Arizona republican., 1899-06-12
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Earling, s. D., June IA night
 mare from which the -ore1lan of the
 Fresno county grand jury suffered
 caused the release of Charles E. Gas mer on a charge of murder, at the May 1 term of court, recently opened here.
 The entire case has been a remark able enc. Frank W. Heppe, the man
 whom Casmer was accused of killing, formerly lived alcne with his partner,
 Tom Barber, on their cattle ranch north of here. Five years ago, Barber was stabbed to death from behind Heppe admitted killing him, but claimed to have acted in self-denfense. Though his story was doubted, he was dismissed for lack of testimony to controvert it.
 The knife with which Barber was killed was kept locked in the district attorneys safe, to be introduced in evidence The night before the trial it disappeared under circumstances which seemed to preclude the possibil- ity of it's having been removed by hu- man agency.
 After his acquittal, Heppe went to exas. He subsequently returned to South Dakota and worked as a cowboy on a ranch 100 miles north of Eearl- ing. Casmer was employed on the same ranch. Early in the spring, while training stray cattle, they were overtaken by night and a blizzard, near Heppe's old cabin north of the town It had net been entered since Heppe went south, but the wanderers determined to pass the night there.
 Casmer claims to have been outside, caring for the horses, when he heard Heppe scream, and, rushing in, found him lying across the hearth, on almost the identical spot where Barber had fallen. In his back was the missing knife.
 Casmer was arrested. Aware that an effort would be made to work on the jurors superstition, the authori- ties did all in their power to discredit the idea that any one but Casmer could have killed Heppe. The grand jurors were the hardest headed old catt.emen in the country. The prose cutting attorneys presentation of the case against the prisoner evidently inn pressed them strongly, and had they acted at once an indictment would cer- tainly have been returned. Owing to the lateness of the hour, however, an adjournment was taken until the next day In the morning it developed that all the jurors lad undergone change If opinion and wanted to release Cas- mer
 Pressed by the district attorney for an explanation, the foreman sheepish- ly confessed to a remarkable dream during the night, in which he had seen Heppe stabbed in the back by his de- ceased partner, Barber, with whom the foreman was himself acquainted. In the morning he related this dream to his fellow jurors so graphically and with such wealth of detail that he com vinced them of Casmer's innocence.
 All efforts proved unayailing to con- vince them that the dream was simply the result of an overwrought imagina- ton and of listening to the testimony in the murder case. Their report, ac- cording,y, included no indictment against Casmer, and the authorities had no option but to release him.
 The high character of all the jurors renders it improbable that any of them should have been tampered with. That all should have been corrupted is all most outside the bounds of possibility. Nor is Casmer financially able to nf standing to act dishonesty.
 Despite the apparent absurdlty of Casmer's story, public sentiment is with him, and he was given quite an ovation on his release