Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-24
spite the heat and vltiated condition OF

Cts@n cNleGlttu by the tuCt tnAt they
We're firing Of their long confinement.
and wanted To get home.
GIVES GENERAL SATISFACTION
The verdict IS far as | could learn
gives as general satisfaction as any
which could have been rendered. The
jurors were men of abi&tY and con-
scientious. They weighed well the evil
dence. and did what they took TO be
their sworn duty.
HOW THE JURY STOOD.
There is u difference of opinion rs
TO how the jurors stood o. the first
ballot. James O. Branch, foreman of
the jury. told me that three OF the
jurors were for hanging X. h. Britt,
c. l.. Joyner and himself. The others
were for second degree murder mono
of them voting for less than ten years.
Then they got together and all said
eighteen years would do. Another re-
port says the jury stood eight for
hanging at first bur l think Foreman
Branch is right.
DEFENCE TAKES EXCEPTION.
After the verdict was rendered Col
onel Baker, for the defence. took ex-
ceptions on the ground that the Yer
dict was not recorded before the jury
was DISCHARGED.
The same lawyer moved for an ar
rest of Judgment.
MOTION SET ASIDE VERDICT.
Mir. Edwards moved that the verdict
he set aside as contrary to law and
evidence.
All the motions were continued till
Monday but even then they Will not
be argued at length. II will probably
be further continued.
1t is understood as the present inten
ton of counsel to take the case to the
Court OF Appeals. That Will take
money. but the prisoner has friends
who will put up the cash.
The actual time the jury took In their
room was 30 minutes.
BELIEVED MISS TURNER.
When jurors were asked what evil
dence more than any other influenced
the verdict l was informed that they
put more crcdence in Miss Turner's
statements than in Gilligan's, whose
evidence. whore there were contradic-
tons, was discredted. The jury be-
iieved Sheriff Ben Edwards. w. Il. vii
SON and John MillinEton, all of whom
were contradicIed by the prisoner.
They did not put much care on con-
siderirS the love letters.
Gilligan will probably be taken to
prison IN Petersburg on Monday. To-
night there is n guard about the Isle
of Wight jail
The argument in this celebrated case
lasted over ten hours; the trial itself
seventeen UtNt.
II the eighteen years verdict stands
Gllligan, with good behavior. can come
out of States prison aged about ~
years. He is 20 years old now.
To-day's crowd for size beat all pre-
vlous records.
Court convened this morning earlier
than on any other day. Business was
started at $3.50.
1t was announced that Colonel Boy
kin, OF the prosecution. was i'll and
could not attend the seventeenth day
OF the Gilligan murder trial.
JUDGE HINTON BEGINS.
Judge Hinton began speaking at 10
o'clock. His was the clhsing argument
for the defense
The speaker started by declaring his
satisfaction ut appearing before 4 jury
of his coun!rymen. 1t was always a
satisfaction 10 come before those pcr-
sons whose duty 1t was to apply the
evidence 10 the law. The speaker said
he had pleasant recollcctions of the
jury's admirable conduct during the
trial OF this cause.
-rh2- speaker said he would have to
trespass on the jury's time. and he
hoped they would bear with him.
The speaker said his conduct all
through the trial was to get on fast
and 10 shed all the light possible.
~
He said 1t should he the duty of the
jury Ia look closely into the life OF the
young woman in the case. Ii her past
life was one of deception 1t ought to
be known. and II Ii had been exactly
right ii ought TO be .known to her
credit.
lie declared it was for the jury 10 de-
eide about the credibility of Tbs, writer
of the love letters. Ii was for the jury
To- say whether the young lady had
lived a proper life toward her God her
sw ectheart. her father and her mother.
or whether she had lived a life OF de-
ception.
ONE RICH. OTHER POOR.
The speaker exclaimed: did you
ever know any man, in the history OF
the world. who had gone into a trial
with such disadvantages"
He claimed that part of the love let
ters We're lost; that dispositions which
should have been taken were not taken:
that one side was rich, the other poor.
that one could hire all the ablest law
yers ut this bar. and the other had 10
go to Petersburg and get Q man who
was absolutely unknown to him.
The lawyer said he would not say one
word which should be construed as an
attack on the chastity of Miss Isabel
Turner He had always claimed that she
was pure. He did not want this family
this honorable famlly-left with any
stain on its name. lie had protested
gainst the Introduction of such evil
dence as given by Sheriff Edwards.
SCORES THE COMMONWEALTH.
He scored the Commonwealth for the
Introduction of this horrible. miser-
able. untruthful matter" Tor which the
Commonwealth knew there was no
shadow OF foundation, so far as it inn
plicated Miss Turner's virtue. The
sheriff was; drunk: he had taken n