Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25
|SHADWELL
CONVICTED
|Of Murder in the Second De-
gree and Given
THE LIMIT in PRISON
Sentence Will Be Confirmed by the
Court Next Tuesday-PriS0ner
Read His Fate.
THE LIMIT IN PRISON

Unless the attorneys engaged Oh tHe
side of the defense should succeed in Sc
curing a new trial for their client, a move
in which direction has already been
made, G. r. Shadwell, better known as
Bob Shadwell. will spend the remain-
der of his life behind prison bars for hav-
ing shot and killed Martin James O'Con-
nor in this city ON the morning of Janu-
airy II, 1898.
AT 8 O'Clock last night the jury in the
case retired to deliberate and at exactly
1880 this morning it was ushered into
court with the following verdict in its
possessions:
I'VE, the jury in the above entitled ac-
ton, find the defendant, G. r. Shadwell,
charged under the name of Robert Shad-
well, guilty of the crime of murder in the
second degree and fix his punishment at
life Imprisonment in the state prison.
SAM H. TRELOAR, Foreman
As soon as the clerk had finished read
ngi it the jury was polled and each MEM
Der gave an Affirmative answer The
judge then sale he would confirm the
sentence at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning,
and at the request of the attorneys for
the defense ordered a transcript Of the
testimony to be made. this move being
the first step towards the presentation Of
d SldlelIlcIll i'll IlOllOu 1Of q new TRIAL.
The motion, it is understood, is to be
based on the allegation that the instruc-
ions to the jury conflicted.
Shadwell seemed to know that the ver-
dict was not in his favor before it was
read. When the jurymen began to file
into the room Shadwell made a hasty
mental survey of their faces and, turn
ing to Attorney T%hresher, one Of his
counsel, who sat beside him. remarked:
THE verdict is not favorable to me-"
He had nothing to say after it was rem
dered.
The jury that rendered the verdict com
prised Richard Payne, F. J. Roberts, NJ.
III. Penhole. Morgan Howell, Thomas
Johns, NJ. Perlman. Enoch Johns, James
Treloar, w. d. Fenner, S. H. Treloar, w.
NJ. Dyer and William Murrish. On en-
tering the room in which the delibera-
tions We're held they agreed among them
selves to tell nothing on the outside after
their discharge as to how the various
votes stood. They We're in charge of
Bailiff Bert Shay. who says he never
had charge of a body of jurors that con-
Quoted themselves as we'll. They did not
give him the least trouble during the en-
time time they We're in his custody.
Judge Clancy came into court twenty
five minutes late this morning and apollo
gized to the attorneys for having kept
them waiting.
lie llldl VI Titu bGlS SIb, dlldS FRANK
Brown. had been set for today. but the
Judge stated that as seven of the regular
trial jurors panel We're on the ShadWell
jury he would continue the case until
Monday morning.
Yesterday morning Attorney Makel,
who in conjunction with Peter Breen rep
resents the defendant. asked for a post
ponement until Monday. basing his re-
quest on the allegation that Breen YVES
ont ~ fn,T1, n nd hn hal mot hoan ,Ll, t>
locate him. The judge refused to grant
the continuance for so long a period, but
consented to carry it over until today.
Just before 9 O'clock his morning Breen
walked into the cour room.
The judge set a few criminal matters
for trial. John Montin, charged with
having struck a fe~lloW-Workanen With a
drill while at work in the St. Lawrence
mine, will be tried on the 2Sth. Katie
Bush. the young woman who a ac-
cused of having given Mrs. Julia Ho2ar.h
a bath in alleged caustic acid because of
a harbored belief that Mrs. Hogart had
stolen 5000 from her. will be tried Dec. 8.
Fred Barker, charged With grand lar
ceny, will be tried Dec. s. John Boyd.
who is alleged to lave been concerned in
the disappearance of bullion belonging to
the Bi-Meta.lic Mining of Gran
= 'uAt ptSauSu y SuillS, put do Ht
is out on bonds no date for the coin-
mencement of his trial was set.
Lenora LeMunyon was granted a de-
cree of divorce from Clarence lie Munyon
by Judge Clancy today on the ground of
neglect and desertiOn. Mrs. LeMunyon
testified that the defendant and herself
were united in marriage in Spokane on
Oct. 20. 1896: that on Aug. / of last year
he deserted her and while She did not
know his exact whereabouts she thought
he was in Honolulu. She further states
that LeMunyon had never given her any
money although he had old her he work
ed for a living.
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