The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-01
He GOT SEVEN YEARS.
OLIVER SACKETT FOUND GUILTY
OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.
OFFICER o'HARE WINS OUT.
The Jury After Having Been out over
Four Hours Finds That Sackett Was
the Man who Shot at o'Hare
to Kill Him.

The jury in the case of the State of
Wisconsin vs.. 0. Fl. P. Sackett, came
in after having deliberated over four
hours, at 2:40 this afternoon and pro-
nounced the defendant guilty as
charged in the information.
Judge Fish at once discharged the
jury and Attorney Cowell for the pris
oner, moved for new trial, which was
overruled. The court at once. called up
Sackett and after telling him he had
fair and impartial trial and that he
would give him the advantage of the
only mitigating circumstance, that OF
having hit no one whom he shot, and
would sentence him to but seven and
one-half years at hard labor at
Waupun.
The prisoner was at once remanded
to jail.
The state wove its web about the
footsteps of Oliver Fl. P. Sackett Thurs
day afternoon, and finished before
court adjourned as did also the de-
fense
After this paper went to press John
Muenzer was called to the stand. He
said he was barber, and had shaved
Sackett the Saturday afternoon prior
to the commission of the alleged as
sault upon O'Hare.
He was followed by Ed. Morrissey
and Alonzo McKinstey, both of Elk
horn, swore to the prisoners identity,
while Charles Swartz, prisoner IN the
jail, said he was witness to the pass
ing back and forth of dozen or more
notes written by Sackett and Miller
and passed through the hole in the
floor to the upper tier Of cells. That
completed the case of the state.
The defense sailed ID under the as
sumption that the man under arrest
was the wrong man. That the fellow
the state wanted was Charles Sackett
and not the defendant Mr.. Kelley,
the attorney for Sackett, called William
Van Dyne, Mrs. j. NJ. Sackett, Mrs.
Clarinda Oles, Mrs. Mary Cross and j.
NJ. Sackett to swear to alibis. These
witnesses made rather a bad failure OF
that scheme, however, for three OF
them sWore that Sackett was at three
different places, several blocks distant
from each other in Chicago at one and
the same time, namely at Z o'clock
Sunday morning, July 26. All agreed,
however, that Sackett was in Chicago
at that hour. He might have been
easily enough after leaving here, for
the deed was committed here at a.
m. and Sackett might have driven to
Waukegan and taken the a. N. train
for Chicago, and reached there by 3
o'clock and then had an hour to spare.
But the state proved by Thomas Han
sen that Sackett was here Sunday fore
noon for he saw him, and Mat Brady
swore to seeing him in the afternoon,
at which time he was inquiring if there
was any way in which he could get in
to see Miller, who was in jail.
The forenoon was mostly spent by
the attorneys in presenting the case to
the jury. The arguments were finished
by about 1915, when Judge Fish de-
livered his charge, and the jury retired
in charge of Deputy Sheriff Smith.
at about 1920 o'clock rap came on
the jury room door. The jury filed
into the court room and Judge Fish
inquired if any information was wanted.
The foreman arose and enQuired what
the sentence was to be upon Sackett.
The court informed the jury that that
was a matter immaterial to them, that
1t was left to the courts discretion.
All they had to do was to say whether
the prisoner was guilty or innocent.
The jury then retired again.
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