Connecticut western news., 1901-01-24
THE SECOND DEGREE.
VERDICT AGAINST SLAYERS OF LEN
 ME BosscHIETER.
Prosecutor EmIey Decinr~. That He Is Satisfied With the DeciSion-Thc Prisoners Breaking Down-PubIic Opinion In Paterson Divided.

Opinion In Paterson Divided.
 After deliberating nearly four hours 12 men have decided that Walter Me Alister, Andrew Campbell and William Death enticed Jennie Bosschieter to Saafs saloon, gave her three fatal doses of chloral, drove her to a lonely hillside and. finding her dead in their arms, threw her body by the side of lonely road. Having decided this. this Pater- son jury filed back into the courtroom and announced that they believed fit ting punishment of such crime was rfot a scaffold, but from 6 to 30 years in prison, at the discretion of the judge. with the possibility of pardon.
 We find the three defendants guilty of murder in the second degree" said the foreman, a little detiantly.
 'So say we all of us" chorused the other II.
 sigh of intense relief broke from the stolid McAlister. Campbell passed his hands rapidly before his eyes, and the look of terror vanished from them. Death relaxed the tension of body rigid to face a verdict of hanging and leaned back in his chair with gasp of relief.
 Prosecutor Finley says he is satisfied with the verdict.
 As for Paterson, it received the yer dict with the same stolidity that it had received the crime. Paterson has few nerves. Many in Paterson never really have wanted the hanging of these three of her gentlemen. Mill hands have cried for a gallows, old John Bosschieter has trusted in the vengeance of just God. but others always have hoped to be able to spare the lives of the three young men. Certain we'll informed people have said from the first that the jury nev- CT would vote for first degree verdict.
 The verdict leaves a wide margin to the judge in the matter of punishment. He may let them of with five year sen tence, to be shortened by good conduct. He may impose a sentence of 30 years.
 With Judge Dixon imposing sentence it is far more liable 10 be 30 years than fve.~ Judge Dixon is n severe man, though just. His charge was virtually an instruction to bring in verdict of murder in the first degree. So severe was it that the defense objected formal ly to the whole of it.
 Andrew Campbell is slowly breaking down in the county jail at Paterson. his face showing unmistakable signs of col lapse since the verdict of the jury was de livered. Campbelrs face has thinned with in the last few days, and he is suffering from a great disappointment in not being set at liberty. There had been some sym. pathy fer the boyish looking murderer but the evidence pointed him out to be as guilty as the others, although not the ringleader in the crime.
 It is said by those close to him that he would have broken down long ago but for McAlistcr, who has kept both Campbell and Death encouraged by telling them that they would escape with very light sentence. Campbell from the first thought the jury would let him out with a lighter degree of crime than any of the others and he was much excited the night hs heard the result of the jury's delibera tions.
 It is thought that the trial of George ] Kerr for his participation in the events preceding the death of Jennie Bosschietei will begin a week from today. It is said that Campbell and Death will go on tn, witness stand and testify in behalf oi Kerr provided the state of their healtl will permit.