The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-17
Especial to The Heraid.)

| OGOEN, Sept. 1.-THE jury IN the
vernal murder case returned a verdict
acquitting T. B. Coleman and finding
Warner and Wall guilty of voluntary
manslaughter.
At about a:30 the Jurors sent out
word that they had agreed. and Judge
Rolapp was sent for He arrived in a
few minutes, but there was still a de-
lay, as the Jurors said they were not
ready to come out. Finally. at 1915,
they came out, there being about thirty
people in the court room at the time.
After the jurors were seated, the sher-
if and aids
BROUGHT IN THE THREE PRISON
ERS.
amid a stiffness that was intense.
Mrs. Coleman followed her husband
in, and sat beside him.
In reply to the usual question, Fore
man John Mcguire said they had agreed
upon a verdict, and under the direction
of the clerk, he handed it to the court.
There was a painful wait while the
clerk was entering the verdict. and
then came the reading. This gave rise
to a dramatic incident as Clerk Myers
read:
eve. the jury, find the defendants
guilty of voluntary manslaughter."
HOPE DIED OUT
of Coleman's face, but in an instant
Foreman Mcguire was on his feet, pro-
testing thar the verdict had not been
! I CHI
iury had used the form of verdict con-
victing all three, but had interlined an
acquittal for Coleman. A verdict was
made out in proper form and duly
signed before the jury was discharged.
Attorney Straup insisted that the jury
be polled. and after this was done, At
torney David Evans arose and in behalt
of the state and Uintah county asked
that the Indictment against E. B. Cole
man. charging him with the killing of
Dave Melton, be discharged, and he be
dismissed. This was done Warner
and Wall were taken back to jail, while
Mr.. and Mrs. Coleman shook hands
with and thanked the jurors.
1t SENS that the jury, after retiring.
first voted on Coleman and acquitted
/ him from the charge of murder IN the
first degree. The same was then done
separately with Warmer and with Wall.
/ Coleman was successfully acquitted OF
the charges of murder in the second de-
gree, and of all the degrees of man
slaughter, and Manning and Mcfarland
stuck for convicting Warner and Wall
IL hill q
Mcguire was for involuntary man
1 slaughter. the rest being for voluntary
manslaughter. The majority finally
prevailed and the punishment must be
! imprisonment for not less than one nor
more than ten years.
WARNER AND WALL
were visited in the Jail a few minutes
I after they had been taken back by Mr..
/ and Mrs. Coleman and a number of
/ other friends. Warner said to Coleman:
well, I'm glad you got out, but I'd
! like to know how man can defend
himself. l tried to wheel my horse and
get away, but 1 could not; they'd got
me sure if 1 hadn't have fit"
Wall was also quite denunciatory,
saving that they had had all the de-
tectives west of the Missouri after
them. Warner wanted to know why
they had never been after him before if
he was such a bad man as they had
represented him.
"They knew where I was all the
time he said.
Juror Firth, who has been seriously
ill during the trial, is still critically Ill,
| being threatened with pneumonia His
daughter has come in from Uintah to
be in attendance upon him.