The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-18
CHARLES B0INAY IS GUILTY
JURY RETURNS 4 VERDICT OF IT UR-
 DER IN FIRST DEGREE.

Eorty-three NIinutes-No One Showed
 Surprise Least of all the Prisoner-For A
 Moment He Displayed Some Feeling but
 Quickly Resumed His Cool Dumeanor.
 Bridgeport, Dec. 17.-Charles A. Boinay, who has been on trial for two weeks in the Fairfield county superior court, charged with murder in the first degree, was this evening found guilty, The jury was out one hour and forty three minutes. Boinay will be brought before the court next Tuesday for sen tence. State Attorney Fessenden nov ed for immediate sentence when the verdict was announced, but at the re- quest of Attorney Lynch, for the de- fense, the court deferred passing sen tence until the court assemblies next Tuesday.
 AS had been foreshadowed from the first, the verdict was no surprise to those who have followed the case, and apparently least of all to the man who heard the words pronounced that indi- cated that he was to end his life on the gallows. From the opening of the trial the accused proved a remarkable char acter. His nonchalance never deserted him and he remained the same cool, | smiling prisoner to the end of the chap- | ter. When the verdict was rendered he l did for a brief moment evidence that | he was aware of the gravity of the slt- l uation, but his display of feeling was but momentary and he quickly resumed | his wonted demeanor.
 Almost immediately after the assem- l bling of the court this morning Assist ant State Attorney Galen A. Carter be- gan the opening argument for the state. He claimed a verdict of first degree murder and quoted the satutes to the effect that a death resulting from the commission of felony makes the party committing the felony guilty of murder in the first degree. He reviewed the features of the case and Boinay's ad- mission that he was present in the house on the night of the death of MT Nichols, which was In itself proof con- elusive. according to the laws of the state, that the accused was guilty ol the crime as charged in the indictment Attorneys Toomey and Lynch then fol lowed for the defense, and the latter who has been the senior counsel anc has put up most creditable struggle despite the overwhelming odds, made ! very touching plea for Boinay- Ht spoke for a little over an hour, and al times there was scarcely dry eye 1T the court room.
 State Attorney Fessenden began his arguments upon the court reassemblins l after the noon recess, and for over al hour and a half Ne dwelt with telling effect upon the many points of conclu l sive evidence that were brought out 1T the trial, which fastened the crime up on the accused, and closed by referring to the statutes as had been outlined bS | Attorney Carter in the opening argu ment.
 The arguments were completed a 3:3O and after ten minutes reces! Judge Elmer made his charge to tn, jury, which occupied a little more thar an hour. It was very strong agains the prisoner. The jury retired at 4:2o and at 6.22 the verdict was reported and the trial, which has proved to b unprecedented in the history of Con necticut criminal jurisprudence, wal brought to an end. The murder fo
 which Bonay stands convicted wa
 committed on the morning of July ? last, when George Marcus Nichous, al aged and wealthy farmer of Daniel Farms. was fatally shot while Boina. and David Weeks were In his house fo | the nurpOse of robbery