Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-03-17
SHE IS NOT GUILTY
SO Say the Jury in tho Case o.
the United States Against
Alice Joy.
A Verdict of Acquittal After q De
liberation of Just Four Hours
Duration.
The Embezzlement Case Agains,
George Earl, Postmaster at
Hull, Now On.

Hull, Now On.
From Friday's Daily.]
United States Court.
The United States court opened yes
terday morning with the continuation Of
the Alice Joy case, Attorney Glaspell
making his plea tor the defendant. His
address to the jury was a review of the
evidence, an attempt to impeach the tes.
timony of the main witness for the prose-
cution by dwelling upon the language
alleged by the witnesses for the defense to
have been used by him upon the occasion
OF the arrest of the defendant, and an
effort to inspire a doubt in the minds of
the jurymen, first, by stating that the
letters might never have been placed in
the pouch as stated by Mr.. Clement;
second, that the driver, Fryckland, had
the opportunity and might have alb
stracted them, and third, that they
might have been taken by some one in
the Wales office, aside from the Defend
ant.
Attorney Miller closed with an excel
lent argument for the prosecution, and
at a few minutes before IL Judge Thomas
delivered his charge to the jury. This
was fair, impartial, an exposition of the
statute and laws bearing upon the case,
instructions as to the credence to be
given the evidence in the case, and
shortly after noon the jury retired for
elaboration. They were out until just
4:O5, when it was announced they had
arrived at q verdict. Amid an unbroken
stiffness and subdued yet noticeable OK.
element, the twelve jurymen fled in
and took seats. The nervous
strain upon the defendent and
relatives began to tell, and
~breathlessly they listened as the CLERK
read, "We the jurymen find the defend
ant not guilty as charged" The jury
and the defendant were at nee dis
charged, and the latter passed out o.
the court room, being congratulated b,
friends as she made her exit.
THE HULL POsTOFFICE CASE
was the next called, and a jury was i'm
paneled to try this. In this case it il
alleged by the government that a lette
was sent from the postofice at Hine
S. D., to one Hattie Campbell at West
field, N. D, containing s3O.25. This let
ter was taken by the carrier on Satur
day, and on it's way to Westield, the mai
went through the Hull Office, where i
was looked over by the postmaster, il
the same manner as at the Wales ofic
in the preceding case. The letter, afte
! the mail went through the Hull Office
. failed to turn up at West6eld, nor did j
! until the next trip of the carrier, the infer
! ence being that it had been held over b
the Hull postmaster, George Earl. Whe
!, the letter was at last delivered it was il
! a soiled condition, looking as though i
= had been tempered with, and the enclc
sure of $30.25 was missing.
A number of witnesses were examiner
among them the mail-carrier, who swor
the letter had come into his possessio
from the aine postoffice on Saturda,
, The postmaster at Thule, who swore
= went through his Office on Saturday, an
:, the complainant, Hattie Campbell, he
= brother-in-law, John DeMott, and til
. postmaster at Westfield, who testitie
: the letter had not come into the Yves
field Office until Monday, and the
minus the enclosure, showing it muI
: have been detained somewhere en- rout
:. Court adjourned shortly after 4 o'cloc
" until this morning. The United State
has another case against Earl, shoul
. he he acquitted of this charge, in whic
. it is claimed he abstracted a decoy lettt
containing marked money, and whic
70 was afterward traced to a relative
:. Earl's.
From Saturdays Daily.I
The Hull postofice case was continue
% yesterday morning upon the conventio
y Of the United States court. ASome mo
70 testimony was taken in the matter, an
D. the prosecution summed up, making
70 complete and concise exposition Of Il
. facts in the case, the mailing Of ithe le
10 ter, it's passage through the Thule ofic
d it's entrance into the Hull Office, and il
y subsequent failure to make it's exit 9
w. the same day, and it's failure to apes
D. at the office Of its destination until II
d. Monday following, and then minus tt
% enclosure of $3O.25, making in all quite
TX chain of evidence against the defendan
10 Mr.. Newton for the defense the
o. made his plea, which was Of som
y thing the same order as TIL
ply Of Tho defanaa in tha nracadir