Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-21

| and the verdict was received with salts
| faction by large majority.
| AS soon as the verdict was rendered
the deputies clustered around the pris-
oners and effectually prevented any at
| tempts at communication with them.
Chief Hubbard stood at the rear of the
| deputies with several officers in citi-
zens' clothes, whilst Sheriff Matson
stood at the right-hand corner of the
bench, close by the Judge.
| Attorney Forrest Immediately entered
motion for a new trial for Burke and
| Coughlin, and Attorney Donahue did
the same for OSullivan and Kunze.
| The court then thanked the jury, and,
| turning to the States attorney, said:
''The prisoner Beggs, of course, will
stand discharged, as there is nothing
against him, believe. The Jury will
also be discharged, and the prisoners
remanded to Jail"
Before the prisoners are remanded,"
said Mr.. Forrest, jumping from his seat,
| Il desire to make motion. / thought
| would wait until the jury was dis
charged before moving to have a day
|
new trial"
At this stage of the proceedings the
defendant Kunze was loud in his mani
| festations of grief, while tears flowed
copiously down his cheeks. Between
his sobs and cries he was heard to say:
81 am innocent, God knows, of this
never was at Lakeview. If | have
got to suffer three years imprisonment
for this it is shame. Longenecker got
witnesses to swear that | was in Lake
view-Schuettler."
/ At this point Kunze's grief became
too much for utterance, and his words
were indistinct.
After long argument, Judge McCon-
nell set January 10 as the day for filing
a motion for new trial, the matter to
be considered by the court on the 18th
nounced that the court would stand ad-
journed until January IS, and left the
bench.
1t is stated tonight on undoubted au-
thority that but for the fear Of Juror
Culver going mad in the jury room the
other eleven would have stood out in
definitely for hanging Coughlin, Burke
and O'Sullivan, twenty-one years i'm
prisonment for Beggs and fourteen
years for Kunze.
After the jury had gone Beggs held
an agreeable legee with the newspaper
men of his acquaintance. To the sur
prise of all of them he said he did not
expect the verdict as rendered. He
looked for disagreement. He said he
could make no explanation of his rea-
sons now further than to say that he
was possessed of information which led
him to believe that the jury would
divide on the question of guilt, and that
he would explain further some time in
the future.
After the date for which argument for
a new trial will be made was fixed, the
prisoners, including Beggs, were hurried
from the courtroom TO the Jail. They
were surrounded by detectives and
bailiffs every man of whom was thor
oughly armed. AS Coughlin passed
along he sighted some old friends in the
crowd that was staring at him in a curl
Gus way, and he saluted them with a
wave of the hand. AS prisoners and
guards tramped noisily along, the big
steel gate of the jail swung open and
the entire party passed inside. Then
| the gate was closed with a loud clang
and the prisone 8 were shut from the
general view. Burke was hurried to
the boys department; Coughlin, O'Sulli-
van and Kunze were 6aken to their cells
| and locked up.
Beggs paid brief visit to his cell to
gather up some trinkets he had there,
and then he hurried down to the office,
where he signed book placed before
him. A moment later he was literally
in the hands of his friends. AS Beggs
crossed the Jail yard a little man ran
forward to meet him. The greeting
that was exchanged was very ELUSIVE.
The little man was VIM. Murphy, father
of the girl who first told the story Of
DR.. Cronin's presence in North Clark
street grip car, when in fact his muir
derers were packing his mutilated body
in the big trunk. Murphy caught
Beggs' arm and hurried him through
the waiting, gaping crowd to a carriage
| JndD was SUdnulnp dJ IDe CurU Ol bHo
walk. Harry Jordon, whose connection
with the defense movement has always
been prominent, helped Beggs into the
carriage. Lawyer Foster took seat
beside his client and then Murphy and
Jordon and Lawyer Ames piled in in
discriminatory and signaled the driver
to hurry away
The entire party proceeded to the
Office of Murphy & Ames, on Clark
street. A large delegation of Irishmen
was there to meet them, and the es-
capped man held another levee for near
ly two hours, when his wife came in
and informed him that he was due at
| home.
Several of the jurors were interviewed
at their homes this evening. But all OF
| them declined to be interviewed further
than to say that all talk of personal en-
counters in the jury-room was the
merest bosh. A resolution was passed
to disclose nothing that had transpired
in the jury-room. One juror said the
reason for so long delay in reaching a