The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-11

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THESTRIKING SCENES
She Receives the Hearty Con-
.gratulations of All.
THE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE
Amanda Olson is free.

Alnduud OlSO0 Is Tree.
There are none who will regret the
action of the jury save those who, had
they their just deserts, would have met
the same fate as Frank Hall.
The trial, unlike most similar cases, has
been more Of moral lesson than other
WISE
Fathers of young girls, while they will
that seemed to compel Miss Olson to take
the life of Hall. viii be pleased TO know
that the jury has set its seal of condenna-
ton upon the seducer and the libertine
and that the act of the jury is backed up
by public sentiment-by all save those
whose moral natures have not been entirely
parslyzed.
Although yesterday was the sixth day,
public interest had not waned, and when
the Third district court resumed its ses-
sion in the morning, the room was crowded
with men and women, many of whom had
been in attendance since the beginning of
the trial. The jurors looked somewhat
jaded, and their appearance indicated. that
they fully realized the grave responsibility
resting upon them.
Miss Olson was on hand early, and sat
quietly between her mother and Judge
Powers. AS usual, she was heavily yelled.
vARIAN WORKS HARD.
Shortly after 10 O'Clock, Mr.. Varian re-
sumed his address to the jury. He at once
attacked the theory of insanity, and urged
that al the circumstances preceding the
no ID.
perfectly sane. After she had done the
deed and looked down into the dead face of
Frank Hall she was stung with a feeling of
remorse, and il was no wonder that she
moaned and wrpng her hands and acted in
the manner described by the witnesses.
Upon the state of facts assumed by Judge
Powers, the physician said Miss Olson
showed symptoms of melancholia out many
OF the facts assumed in the Hypothetical
question of the defense were NOT proven
On the state of facts assumed by the
prosecution, those same physicians testified
that Miss Olson was sane Could anyone
doubt that in al the preliminary arrange
ments made by Amanda Olson before She
killed Frank Hall she had the power to
control her acts. The true cause of the
woman's act was her love for Hall and
her jealousy of Mrs. Hart. 1t was a very
dramatic scene which Judge Power;
wrought out when he said Miss Olson
would accept no compromise at the hands Of
the jury, and demanded averdict OF guilty OF
murder or an acquittal. The jury must not
be mlsled by this argument. 1t was a
shocking theory. Amanda Olson stood be-
fore the jury and the public, trying to JUS
tfy herself Tor her act. She considered
herself a wrong9d woman She sat in
judgment upon Han, condemned him and
"a &c. l.,
story has to be taken with great caution
Hall was lying in his grave and his lips
were sealed. He had been hurled into eter-
nifty with all his unforgiven sins upon his
head Upon her claim that she had been
betrayed, had been built up mountain of
sympathy for Miss Olson. If il was all
true, there was no Justification for the
crime. She knew that she was net author
lied to take the law into her own hands
and kill Hail upon sight. She was driven
to Kill him by the passions of jealousy and
love. She could not bear to think that an
other woman had taken her lover She
had been scorned and pushed aside by
Hall, and the love she gave him had been
trampled under foot She determined
then and there to avenge herself by kill
ing him. 1t was not because he had
wronged her, but because she realized that
he was lost to her. Would the Jury en-
dorse her action from some socaled chi
valric notion about the tenderness due to
women 0y manl This was the temple of
justice, and regardless of outside senti-
ment and pressure, justice should be done
AS the law officer OF this territory. he
wished to protest against that pressure
and sentiment which came from he knew
not where, to drive this Jury into returning
a verdict of acquittal He did not wish to
appeal to their passions, preiudices or
sentiment, and he trusted they would con-
slider the case upon the evidence. They
would consider first whether the plea of
insanity should not be brushed aside. and
then consider whether there was any iusti-
fcation In the law for the killing.
JUDGE zANE's CHARGE.
Judge Zane then proceeded to charge the
jury, which was listened to with breath
less attention by all present. The charge
was as follows:
'GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: The indict-
ment read to you at the commencement of
the trial accuses the defendant of the crime
Of murder; tnat at the time and place stated
In the indictment, and under the circum-
/ stances stated therein she feloniouslv. nm
lawfully, and OF her malice aIorethought,
killed and murdered Frank C.. Hall. The
Jaw, so far as | deem it necessary to charge
! you, is:
Murder is the unlawful killing of q
human being, with malice aforethought.
That such malice may be expressed or i'm
piled. That IL is expressed when there is
manifested deliberate intention unlaw.
fully TO take away the life of fellow
! creature. That ii is implied when no con.
siderable provocation appears, or when the
circumstances attending the killing show
an abandoned and malignant heart. That
every murder perpetrated by any kind OF
| WnIul, deIlberate, malicious and pre-
meditated killing, or perpetrated in the
commission of any act greatly dangerous tc
the lives of others, and evidencing a de
PRAYED mind, regardless of human life, is
murder IN the first degree: and any other
unlawful, Intentional, wiltul and malicious
homicide IS murder in the second degree
That the elaboration essential to murder
In the first degree is sufficient, if the person
killing has time and opportunity to, anC
does form distinct intention to kill. The
delloeratlon must be on the killing De
liberation on the intention, after it is dis
tlnctly formed, is not necessary.
1.-The court further charges you thai
manslaughter is the unlawful killing of {
human being with malice. 1t is of two
Kinds; hrst, voluntary, upon sudden
quarrel or heat of passion; second, inyolun
tary, In the commission of an unlawful &C
not amounting to felony, or in the commits
sion OF lawful act which might produce
death In an unlawful manner, or withou
due caution and circumspection.
"a sudden provocation at the time of the
killing, given by the person slain to the
slayer, apparently sufficient to overcome
the discretion of reasonable person, i,
necessary to reduce lawful homicide from
murder to manslaughters
1.-THE court further charges you that the
law presumes the defendant innocent unit