Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-16
FRED Is NOT SANE
30 Decide the Jurors Who
Tried the Leonard Case.
QUESTIONED As TO BECKER
sevss4l Juzsss Say lie Approached rhsm.
Closing s<snss "A shs Lsoa>1t TRIAL
WIN Probably Appeal

The Leonard eass - ~ an end. and
the jury mas decided that Fred IL.
Leonard q nsntAlIy saeap4bls IT car
ing for biz property or himself. Tie
Jury dssFed - como IA ~ o'clock,
bat it Vas so before Judge AdAs AZ
rlssa ia tie court yoom- The attoF-
nsys and half doz>u reporters were
me only auditors tbs jury spent their
AT fsv moments Of eonnnsmsnt sng
lug hymns. The verdict. which WA
written. vas that Fred xzs mentally
incompetent 70 care Tor himself.
os~&sisssa ths Jafy.
There wzs = moment's pause, and
Judge Adsst sssas NOW that the ver-
Act 10 IL, gentlemen or the jury. wish
- in4u5rr ahoot certain matter that
s4s mentioned bef0re You retired IL
8 ia regard 90 = person who attempted
- converse with you. and offered 10
IeaI you 10 G. CARS aud drinks. l un-
9efst4n4 one or iaore of you were APP
1ro4caed. / wash 10 know tbs fscts.
TIE jurors looked a. each ctiisr.
zach s.ss.sDg for tlse others 10 SPEAK
3rst. Juror stllNsli aEoss ilru and
a.d; Due evening last week l left
The building ~ company with Two
3tner Jurors We started 10 30 down
kent street. when The man arrested ~
me court rootn last nlShs joined Us
aud made some remark about tue
~s&ther tie then asked II was on
lie Jury. I told him ! wss, and ne re-
narxea that u tx0n,ssed u be long
rial. / sa.a yes. ~ taGt time se bad
reached tae fifst $4,000. ~ni 40 ssksd
nls Va 10 have G gar with nm j re-
Piled that ! did snOSe. thought
e strange taat = total stranger should
oder 10 treat ME -eyefal other
iur - sad they had been talked To ny
.i4s same slan, aud he had offered la
treat then, to cigars. 10 Juror Rector
h salG AZ Que time. You vail not
conysci Toe poor voy." referring to
tsed.
VIII ss~ Appealed
The Jury ~As discharged. but will
meet again at 0 o'clock today, wien
he luage. Jury and al ihr court othe-
70 Aili - Photographed. The trial Of
ne ease be gan three weeks ago last
ionca4, and the Jury was out twenty
eight hours considering the case. IL 10
tatrd ,hat on the first ballot they
ttO&t4& ~ ~ k&fUl va 0ttfttbA kaes
.Ted ga. incapable. In q short time
hat say until few moments before
the jury came "a. The ease will TN
dorbtedly 10 appealed.
AZ o'clock Fast ntxht the Jury in the
Leonard case was stlll out 50 Was the
Dsn VINO - said 10 have attempted to
fans2eT with the Jury. When court
- "a uArnna kAnLHy
was rot TO De found and Judge Adsst
spsmed ately issued q bench warrant.
All day officers were searching for
Becker, bn, could not fad him. IL will
be remembered that Becker gave his
home as Bay City. There Is . case in
the supreme court records which may
snow something OF the past record Of
this man.
Horace Beeker's Record.
In the Forty-eightn Michigan, page
Forty three, OF tue Michigan supreme
court report, Is found the decision in .
cs,s appealed from Bay county. In
1851 Horace Becker was convicted In
Bay city OF robbing man named Hen
teFson OF 900. IL appears from the
decision that Becker represented him.
elf to Dc a deputy sheriff and, becom-
ng acquainted with Henderson, a
Stranger ia town, took him on . round
Of the city sights by gas light. About
O'Clock ne grabbed Henderson's pock-
stbook containing 500 and skipped.
lie was arrested and convicted and the
supreme court affirmed the conviction
add Becker served term in Jackson.
Not the same Man.
Attorney v. z. Allen says the Horace
Beexer referred to in the reports Is not
lhe same man as the ono now wanted
here on the bench warrant
J. :. Giidden, manager Of the Happy
Home. says Becker Is not connected
with the club. az he stated on wednes-
lay, aud never has been, excep, as an