Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-20
.T'RY IS EIGHT TO -FOUR
THAT ONE WILL HOLD THE Resi-


49,
,.. jurors slept twelve hours.
rho breollfast served this morning
recelyed with less complaint than
ras heard yesterday morning. But
n.r II had been disposed OF there did
%, seen TO he any desire upon the
'.,, Of the Jurors to resume the strug-
u. win the problem Of life or death
ar Adolph l., LuetEert'
u do not believe the Jurors will eyer
..,ss." enid BaMn Wolcott this morn
m. "They stand eight for convection
4 and four Cor acquittal."
lner being out forty hours the
\ Twelve men stood thus;
ror conviction and the death penal
a., Royd, Heickhold. Bieey, Mahoney,
ussmer. shaw Franzen and Fowler
Far acuulttul: Barber, Holabird.
Harley and Behmiller.
4 There was a report current during
III. morning that Juror Barber was
r,verlnr and would soon vote with
the majority
Tho minority have argued sluce the
h4,ulng that the corpus deficit was
M, established with sufficient direct
ace II, convince them that Mrs. Luet-
w 5.,I They contend thu. If they
~ ' J1,bt they are in duty bound.
raider the Instructions of the court, to
4 lAl'' ,.t1.rt Tho benefit OF Il. For
, r'9s5n alone. it is said. these
,AI' bsve cast their votes for All
g,ittlI
T,ror Harley ia n German and the
-. ,r,ds that he sympathizes
.i,b t'' t,,afrsrt ON the score of nation
.I't,, Harley was indicted in Cook
INy;tv In connection with the county
I,C."n,jssioners' boodlers' scandal of
4 ..s ys,rs apo He was never tried,
NE cose being dismissed by ex-Judge
i5bp Longenecker. the then states at
go,
stsie,s Attorney Deneen is free to
| c5nIsss thDt n he had known Harley's
tar5 HARLEY would never have been
trittld 10 serve on the Jury.
i5-or Rehmiller is a butcher ana
|l,.ps n meat market at Desplaines, a
,,t,,rban town Al one time he was a
/ nstomer OF I.uetgert and purchased
,1usarp from him, This fact was
ftr6vn hut Behmiiler answered with
ktprarent fairness that the business re
| il.ons he had with the prisoner would
n no way affect his Judgment in the
Eidal Of the case.
The prosecution is now convinced
Ithst the matter of procuring a jury to
Xty this noted case was pushed along
H. vigorously. only one week was
iqured. At the time 1t was thought
b. case would not take over three
yasks in It's trial The magnitude and
Importance Of the great case was not
.lly realized.
b ate a hearty breakfast.
] Will be acquitted, | am sure" ex-
ItImed Luetgert, smiling. THE next
,ng am called to the court room |
Inn leave 1t n free man. The sweetest
1lsIc | shall ever hear shall be that
'Ellct Of not guilty 1t will be
~ verdict, too"
4 q look fur a disagreement, and that
not so bad"
AZ 10 o'clock baillffs elected all
e'paper men from the court, say
g they had been instructed to do SO
4 voc Judge.
sglge Iuthlll appeared a few min
0or to his room was opened for him,
out dozen reporters lodged in.
lore the bailIffs could close the
is9 for the court room. They were
hwy seated before half dozen
Kyle aGhlh cleared the room.
'.s. Iulhlll called the jury into
"' az i''"y a, m FROM neighbor-
WINDOW Juror Harley was seen
ms started report that verdict
A Tsr Vvii It"ghsu'
H. w. -, minutes later the judge sent for
. Ff,Sonet,
I'm, NV minutes after the jury came
we court room, states Attorney
tnesn and Attorneys Vincent and
Dsen pushed through the crowd and
e aamuted,
L1s'geit was returned to the Jail a
slnutes after IL o'clock. As he
.l loWr the corridor to his cell
WIS pued with questions from a
.ss,l reporters.
4ney lid not do anything" he said.
~. ~ disagreement. sure" said the
~ prisoner as he walked spring.
~ Ht' MS cell.
% JuiS was detained for some
lll
ne star chamber conference vos
-gnl by the Jury. stats's ATTORNEY
IA gn gave the facts to the Assoc
~ ill-s.
! hardly reached nv office this
uWHg said Nh. Deneen ovhen
"A informed my presence was de-
3ylgert jury had Su,' room room "a ana the
OF that nature 10 make the
r. cdurt rn',,, , sgnt lor and came into
gs brougtt, S"iillhs. Ihen the jury