.
soenes OF Excitsmsns In the cours Room,
Followed BY Drunken Revel-HSs'-
iDg and HowIing Like . Hob.
The words Not guilty in the GRIM
inal court room at Warrington Thursday
morning started an immense assemblage
to cheering, which the president judge
made no attempt to check. The speaker
was Foreman Crane, of the Star Route
jnry, and his associates, when asked by
the clerk of the court if his words express.
ed their convictions, nodded in acQuies-
cence. There was no apparent trace Of
sleeplessness in any ofthe jurymen, but
all appeared fresh and bright, including
Juror Vernon. who created such an excite
ment Wednesday by falling in q drunken
fit. As the words of the foreman vibrated
through the court room thu spectators
without an exception cheered and those
nearest the defendants congratulated them
heartily. Ex-senator Dorsey was con.
spicuous for his absence, but his brave
little wife was on hand and seemed the
most enthusiastic member of the assem-
bly, over the acquittal of her husband.
General Brady maintained the same air OF
indifference that has characterized him
throughout this remarkable trial, but
Miner, Vale and John Dorsey manifested
their exultation by joining the shouting,
excited throug around them and lending
their voices to the chorus. Judge Wylie,
attired in black broadcloth coat and
trousers, white duck vest, buttoned high
over lis chest and black necktie and stand
ing white collar, sat dignified but appar
emily daZed by the announcement of the
foreman, since he made no effort to check
the tumult about him. Counsel for the
defense sat in line at their tables, sur
rounded by handsomely dressed ladies,
in a majority of cases members of their
families, but the government only had one
representative at the counsel table-Mr.
w. w. Ker, the Philadelphia indictment
drawer.
For few minutes the noise in the court
room was so great "a to render it impOs-
sible for anything like orderly proceeding,
but finally the crowd recognized the clear
! cut features of Mr.. Walter Davidge, one
of the counsel of the defense, as he tower.
ed above the assemblage from a conven-
ient table. He wanted the verdict recorded
legally and when this was Concluded the
crowd broke out again with loud huzzas.
None of tho adherents Of the defense were
absent from the court room and they
profited by the opportunity to show their
feelings, while the pictures of Clay, Wash.
ington jackson and Corcorau which orna-
ment the walls Of the court room appeared
to frown disappr0vingly down upon such
scene in the temple of justice.
| The discharge of the jury was the sigma
for rush of congratulatory spectators,
and each Of the jurymen was subjected to
a vigorous handshaking process. Mrs.
Dorsey, Mrs. Peck and Murilla Kicker,
after standing on chairs and screaming,
laughing and sobbing alternately, some
how got out of the crowd and organized
an impromptu camp meeting in the near
est corridor. They sang, cried and acted
for all the world like demented beings.
Poor Ker, out of place IN such a crowd,
got out also and slipped quietly away,
while Rerdell went off by side door and
hurried down to Merrick's Office to bear
the evil news. The crowd then poured
pell-mell into the street, still shouting and
throwing up their hats, some of them
without knowing just what it was all
about, but catching tho enthusiasm by in
fection. Across the street to The Hole
in-the. .WalI' they rau, quickly jamming
the bar room.
Up stairs sat ex-senator Dorsey. He
was neither blind to the situation nor
deaf TO the ringing cheers. Calling to the
proprietor he ordered free entertainment,
solid and liquid, and in a very short time
the scene of enthusiasm and excitement
was changed to one of drunken revel.
Meanwhile Mrs. Dorsey and two or three
other ladies got up stairs and, having ex-
hausted their lungs, fell to kissing. Mrs.
Kicker threw her arms about Dorsey's
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the crowd. For moment tho senator
Colonel IngersOll, like the good husband
in tho books, kissed his own wife until her
bright eyes sparkled with pleasure Iu-
gerso!l cried, Miner sobbed, Vale fairly
b!ub5ered and, taken all in all, a large
quantity of tears were shed in and about
the court house.
Thursday afternoon the defendants en-
joyed an ovation wherever they went.
Brady in front of the Western Union
telegraph Office was surrounded by friends,
who congratulated him on the successful
issue of the trial. brady looked smilingly
happy aud held his head up like man
who was no longer hunted. Colonel In.
gersol, surrounded by his wife and beauti-
full daughters in bis library, held an
informal reception. Jerry Wilson, with a
cigar as big as his arm in his mouth, stood
comfortably around with his hands in his
pockets. Dorsey soon shook off his
admirers and went home with his wife.
The rest of the counsel for the defeuse
we're equally sought.
The lawyers for the government were
nowhere to be seen. Attorney General
Brewster shut himself up and denied 40
cess to newspaper mon. Ker took the
afternoon train for Philadelphia. Merrick
sat with Rerdell in his inner Office. Bliss
couldn't be found for some time, and when
lie was he had nothing to say, except that
twelve men disagreed with the government
in this case. The fact is, the lawyers for
the prosecution knew beforehand what the
verdict was likely to be.
DORSEY'S NEW DANGER
| "A 20 ,sibility That He may Have to Answer
| for Judge Lilley's Death.