Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-19

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only means by which the previou
life of Anschlag could be shown.
| The motion was denied for tn
reason that there had not been
proper foundation by affidavits allee
| ing the facts the witnesses would tes
tify to il produced.
The attorneys for the defense thel
closed their case.
Anton Decker was recalled by tn
District Attorney in rebuttal. Tn
questions propounded being objecte,
to and the objections sustained by tn,
Court, the witness was ordered {,
stand aside.
MR.. RAAKE,
Being called in rebuttal, testified
I conversed with the prisoner nearl,
every day after he was taken to th'
county jail.
@. Were you satisfied of his SAINT,
during such conversations
A. l was satisfied he knew righ
from wrong.
Cross-examination-I notice man,
eccentricities in his conversation ant
manners. l am not an expert and dt
not pretend to be. I only Judge as tx
the sanity of Anschlag as any one els,
would.
VIM. H. YOUNGER.
l am a druggist. l visited Anschla,
at the County Jail on Thursday fol
the purpose of acting as interpreter fo
DIR. Kirkpatrick and others. / con
versed in German and carefully in
terpreted his answers to questions
He answered me readily and intelli.
gently.
The court desired that Anton Decker
be called, as he had concluded to ad
NIT his evidence.
He testified: On Tuesday anC
Wednesday worked with Anschlaf
on the farm, and conversed frequent
ly. We both speak the same Ian,
guage. He seemed to be excited, bu,
further than that he talked like q
sensible man. He seemed to be a
shrewd man, and worked very hard.
He did everything in hurry.
Cross.examination Il think the
changes made in moving the chicken
coops were good ones. 1 thought the
man was all right, but after he was
arrested thought he must have been
insane. He seemed excited on Tues
day and did not talk much.
ROBERT MARTIN
Testified: am a deputy sheriff, and
am employed at the County Jail.
know Anschlag, and have talked with
him every day. / consider him as
sane as any other man. l do not
speak German, but have conversed
with the prisoner in English.
Cross-examination: ! have arrived
at the conclusion of his sanity just as
l would any one with whom l am
thrown with or in whose company /
might happen to be.
EMIL HARRIS
Testified: 1 have conversed with
in the County Jail three
different times and several times
while taking him to and from the Jail.
He always answered my questions in.
telligently, and l have always con-
sidered him sane. At the last inter-
view, which was night before last, he
was very much excited over the
questions of some reporter in relation
to man who was murdered in Butte
county. (Ohj@cted to, and objection
sustained.)
Cross-examination: l have not
taken any undue interest in prosecu-
ting the prisoner. have worked up
all the evidence could in the case,
but if I should find anything favora-
BILE l would as cheerfully furnish it.
This completing the evidence de-.
sired to be introduced on both sides,
the attorneys were directed to 90 to
the jury. District Attorney Du Puy
his argument to the jury
at 2:15 p. M, and was followed by
Mr.. Peyton. All of these gentlemen
recited the history of the case from
their points OF view, the attorney for
the defense agreeing that Anschlag
must have been insane, and asking
the jury to take that into considera-
ton when it retired to the jury-room.
The concluding argument was made
by Di trict Attorney Du Puy, who,
during his speech, made remark
which so pleased the audience that
there was quite a demonstration OF
approval, by means of stamping OF
feet. Judge Cheney, who had
warned the audience to beware OF
making demonstration, ordered the
courtroom cleared, and the Sher-
iff, assisted by several depu-
ties, obeyed his request. After
this had been accomplished
Mr.. Du Puy concluded his
argument, and Judge Cheney read to
the jury the usual instructions. Al
six minutes to five O'Clock the key in
the door of the jury room was turned
and that body left to it's meditations.
THE VERDICT.
Upon the retirement of the iury
there were many speculations as to
how long it would take for an agree.
ment to be reached. The general
opinion was that the jury would re-
turn inside of ten minutes, but such
was not the case. 1t was exactly at
ten minutes past five O'Clock when the
rapping at the door announced that
an agreement had been reached. The
door was unlocked and the iurymen
resumed the places they had occupied
during the trial. The foreman, Mr..
John Snodgrass, then read the YER
dict, which was: 1--WE, the jury in the
above case, find the defendant guilty
as charged" This verdict was not
such as was required by the court,
and Judge Cheney, after instructinQ
the jury as to the form of the verdict
required, sent it to the jury room
again, from which it emerged few
seconds later with the following YER
dict: "We, the jury in the above en-
titled cause, find the defendant guilty
Of murder in the first degree. The
jury was then discharged, and Friday,
at 10 O'Clock A. ~, set as the time fol
sentence, which, acc riding to law,
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