The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-09-25
JURY OUT ONLY FIVE MINUTES
Scenes in the Cour1-Trying 10 Break Down the
Evidenee-Prisoner Heard the Verdict Like
Stoie-His Wife and Family Affeeted-Wit-
nessss Threateued-To be Sentenced

The jury was out a scant five min
utes before returning a verdict of
guilty as charged" AT the request
of the defendants attorney the jury
was polled and each man responded
that that was his verdict Notice OF
a motion for a new trial was made.
Monday morning next was set for pro-
nouncing sentence.
The jury received the thanks of the
Court for its attentive service. 1t was
discharged and the trial involving
most remarkable criminal undertaking
was at an end.
There was no scene, no demonstra>
ton. The defendant betrayed the effect
on him only by tense drawing of the
muscles of the face and an increased
pallor of the countenance. He had
feared the verdict and was prepared
for it. Not word or a sound escaped
him He sat stolidly in his chair.
Mrs Winthrop. who had sat beside
him all morning. was led by Attorney
Outflow into the Judges chamber be-
fore the jury returned with its YER
dict She must have felt, however,
from the brief time the jurors were
out and from their serious faces as
they filed past her from the juryroom
that their was no hope OF an acQuittal.
II was her husband who first told
her the crushing truth He was taken
into the Judges chamber by the Sher~
if and a most affecting scene ensued.
Mrs. Winthrop threw herself in her
husbands arms and wept. She was
not historical. but she seemed incon-
solable.
Her mother. Mrs Brooks. who has
been steadily in attendance at the trial
for the last few days. came into the
room with the two Winthrop boys,
who are TOO young TO realize what has
befallen them. But they knew by
their mothers tears and their grand
mothers distress and by their fathers
evident deep feeling, though he shed
no tears. that something appalling had
happened and they chung TO their par
ents, weeping bitterly.
IT was some time before the Sheriff
in the performance of his duty could
bring himself to separate the convicted
husband from his distracted wife and
take him back TO the County Jail. 1t
was longer still before Mrs. Winthrop
was composed enough to be led by her
mother TO her home.
Immediately after the jury was dis
charged Mrs. Brooks advanced TO the
jury-boX and asked which was Mr..
Mccullough. She engaged him in ear
nest conversation for two or three min
utes. quietly, not loud or demonstra-
lively. What she said was heard by
him alone He said afterward that
what she said was what a heart broken
woman who believed in the innocence
Of her daughters husband might be
expected TO say in expostulation and
regret but more than that he felt that
delicacy forbade him TO speak of.
After court was adjourned Mrs.
Winthrop followed Mrs Dunton, the
woman from whom Winthrop rented
the California street cottage, from the
bodily harm. Mrs Dunton became
alarmed and went 10 the office of the
Chief OF Police for protection. Police
man Samuels was detailed 10 escort
her TO her home.
The proceedings OF the court, aside
from the verdict and the Incidents
clustering around il were not different
in character from those OF the other
days Of the trial The courtroom
was filed as il mas been every day, q
large proportion OF those present
being persons who have been in at
tendance every day. Near the prose
cutting witness was seated Captain
Curtis. 10 whom CampbelIs friends
turned when his disappearance was
first known. Near him was ". H.
Campbell, James Campbell's bOyhoOd
friend, with whom he was talking OF
the old boyhood days in Scotland when
Winthrop called him aside and started
with him 10 the fateful cottage. James
StreetOn, another old friend who had
called al the Occidental Hotel on that
significant Monday 10 bid James Camp
bell good-by, was there, also Cecil
Brown, Campbell's agent and attorney.
With Winthrop were his wife and
children. his wife's mother and E. T.
Hicks, who has been constantly help
ing 70 secure evidence for the defense
since Winthrop's arrest
Besides these and the lawyers and
the court and police officials there in
the discharge OF their duty, those in at
tendance were the motley courtroom
crowd, drawn through motives Of curl
osity and interest in some of those
chiefly concerned in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Black oc-
eupied little more than an hour in
his closing argument II was a clear,
earnest discussion OF the arguments
made the day before By Attorney Bell
and the evidence upon which that ar
gment was based. There was no dis
erepsncy. he claimed, between Camp
bells testimony as 10 the amount and
kind OF money he had and the testi
mony OF the exchange teller Of the
AngloCalifornisn Bank and OF the
steamship agent Nor was there be-
tween CampbeIl,s testimony that
Pete had left him half z block from
the GearF-stTeet cars and Gripmanl
Fullaloye's that when Campbell board
"a MS car shorter and q thicker-set
man vas standing at the curbstone