Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-26
JURY is DISCHARGED
No Verdict in the Trial Of Jessie
Morrison.
ELDORADO EXPECTED CONVICTION.
Inc Failure TO Arrive at q Verdict
Creafed Surprise-it 10 Claimed
the Delay VIII Favor Miss
Morrison.

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noon had come so near acauit,inp
Miss MORRISON. The town expected
. majority of the jury to be for con-
s1otlon. The situation In the minds of
the people of Bldorado who know the
facts I'M the case as well as they know
theft alpha bet, was simply this: That
either Clara Castle or Jessie Morrison
w'ats guilty of deliberately planning
murder; that either Jessie Morrison
carried razor ITO Ohm Castles house
with the intention of using it, or Clara
Castle had one withthe same purpose.
Jessie Morrison did not habitually
carry a razor and neither did Clara
CASTLE. If Clara Castle was guilty of
planning murder, then Jessie Nor
rlson was not guilty, and if Clara Cas-
tie had not planned murder that
morning Jessie Morrison was guilty
OF murder in the first degree.
Then the people took in consider
ation one more situation. Jessie Nor
rdson and Clara Castle Wiley had been
Jealous OF each other, because both
loved Ohn CASTLE. But the result of
this nivalry was the marriage of Gas.
tDe to Clara Wiley. During the eight
days of their welded life it has never
been shown that Jessie Morrison
came into the Life of either one of
them until the morning of June %.
She wrote Castle no notes and did not
go TO see him. To all appearances
OlaEta Wiley had triumphed. To the
wedding Jessie Morrison was not in.
vSted. She was not sent an invitation
to the jubMattion in the new home ONE
week latter. The next day the bride
was killed. The people in Eldorado
who know both women, know the
facts and know the situation were
shocked when they heard the result of
the juryis deliberations.
'It must have been that the Jury
simply did not get the facts, said a
Leading citizen" last might. 'Why,
they almost acquitted her!"
81 do hope" said one of tthe wo-
men, 'fthat Jessie Morrison will not
be released. l might pass her on the
street, and I don't want to speak to
her!"
Al is his wont, Olin Castle Iaughed
when told what the jury had done.
Il thought it would be hung
jury" he said, "but I didn't look for
amy thing Like .tlrat.''
And the Racket store, appreciatinx
what good advertising is, had repaint.
cd IT'S signs and put up new ones so
that they may be seen from any part
OF tOw1. Visitors curious to see the
famous Olin Castle often call at the
store and buy trifes which they do
not need.
BY a-clever turn of the plea and
evidence much of the butchery of
Clara Wiley Castle has been borne by
two scapegoats. By the lawyers for
Miss Morrison the current of re.
pugnance aroused in the minds of the
jurors was turned from a channel
leading toward Jessie Morrison, TO
ward Olin Castle the brides young
husband, and toward the Rev. Mr.,
Wharton, the brides pastor. And
Jessie Morrison is left to be simply am
object of pity and sympathy.
One of the Jurors said Yesterday
that Olin Castle should have been in
Miss Morrison's place. "Then," he
said, "the result might have been
different Another juror said: 81
believed that Jessie Morrison was
guilty all right, but didn't think that
her guilt had been proved, and ]
thought she ought to get the best OF
the doubt.
And so thought 1T would be good
idea to give the girl light punish.
ment-someth'img like a year or so in
Jail or in the penitentlary. 1 didn't
Ike that fellow Castle"
I'm his plea to the jury Mr.. Schum.
acher, for the defense, said once THAI
Ohm Castle was In reality the murder.
er of his wife.
Judge Redden referred to the tes.
Mmony of Castle in which he said thai
when Jessie Morrison met him near
his home on the night of June II he
had told her to get out or he would
set the dogs on her.
In pronouncing Castles name. nhs
20" was always long drawn out, with
failing infection at the end of the
prolonged o. He was called names
without end and the jury seemed to
accept them, ait least to a degree.
Last night there were groups OF men
ON the street corners discussing the
case. While it was generally suppos.
ed that the twelve jurymen would not
agree, 1t was thought that only two,
or eit the most three, of the men
would stand out for acquitted.
We'll" said one of the men on the
street corner, they'll get another
chance at her. There will be another
judge on the bench and he may be
able to get another jury.
While the result Of the present trial
Judge on the bench and he may be
seems to have renewed the prejudice
and aroused the old feeling againss
Miss Morrison, 1t is generally admit
cd that time will cool passion and
prejudice and that delay is all in Jes-
aie Morrdsom's favor. An inteestinQ
phase of the trial was the prominence
which the counsel for Miss Morrison
gave during the whole proceeding 20
the fact that Captain 10 Waters. the
famous jury lawyer of Kansas. had
Deen employed to assist the sta6e. $50
sway the jury by his eloquence." On
they expressed 1T. The consequences
WAS that the jufymen hal brnced
themselves so that they would mot be
swepi awlav by the appeals of the elo-
quent captaIsn. And when CAPTAIN
Waters spoke" said one of the juriors
atterward,' it seemed to me that he
har sort of lost heart in the case. IA
sahd that he was never going into an
ether murder trial, and 1 thought thart
he was disguised with this one
The next term Of court in Eldorado
Win be held next March. The term
after that opens m June. If Jessie
MortsOn is tried again the trial viii
Ynobebly take place at the June term.
bsuEsase In March there VIII be n