Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-11
HAMMOND IS ACQUITTED.
Man Who shot John I. shayne Es.

oneratcd by Jury.
Chicago, Nov. 11.-After a trial last
ing three weeks Harry Hammond.
tailor. was last evening acquitted of the
charge of attempting TO murder John
T. Shayne, a prominent merchant of
this city. Last spring Hammond en-
tered the cafe of the Auditorium An
mex where Shayne was at lunch with
Mrs Hammond. the divorced wife of
the tailor. and fired several Shots at
him. one of the bullets inflcting a
wound which for q few days, 1t was
Thought. might cause Shayne's death.
Hammond defense was insanity and
much evidence was introduced in the
trial to show that Shayne had rendered
Hammonds home unpleasant. Shayne
was active in the prosecution
The shooting for which Harry III.
Hammond WAS tried and acquitted took
place in the ladies' cafe of the Auditor
Jun Annex att o'clock in the afternoon
John r Shayne in company with Mrs
Hammond and two other ladies' had
entered the cafe a few minutes before
land seated themselves to table near
the center of the room. and almost di
lrectly opposite the door leading from
| was toward the door. Hammond en-
tered. and after handing his hat and
mufier To a walter. walked over to
where shayne was sitting, and drawing
/ a revolver from his overcoat pocket,
hired three shots at Shayne. The first
bullet entered his back, the second the
lheshy part of his leg and the third
lburied Itself in the leg of the clis.r on
/ ~ -;,,
| After firing the shots Hammond
! walked quietly to the clerk of the hotel
land handed him the revolver, after
locked up al the Harrison street police
station. shayne was taken to a room
lin the hotel and for several weeks how
Tered between life and death. The fol-
flowing day Hammond was arraigned
4 and released on bail. He WAS indicted
April % on four counts. charging as
sauit with a deadly weapon, assault
i with intent to kill. assault with intent
to do bodily injury and assault. Ths
lease was called for trial ON the morn.
ing of October 26.
The verdict was generally expected
except by the attorneys and clos,
ID friends of the State street furrer who
4 maintained TO the last moment ina
Hammond would be convicted. Al
though nearly two hours We're spent il
deiIberation, but four ballots We're la
ken, most of the time being spent II
} going over the evidence and readln.
J the instructions of the court. The frs
!. ballot showed ten for acquittal and tw
: for conviction on one of the mino
counts in the Indictment
! The jurors have practically declare
that Hammond was insane at the tim
f he did the shooting, but the genera
!; impression among those who hay
I watched the trial closely is that tn
I finding was based more on sentimen
than on the actual law and evidence
That this was the case with one a
least was evident by the frankness q
1 Peter Schneider, who, as soon as tn
: verdict had been read and the jury dis
. charged, stepped from the box an
grasping one of Hammond.s attorney
/, by the hand said
e MIR. Seaman. | would have stayed i
: that jury room 100 years before l woul
: have voted to convict Mr. Hammond
: 1t was simply case of whether rio
: man can enter the home of poor ma
e rpd ctaal hts wife