The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-29
TIE JURY ACQUITS
MRS. ANNA GEORGE
Found Not entity Of the Murder Of
SaXtOn.
The VERDICT WAS CHEERED
Score oil Women Rushed to Congratulate
the Defendant.
THE VERDICT WAS CHEERED
TWENTY-FIVE BALLOTS WERE CAST
Number of Congratulatory kilograms
Were Recsived by Mrs. George, and
a Theatrical Manager Offers
5000 Weeks Engagement

Canton, O.. april 2S.-The jury in the case
! of Mrs. Anna +. George, charged with the
murder OF George D. Saxton, President Nc
| kinley's trother-in-law after being out for
nearly twenty-fou hours, filed into the
! court room at 1927 a. M, and announced
that verdict had been reached. The YER
dict was not guilty.
Before the verdict was read the court
cautioned the audience there must be no
demonstration. In spite of that, there were
/ loud cheers as the clerk read the verdict of
Not guilty.
/ A score e women rushed to Mrs. George
| and shook her hands. Congratulations were
also extended to her attorneys. She
/ worked her way to the jury box, took each
! juryman hy the hand and gave them a
! Word and ncd of thanks. Then the court
said she discharged and released The
| jury
! Mrs. George remained in the court room
! for some time after the verdict was an
nounced, aekno wledging the congratula-
| tions Of her. friends. She then went to the
Hotel Conrad a block from the court
| house, in eonfpany with Mr. and Mrs. Nc
! llheny her cousins, who have been with
her during much of the hearing and ut
| 12:45 was esting dinner with them at the
hotel.
twenty two Ballots Cast
The jury WIS out just twenty-three
hours and foetS-tive minutes, and during
that time twenty-five ballots were cast.
| The Interval between these ballots was
| spent in reviewing the case and discussing
its various phases
After re jury retired it was said the
| ilrst or preliminary ballot was taken at
| 1890 O'Clock Thursday afternoon or a half
| hour after tney had been coseted In the
! jury room. This ballot showed four Jury
| men favoring Il verdict of guilty of mnr-
| der in the frsi degree and eight jurymen
| for a. a.verdie; OF not guilty, or acquittal
! As the story goes, the second ballot was
! take.t-at J.. n."and resulted the same.
| rms sgas also the result of the third ballot,
at 3.10 ofclock. The fourth was taken and
the result Is said to have been two for
| guilty In The first degree and seven not
| guilty. oue for second degree and two for
manslaugbter.
AT 4 n. m. Yesterday the fifth ballot was
taken with eiSht for not guilty and four
for mansialiehter. This was the result of
all the Succeeding ballots up to the four
teenth ballot at o'clock Friday morning.
The fifteenth ballot was taken at 80
O'Clock Friday morning. resulting in nine
for not guilty and three for manslaughter
Inc sixteenth ballot was not taken until
els O'clock This morning when the yote
stood eight for rot guilty. six for man
slaughter ard one for assault and battery.
AT s;43 Friday morning the seventeenth
ballot was taken standing eight for not
guilty and four for manslaughter
Thr Eighteenth Ballot
/ Forty-fve minutes later the eighteenth
ballot stood ten for not guilty and two for
mansiaushtcr. The nineteenth ballot at
$50 a. m. resulted in nine for not guilty
and three for rnanslaughter.
At 10 a. n. The twentieth ballot showed
eleven for rot guilty and one for first de-
gree murder.
The same result was obtained In the
twenty-fiEst ballot. The twenty-second and
last ballot was taken at 1922 O'Clock, the
unanimous vote of the twelve men being
that of not guilty.
A number of women friends and ac-
quaintances called on Mrs. George in The
parlor OF the Conrad hotel. and a number
of travelling men introduced themselves
and Offered Their congratulations.
JuryInan Miller was one of the callers.
and to him Mrs. George expressed her
warmest thanks. saying she had known him
as her staunch friend from the first
Gang cratuIatory TeIegrams
number OF congratulatory kilograms
were delivered 10 her. To a reporter of the
Associate Press she said she would go to
her old home in Hanoverton tomorrow and
visit her mother Mrs Lucinda Ehrhart
for few days Then she will return TO
Canton to gather up her belongings and
arrange FOR the future. AS to the future
she said she had no definite plans as yet.
She has been invited to go to the seaside
for an extended vacation during the sum-
mer and she said she would probably ac-
cept the in,tation.
Mrs. George. continuing, said to the As
lfn
what had expected from the start. l am
vsrv grateful to the court and the other
officiais for the consideration they have
shawn. me. am also very thankful to the
great mrn who represented the press.
THEY Ahaye ali been very kind and sympa-
.thetic and trea.ed me most fairly. l cam
NOT And words 10 express my feelings To-
wards NV attorneys. Their work was be- |
yond all praise. They left nothing undone {.
in NV behalf ard shall remember them |
and appre date nem as long as ! live"
She added that her two boys would re- |
main wi her FOR the present and that |
they would accompany her to visit her |
mother.
All OF the kilograms received by Mrs |
George are Bot mere congratulatory ones. |
One IL is announced, is from a theatrical |
company IN 20 nmbus, offering her $500 for |
a weeks eBes ement with the company. |
Another ofier is for the same sum for a |
lecture III Pittsburg on 'Womans Rights i
One of the relatives, speaking for her. said |
both offers had been declined, as would be /
all such propositions.