The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-17

| Forrest, on behalf of the four convicted
| defendants, entered the accustomed motor
for new trial. After considerable dis
cussion the Judge fixed January 10 as the
day on which the motion for new tria
would be argued and the prisoners were
taken back to jail. Kunze was still crying
and went out of doors with tears running
down his face and still muttering and sob
bling to himself. Burke followed Kunze
and as he passed he whispered to Forrest an6
| smiled. He seemed entirely unconcerned
! O'Sullivan followed looking pale anG
sallow but not different from his usual ap
pearance. Coughlin was the last of the
prisoners to leave and as he stalked out he
half turned and looked back into the court
| room as if expecting to find some friend
The door changed behind the bailiff who
brought up the rear and the Cronin tria
was over.
It..was not until afternoon to-day that the
jury finally came to a verdict. and then ii
was that Juror Culver, who had been vot
ing for acquittal for all the defendants
since the jury went out, consented to com
promise. The other jurors were for hang
ing Burke, Coughlin and O'Sullivan, while
he was for letting them all off. Culver fin
ally agreed to life sentence for the three.
The jury was practically unanimous on the
subject Of Beggs' acquittal and but little
time was needed to fix Kunze's term.
''What do you think of the verdict,
judge!" asked an Associated Press repre-
sentative of Judge Mcconnell, after the
adjournment of the court for the day
''Ju6iciallY, of course, l can pass no opin-
ion upon the verdict AS an individual,
however, and without being cognizant of
the proceedings in the jury room, might
say think the verdict is the result of the
objection of some of the jury to the death
penalty on circumstantial evidence
mr.. Culver, probably?"
mo- not Mr.. Culver necessarily. I I'M
derstand he was in favor of acquittal from
the start 1t was only after long and
harrassing deliberation that he finally
agreed with the rest upon this verdict. You
will probably find that Mr.. Culver was not
the only man upon the jury who was op-
posed to the hanging of the three principal
defendants. But the jurors all swore on
being examined as to their competence
that they had no conscientious scruples
against capital punishment or circumstan-
tial evidence. That is all true, but behind
all this each man probably had mental re-
servation that the evidence must be con-
vincing beyond reasonable doubt. Now,
if some of these men should think there
was even the faintest shadow of a doubt as
to the guilt of these three men, do you not
see how natural it would be for them to
mentally compromise the matter with their
consciences, no matter how conclusive
their Judgment might be, by favoring life
Imprisonment in lieu Of the death penalty,
all because the case was one of circumstan-
tiallevidence?"
81 believe you feel relieved that there
has not been disagreement
81 do most assuredly. Although if the
jury had disagreed and it became necessary
to try the case again, / should not have
hinched from presiding over the same case
again"
About o'clock an Associated Press rep
resentative went to the Jail and found the
four convicted defendants out in the cor
rider with the other inmates taking their
usual exercise before supper. Kunze
seemed to hold himself apart from the
other prisoners, and remained in his cell,
refusing to be comforted in his misfortune
Coughlin and O'Sullivan were at the en-
trance of the cage, discussing the case
with couple Of the members of Camp 20,
who had called to offer their sym
pathy, or congratulation, who knows
which! At the approach of a Press
reporter they became silent
81 am sorry to disappoint you,n said
Coughlin courteously, "but do not want
to be interviewed"
''But what is your opinion of the yer
dict?"
81 am afraid + shall have to refer you to
Mr.. Forrest, my attorney, for an answer to
that question"
'Are you disappointed at the verdictl"
"Well, / suppose no man regards the YER
dict of life Imprisonment with any partic-
ular enthusiasm" said the ex-detective
grimly, but really, gentlemen, 1 must de-
cline to be interviewed"
With this sentence Coughlin retired,
pleasantly bowling good evening as he went
auiIo 70 oil hot
in mood very nearly of elation, and to
Dan Coughlin, at least, the verdict was
source of self-congratulation. His habitual
mood during his confinement of the past
six months has been one of taciturnity,
but this evening a bright smile illumined
his face, and his step was light and buoy
ant.
In the boys department, Martin Burke
was found, walking up and down and smok-
Ing cigar He seemed entirely composed
and good natured as he greeted the Asso-
ciated Press reporter.
"Well, Burke, what do you think of it?n
"Oh, l am not saying word" said the
young Irishman. 1.-THE Chicago papers
have had enough to say about me already,
and don't want to give any excuse for
any more"
'But don't include US in your gen.
eral damnation.''
III Eot uannlnS lne papers," said
Burke. ''I've nothing them, but guess
they can get along without me-"
All efforts to extract any comments from
Burke on the verdict was in vain. He ex-
pressed himself as being delighted to con-
verse on that he termed 'social topics"
Bnt on this other business, as he called it,
with jerk Of his head toward the court
room, he was as dumb as an oyster.
After the jury was discharged this after
noon, and while the gentlemen We're wait
ing for their certificates, crowd of re-
porters besieged them for information
about what had transpired in the jury
room and the cause of the long delay. at
is no use," said Juror Marion, tive agreed
not to say anything. From what l have
heard since got back into the world, the
newspapers have been doing some pretty
tell lying. Juror Culver was not the cause
Of the delay, aud there wasn't any unpleas-
or any knock down as one paper
has declared" Juror North was angry at
the statement mentioned above. 1.-The
man who wrote the story of row in the
Jury room ought to be punished, said he.
There was no trouble at all, and we
passed the time as pleasantly as we could
under the circumstances.
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