The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-04-26
The Jury Disagree
In the Hedges Murder Trial.
Brief Synopsis of the Case.

ing out all night from 8 O'Clock, con
sidering . verdict in thu Hedges.
Bochard shooting case, reported tt
the Court at 9 O'Clock Sunday morn
ing, an agreement to disagree. ,
Seven for acquittal and five for con
victlon. The Jury was discharged
Hedges was remanded to Jail to avail
Q second trial.
The case began on Thursday
morning, closing at about 8 o'clocl
Saturday evening. Nearly . hun
dred witnesses were subpoenaed
Prosecuting Attorney Petit was A.
sisted BY Mr.. c. v. Wright and El
L. Ricketts,. The defen:e was con
Quoted by c. H. Buerhaus assisted
by A. r. McBroom. Miss Lucy
Allen was appointed Official Stsno.
grapher and Andy Nunemaker spec
ial court Constable.
The Sentinel will not give the
court details. 1t was filthy in every
regard. 1t displays . condition Of
depravity none of us wants to consid,
er. The language used can not soil
the types. A brief resume is this:
Bocbard married . daughter Of
Buzzard living in Perry township,
near Busna Vista. They never went
to house keeping. Bochard was q
young man of sober, industrious hab'
its, and had . good character, dispos-
ed at times to high temper. He
wished to take his wife from her
parents homo and remove some dis.
lance SO ~ to be away from inauen.
ces that he thought not the best. He
had sent on several occasions friends
to see bis wife and persuade her to
come with him and keep house togeth.
er. The wife refused to the husbands
requests. and persisted in
with her father and the fam
lily.
Last fall q young man named
Hedges engaged with Bozzard to
stay with him during the winter, do
ing chores for his board, expecting
work in factory, he said, when the
spring opened. Young Hedges as
far as known and said Is not q noted
bad character. He and Bochard
we're entire strangers, never having
met, until the fatal morning.
On Sunday afternoon, of Jan. 7th
Bochard got horse and buggy At
Laurelvills, some six miles distant,
'aying be vas going after his wife.
He stopped and hitched his horse at
Turner's, q near neighbor to Buxzard,
md said be was going for his wife,
md intended killing young Hedges.
whom he accused Of being the cause
Of his wife's sstrangement.
Arriving At the Buzzard house be
'aw Hedges carrying . pail of water
INTO the house, and called on him to
come out. Hedges was advised by
he Buzzards not TO 90 out for fear
he might meet harm. He staid in,
the door. Bochard got IN
X broke in the door and pursued
Hedges up stairs. trying to hit him
With the AZ. In the close struggle
Up the narrow stairway, Hedges got
,old of some earthen fruit cans, and
nth them hit Bochard, stunning him
md securing the AZ, and driving
3ochard from the house. Boehard
'fter little while lingering around,
net with two of the Hedges boys,
listant relatives. attracted by the
row" They went back In the house,
Hedges was upstairs afraid, he said
o come down. Bochard and the
'oys left going to the house Of Amos
Hedges, only few hundred yards
istant. Here Bochard dressed his
vounds, received in the struggle on
he stairway. In . short time he
nth one of the Hedges went back
0 the Buzzard house, he was advised |
ot to stop, but 90 on. Buzzard
ad in his house two guns, = rifle
nd shot gun. Hedges, in the ab-
ense of Bochard had come down
tairs and took position in the door
18th the rife in hand, the shot gun
, ready reach.
When Bochard came back Hedges
not and killed him. Here the testi-
'ony is radically different. The de-
'nse claim that Bochard, in com.
any with bis friend came into the !
ard threatening that he would kill,
ut his hand on his hip packet, bis
lend advising him to come on, come
way, and Hedges IN the door with
6e in hand, calling on him to keep