The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-25
HIS NECK NOT IN DANGER
The Jury in the Shadwell Case
Is Still Out.
THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS
The County Attorney Makes a Strong
Plea for Conviction Was Ex-
pected h Jury Would Re-
turn i'm Thirty Minutes.

The fate of q. II. Shadwell. the muir
hands of the jury. but, judging from
the fact that the jury has been GU
since 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Shadwell's neck is not i'm great danger
Some persons who heard the evidenc,
I'm the case predicted early In the day
that the jury would not be out to *.
coed SC minutes before reaching a YER
diet of murder i'm the first degree, BIT
such persons did not take into con
s%ideration the fact that a Butte jury
was trying the murder.
The day was taken up with argu-
ments to the jury. g. +. Connolly
opened at . o'clock in the morning for
the state, and spoke for about AN hour
and "A half. He gave a thorough re-
view of the testimony. n did not
spare the cold-blooded defendant i'm his
arraignment of him. He spoke of him
as a co~wardly, crawling reptile, who
deserved no sympathy from the jury,
or any one else. Mr.. Connolly spoke
of the flimsy defense Shadwell had OF
fered. and said there was no reason
offered why he should not pay the ex-
IRENE penalty of the law.
Attorney Thresher followed for the
defense, and tried To get the Jury into
IA good humor by telling them he did
not feel well. and then talked to them
for two hours and a half. Like ali
attorneys with a case, ne resorted
to an abuse of the county attorneys
office. and indirectly held the prosecut-
ing officers responsible for the murder.
He said If they had enforced the anti
gambling law and closed up all the
gambling dens the murder would not
have been committed. MIR Thresher
said his client was a true American,
defended himself as he should. The
lawyer then switched off on the Cuban
and accused the government
of cowardice, n hen he rang In the
poor mother" plea, and made a hard
and desperate spiel to clinch one doubt
full juror by urging him tn hang out
and not give I'm If he had a doubt. He
told an old old story. the only one he
had. of how a juror once hung out and
a mans life.
County Attorney Stapleton concluded
the argument with a 40-minute speech.
in which he u in some telling words
against the murderer and also poured
a few hot mes into his counsel. He
said he was surprised at the %foolhardi-
ness OF MIR. Tresher i'm telling the Jury
the same story he had told the jury
in the Clancy robbery case. i'm which
the defendant got 40 years i'm the pen.
Mr.. Stapleton. in reviewing some of the
testimony. referred to S~hadwelrs claim
that when he shot O'Connor the latter
was standing up n trying to hit him.
the proof showed that the bullet
entered the right side of the neck and
came out near the middle of the back.
which was the strongest and the indls-
putable proof that O'Connor was rying
to shield himself behind n table. and
Shadwell deliberately an,l coolly shot
while he was i'm hat STOPPING po-
sitlon. Mr.. Stapleton also spoke of the
fact that Shadwell claimed his gun
was a 45-caliber. while the weapon
for itself that il was only A.
proving that he did not own and always
carry the gun, as he had claimed.
AT the conclusion of the
Judge Clancy read his Instructions to
the jury. which were I'm the main ia
vorable 10 the defendant. The states
were the statutory ones ex-
clusively.
As the jury was about To retire the
last exhibition for effect between Shad-
well n his aged mother took place.
He kissed her with an attempted show
affection, and vas then led out of
the court room, and the jury retired at
about 4:30 o'clock.