St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26

ouu ecu uIS uIOuty DdCh AS tO WlleIe
Hiram was killed, no pistol shots were
heard near the grave. Was not he
killed where the pistol was fired. and
the report OF the pistol heard? If these
shots were not fired in his carriage, who
discharged them? They would have
you think that Hiram went over there
to accommodate Isaac, aud got out of
the carriage and stood up TO have him
kill him.
They say he was killed in a struggle.
Do you believe Hiram would have
driven five miles on tnat lonely road
with that man and then got out and had
fight in which he was killed? There
was an appearance of the body having
been dragged thirty feet from the car
rlage and put into its new-made grave.
The sleeve button like Isaac's Shows
Isaac at the grave, and the tell-tale
story of his shoes and rubberS shows
the very color of the mud III the grave.
You must be satisfied of the prisoners
guilt from the facts before you. OF
most of these facts there can be no
controversy. Does Isaac'S char
acter, his conduct and talk with
his brother. his conduct after
his brothers death, convince you be-
yond reasonable doubts, such as men
apply to their own brothers, that Isaac
got his brother by fraud and deception
from Boston to Rochester, and at Roch-
grave in Maine? If they do, your course
is to find verdict as your
Judgment directs. Do your duty
and the public and every law
abiding citizen will be satisfied.
The argument was finished at 5:15,
and after recess of ten minutes Judge
Doe charged the jury. He defined the
law bearing upon the case in very
clear manner. The first count, he said,
being charge that Hiram was killed
in New Hampshire, it is necessary to
carefully weigh all evidence as to which
side of the line the murder was commit
ted. If the jury believes that he was
killed in Maine, then the prisoner could
count; if he was found guilty
upon the second count, then it
must be clearly shown that
Isaac had an accOmplice in Rochester,
n. II. The chief justice further stated
that if murder had been committed, it
was murder in the first degree. He was
not aware of any evidence of any other
murder. In this case there was no evil
dence of law. The judges were not
here to try the case, but to see that it
was fairly tried by the jury, who had
nothing but simple question of facts
TO decide. The concluding portion of
the judges charge was devoted to an
appeal to the jury to measure the evil
dence carefully and without fear or ia
vOr. AT his conclusion the case was
given to the jury and the court room
was cleared.
The original indictment contained
three counts. The jury was charged
upon two only. This was owing to pri-
vate conference between judge and
counsel last evening, in which it was
agreed to drop the count charging Isaac
with being an accessory before the fact
to murder in New Hampshire. This
was practically covered by the count
charging willful murder, because under
New Hampshire laws an accessory be-
fore the fact to a murder is a principal.
Another reason was that from the evil
dence, if the jury believed the murder
was committed in New Hampshire. they
would without doubt find that Isaac
committed it.
At 7:30 p. m. one of the deputy sher-
lffS went to Chief Justice Does room in
the American house, and his passage
through the hall was the signal for
rush of newspaper men to the court
house. The court room was being light
ed and few figures could be seen in
the gloom when the two judges took
their seats on the bench. The jury filed
in at 7:40, one hour and fifty-one min
utes after they left their seats. and the
clerk called the roll, the sheriff making
the count. The foreman then rose, and
in answer to Judge Does question,
Have you agreed upon verdict?' said
eve have"
What say you, gentlemen of the
jury" said Judge Doe, ''as to the first
count? DO you find him guilty or not
guity?''
eve find him guilty." was the an
swer.
'Of what degree of murder?"
"Of murder in the first degree"
Attorney General Barnard immedi-
ately moved for sentence.
After moments consultation with
Judge Bingham, Judge Doe wrote the
who then read it as follows:
Isaac B. Sawtelle, the sentence of
the law, you being found guilty of mur-
der in the first degree, is that you be
imprisoned in the state prison at Con-
cord until the first Tuesday of January,
1892, and that you then he hanged by
the neck until dead"
Judge Doe then announced that the
prisoner would be remanded, and eX-
cused the jury from further duty this
term. In discharging the jury, the
chief justice addressed to them a few
words of commendation, in which he
said:
$50 far as the court can say, you have
given all the attention to the case that
any men could give"
The jury then left the court by the
nearest door, and the prisoner was con-
Quoted out by a door in the rear of the
court room. The scene was impressive
in the extreme. The room was dimly
lighted and partly filled with a crowd
that gradually increased. but did not
more than half fill the seats before the
whole ceremony, which occupied less
than ten minutes, was finished. The
prisoner was pale, but did not make
motion, except that he respectfully
turned his head toward the clerk when
the sentence was read, and there was
nothing else in his manner to indicate
that he had just been sentenced to
death.
Defendants counsel have taken three
exceptions:
First-To the testimony of Marion
SaWtelle; second, to the admission Of
the copy of Jeannette's telegram to
Isaac; third, the testimony of witness
in regard to the amount of travel on the
Marsh road. They will be raised on
briefs, and arguments will be given be-
fore the court, whose decision will be
rendered the day appointed for the exc
cution of the sentence.
WRECKED HER MIND.
A Girl Crazed by Charge Against
Her Father.
COLUMBUS. Ind, Dec. 25.-Strange
circumstances developed last night re-
garding the sudden insanity and death
of Miss Bertha Park, handsom school
teacher eighteen years old. Her moth
er, Mrs. Park, has divulged the secret
confided to her by the daughter on the
day when the symptoms of the latter's
disturbed mental condition were first
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