The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-10-10
TWO FOUND GUILTY
PERREN AND BLOCH GET THE
FORGE OF THE VERDICT.
JACOBSON IS LEFT TO HIS WILL
The Verdict Returned in Eight Hours
and Forty Minutes.-The Intense
Excitement Which Was Present
In the Court Room.

D1OCu HAVE D0Ou 1OuHQs SulIGN VI Uu6
charge of conspiracy to defraud insur-
ers and of arson and Louis jacobson
has been found not guilty. The jury re-
turned with this verdict Thursday morn
ing at12:15 o'clock. Theyerdict was read
to the. assembled. audience amid the
most intense excitement, and at once
Attorneys Foster and Cavanagh moved
| for new trial, and Attorney Seaman
moved for the dismissal Of jacobson.
The first two motions were entered Of
record, but the third was granted and
Louis jacobson was allowed to leave
the court room free man. Then At
torney CaVanagh moved that the bail
money put up for the appearance Of
| the defendants be returned to the own
| ers and this motion was also granted.
Judge Fish fixed o'clock this morn
ing as the hour at which to hear the
arguments for new trial.
| a#a 1i curt Room Scenes.
| The scenes in the court room We'd
nesday night while the great crowd was
waiting for a verdict almost surpasses
description. A large number of those
who had seen the jury retire felt so GER
tain that verdict would be reached
within few moments that they re-
fused to leave their seats and remained
righC through, some without any lunch
Oh. supper. to await the finding OF the
fate of the three men whose liberty
they had watched in it's jeopardy the
past three weeks. Others with more
gnawing maWs sent out for lunches and
ate them in the court room. There
seemed to be but very few who left
for their homes to get their evening
meal Everybody was anxious. All
was one scene of eXcitment and antici-
patton, One might say OF Impotence.
Only one topic was under discussion.
The state of mind in the court room
preoluded every other What will the
verdict be? was the all absorbing ques-
ton. Defendants Jacobson and Bloch
staid and anXiously talked with knots
of friends. These were awful hours of
suspense for them. Defendant Perren
departed with his wife and during the
rest of the night while the Jury was out
he did not appear in the court room.
1t had been announced in the papers
that evening that the verdict as soon
as arrived at would be announced from
the stage at the opera house. This at
tracted fair audience to see the
Shadows Of Great City," but even
here it was apparent that little real in
terest was being taken in the play.
Between the acts the inquiry: What
will the verdict be? seemed to stand
out in greater relief than the music
furnished by the orchestra, with no dis
paragement intended to the music.
The verdict did not arrive before the
play was over, so the entire audience
made straight for the court house and
there waited with the rest.
There seemed to be trouble in the
jury room. The jury had retired at
1886 p. m. No signal was heard from
them until 6 o'clock and the court or
dered that they be given their supper
They were taken as they had been be-
fore in the Charge of two bailiffs to the
Grant house and fed. They returned
to the court house in about an hour and
began again the long tussle with the
problem before them. Again all was
silence. From the court room nothing
could be seen of the jurors. There was
only the closed door and faithful Bailiff
Harkins with key in hand sitting pa
tiently beside it. On the outside clus-
tiers of people stood about on the oppo-
site side Of the street and watched as
far as possible every motion made by the
jurors through the windows, which
were not provided with curtains. They
saw Joseph Dalton elected the foreman
and then saw one after another of the
jurors tear off their coats and get down
to arguments with which to convince
their fellows. Then balloting followed.
One ballot after another came up.
There seemed to be indecision every
time for hours. After each ballot the
small papers we're thrown upon the
floor and another taken. Each count
seemed TO be unsatisfactory and they
would return with apparently renewed
determination to more ballots. This
continued until about $50 o'clock with
occasional intermissions for discussion.
Then there seemed to be long discus
sion and the jury left the room.
Inside the court room the jury filed
into the chairs they had occupied for
the past three weeks. They asked for
more enlightenment upon some of the
testimony and asked that the reporter
read the testimony of Brick and Pagel
to them. This seemed to settle the
point about which there had been so
much discussion and balloting. Was
Perren at the factory when Robinson
and Rosenow arrived was the point of
'wrangle apparently. After this testi-
mony had been read they returned
again TO their room and were locked IN,