Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-13

legally declared, as was claimed by his
counsel, hid been made the victim of q
| horrible chain Of circumstances. He
had shot and killed his brother-in-la law
his comrade and his friend by accident.
| in misadVenture: had been brought
To trial charged with deliberate muir
der, bat II Of his countrymen. after lis
teninE 10 al the evidence that could
| be gathered by the dligcnt officers Of
the law. cleared his character ana left
ii az clean as il was on the morning
Of that fatal 4th of July
Mr.. Justsice Aiken concluded his i'm
partial charge addressed to the jury
shortly before o'clock in the after
| noon. The weary jurors went forth
from the court room to their improvis-
cd chamber across the corridor to find
a verdict that was just as between the
commonwealth and the scholarly Young
man who was then under Indictment.
TWO hours and a half they spent in
the scclusion which was theirs, guard
cd from intrusion by the court officers
who had crossed their white STATS
athWart the door.
AT ESQ they marched off to the Man
sion House to supper returning at 80
To resume their deliherat lions in secret.
Wcmen, scores Of them. stuck to the
seat. in the hall Of justice where the
trial had been in progress for 70 days.
if you count the Sahbaths, and there
they remained chattering ana laughing.
Nothing less than an earthquake would
have induced them to quit their places
even for an instant.
Nearly five hours had elapsed since
the giving OF tho case into the hands Of
the jury 70" 4 dec ision. when the ru-
NOR ran through invisible wires that
the sheriff Of the county had been
summoned. 1t was the truth. He came
A message went to the justice in haste.
announcing that an agreement had
been reached.
Attorney Clark entered the court
loom al 2.
Whitney and Proctor. Murray and
Bowie. appeared and passed within
the bar Enclosure.
District Attorney Weir swept into the
scene at $50.
DIR. Utlcy, the Jail physician, loitered
near the stage. He never wandered
far away. The supposition was that the
authorities feared that the paleontolo-
gist would collapse at the end of the
awful ordeal through which he had
passed thus far with high strung
nerves. but perfect self control.
There was stir In the court room
not unlike the rustllnG Of leaves in a
forest when the breeze IL frcshening.
the almost indescribable sound which
always precedes the coming Of de-
PENDANT at the bar to listen to the SOL
emn words which VIII convict or set
HIM free.
The sharp cry Of the deputy sheriff
demanding that the spectators keep
their seats and he silent was followed
Immediately by the stride Of Charles
II. Eastman through the crowd and in
to the steel cage which he had occupied
since jury was fret impanelled in the
case brought against SHIN by the COM
mOnwealth of Massachusetts.
The electric lamp of the great cham
delicr overhead shone fun In his face
and smile played around the corners
of his mouth as be shed his overcoat
and threw it carelecsly oVe- the pick
cts Of the fence in front. He stood
erect and graceful.
He bowed to TIE watching members
of his family in the distance. his moth
er and his sister, his brother and his
b: ide of a few weeks.
Then he SGT down as cody and SEEM
ingiy as cOmforta bic in body and mind
as II he had been in his Cwn drawing
room at home. There was only one
outward sign of internal agitation and
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