The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-16

Mrs Emma j. Baptiste has also been
vindicated. The jury found her not
guilty by reason of insanity and she
is once more a free woman.
At 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the testimony and the arguments of at
torneys We're concluded, the courts in
structions had been submitted and the
jury retired They read over the in
structions and then went to supper
AT O'Clock they We're again in their
room and ieisurely talked over the case
and then they took a ballot or two and
at O'Clock notified the bailff that they
had reached verdict. The defendant 5
attorneys, Clinton and Lamb, and Mr.
Stivers of the county attorneys office,
We're summoned, and with them came a
number of women, who had taken an
uncommon interest in the case
Mrs. Baptiste was brought from the
Jail, nervous and trembling. She looked
frightened but a friend assured her
that the verdict was an acquittal, and
then she frightened up. She was ac-
companied by her two sisters. Mrs.
Minnie Woten and Mrs. Laura Zeigler
who had been constantly with her dur
ing the trial and they spoke some
cheering words to her, but she could
1t showed on her face when the jurors
marched in and took their places in the
box. Some of the jurors looked at her
and smiled reassuringly.
Gentlemen, have you arrived at a
verdict?' asked Judge Clancy after
Clerk Normoyle had polled the jury
Yes sir replied Foreman James
Davidson. as he handed the papers to
the judge. The latter glanced at the
verdict and then passed it to the clerk,
who placed the file mark on it and then
read:
We, the jury in the case of the state
of Montana, plaintiff. versus Emma J.
Baptiste, defendant. find the defendant
not guilty by reason of insanity"
The audience in the back part of the
room cheered and applauded and sew
eral women rose to their feet, clapped
their hands and screamed.
Stop that, stop that, yelled the
court. pounding on his bench. I'll fine
you all for that hollering. I'll stand
none of this ruffianism.
The old women and young men in
stantly Gained down, but they all con-
tinued to wear smiles of extreme salts
faction and no face had more pleased
and radiant expression than those of
Mrs. Baptiste and her two attorneys.
Mr.. Stiyers asked to have the jury
polled, and the formality was gone
through, after which Judge Clancy
thanked them for performing their duty
and discharged them He then turned
TO the defendant, and in discharging
her, said:
Mrs. Baptistes you have stood trial
for your life and have been acquitted
You are now discharged and can go
hence
She got up and smiled upon the
friends who stood by her during her
trouble, and then she shook hands with
her LAWYERS and with each of the i,lrars
and then thanked them. Then she
shook hands with everybody and sub
United to being kissed by the old wo-
men. Miss Green. who had taken a
great interest i'll the trial, said she felt
like shouting. She was filled with
sort of a notwithstanding spirit, and
went about shaking hands with every
body and crying, Bless the Lord" She
thanked Judge Clancy, and he told her
he came very near filming her for rails
ing disturbance in the court ROOM
She said she could not help it.
After she got through shaking hands
with every body in the court room, Mrs.
Baptiste followed Judge Clancy TO his
chamber and expressed her thanks to
him, and then she thanked the news |
paper men for their fair treatment Of |
her.
Il don't know what ] shall do now"
she said Il have nothing to live for, |
and | will always be d misera BILE and |
unhappy woman" Then she began To |
cry.
have been in jail five MONTHS she |
said. Tomorrow 1t would be Just five |
months. IL was on the 10Th of Septem- |
Der that l was put in
Five months ago Mrs. Baptiste shot |
and killed James Baptiste, the. man who /
for seven years had recognized her as
his wife, whom he had then dis