St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-19
AINECK IN JEOPARDY.
The Jury in the Blatz Mur-
der Case Out All
Night,
And the Life of the Woman
Homicide Hangs in the
Balance.
Closing Scenes in the Trial
of the Very Revolving MUIR
der Case.
Able Efforts Of the Attorneys
and Judicial Charge Of
the Co urt.

At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
notoriously revolving Clara Blatz mur-
der case went to the tired. worn and
weary jury. At 10 in the morning the
court room was crowded with anxious
and curious spectators, who had gath
cred to witness the finale of the cele-
brated case. The prisoner looked cheer
full and Indifferent, and conversed freely
with the old ex-matron Of the Jail. The
testimony was supposed to have
all been in on Monday, but as
the judge mounted the bench Attor-
ney Warner asked permission to
place witness upon the stand to
testify in rebuttal to states rebuttal
given on Monday. Attorney Egan OBJ
jected to this, as an attempt to prOlOng
the case unnecessarily, and stated that
the defense had ample time to arrange
it's testimony in season. The court sus-
tanned Mr.. Egan, who then addressed
the jury with his final argument. His
argument was a strong logical and very
reasonable address upon the entire evi-
dence of the case. The jury were in
tensily interested, and it was soon ev-
ident that the speaker had their SYM
pathy. The attorney spoke from 1920 to
2;35, during which time he reviewed the
history OF the case in mastery manner
and flooded the Substructure of the de-
fense's plea of insanity out upon the sea
of eloquent wreckage. At 2:35 the at
torney for the defense opened his plea
for the prisoner in such touching terms
as to cause the latter to sob piteously
until the eX-matrOn came to her relief
and succeeded in comforting her. Mr..
Warner very boldly stepped upon new
and unexpected ground, when he
STARTLED BOTH COURT AND JURY
with the assured statement that the
state had seriously omitted to introduce
the best evidence and proof that it was
really the prisoner who shot DOherty.
Mr.. Warner desired to know where the
bullet was, and why it was not pro-
duced in evidence. "It may not fit this
pistol,'' said he, land there is no posi-
tive proof here that this defendant did
actually shoot the deceased, and we
have made no such admission. It
may have been the little boy
who has not been found, that did the
shooting and why has the state at
tempted to prove the guilt of this
fsenans relying solely upon alleged
SViNAuOSA LILO ni7AO pCl tduCO
the crowd as an entirety, and the many
legal luminaries ''did think bit," to
conceive the outcome of such bold
assertion. Mr.. Warner claimed
that the state should have made
a proof of the killing, under
section $50 of the penal code,
Mr.. Warren claimed further that no one
ever testified that Clara Blatz fired the
fatal shot. The defense went upon this
plane OF apparently groundless argu-
ment until thej states attorney
called halt at something personal Mr..
Warren suggested to the jury concern
ing Mr.. Egan. The defense then read
aloud some of Doherty's letters, and
based further argument upon their SUBJ
ject matter as to the effect they
would have upon the mind of the
defendant, coupled with the unnatural
acts of Doherty and herself. He then
went into series of denunciatiOns of
the deceased's character and his brutal
ity toward the prisoner. At 4:3O, Mr..
Warner having concluded his remarks,
Judge Kelly charged the jury in ex-
plicit terms, while the prisoner sat
calm and self possessed, looking search
ingly upon the face of each individual
member of the jury. The following
are some of the extracts OF the courts
charge: