New-York tribune., 1901-03-06
EASY FOR GIRL SLA 1 Err
ACTION or ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATToR-
NrY PIERCE CAUSES SURPRISE.
ror-AI AsToHTsHMENT AT HIS INSISTING
OK TRYING DEAN AND MARSHALL
AFTER DAYIss ACQCITTAL.

-r,,s.,,, wears in rrison was the sentence I'm
posed by Judge Cowing yesterday in the 'our'
% General Sessions in the case Of Michael hea''
inc who killed his sweetheart. Mary oinl'h'
belle Of Cherry Hi. last fall keatns' WHO j
nineteen years old was allowed to plead gui''s
TO Iranslaugh;er IN the first degree on the rec
omrnendation Of Franklin Pierce. the Assistant
District Attorney. who said;
Wy f2s that & he 57s Jas P+1sSefsg a 9f rsc resulted
81 TIE death OF the deceased, seems 20 ma I SerTae
Put have found recently that juliss DO - nGS a.
CO.., SsSP, re 5 ysTs2n bSe,ar p We Ie DfoTIed il nay
trza,,re went 70 the home q Mary Smith
and shot her Fis act WIS called al the time
roId blooded murder, and il vas said that ne
hoastsd of his crime after II was committed
The accommodation b. Mr.. Pierce q the ac-
ceptance of Keatngs plea If rnanslaughle'
caused surprise IN the Criminal Courts buIolhs
YESTERDAY il having been supposed that keat-
ing could be convicted If murder without much
difficulty II imposing sentence Judge CoWlns
said that Keating had committed an atrocous
crime. for which jury could find him guilty OF
murder in the first degree. and the District Al
torney had extended 20 him extreme cleInency-
In the circumstances. the judge said the eN-
trerne penalty for mansauEhter IN the hIs' 1e
gree must be imposed
posure Before he was led from the courtroom
he received another token OF Mr. Pierce's sym
pathy Mr Pierce leaned over the railing and
shook hands with Keatirg
The statement - Nj. Pierce that he had found
recently that iuries did not accept the District
Attorneys version was supposed TO refer to the
esse Il Jesse 7 Davis, the former Bellevue
Hospital nurse who MAS acquitted Of responsi-
b.llty for the Death Of Louis Il Hilliard in the
insane pavilion Of the hospital Mr.. Pierce con-
Quoted the trial Of Davis, and seemed 10 be dis
appointed because tho jury acquitted the pTis-
oaer i wes said about the Criminal Courts
Building irrmediately after the verdict in the
Davis case wss announces. that the indictments
foun5 against Edward O. Dean and Clinton I.
Marshall, the nurses who were with Davis al
the time ~ Hiard's death would be dis
rrissed. The evidence against Davis was said
20 be stronger than the evidence against the
other uurses. Mr.. Pierce has insisted upon the
trial of Dean and Marshall however, and he
announced on Monday that their cases would be
placed on the calendar in the Court Of Genera
Sessions yesterday. to have the time Of their
rrisl SET
yesterday IN the Court Of General Sessions
and Judge CoWing directed their trial TO be set
down for March l9. Ny. Wellman. counsel for
ne QeienoanlS, wanted the ulal 10 go over from
the present term, hut Assistant District : ttor-
ney Pierce asked for speedy hearing, and the
date Of March - agreed on.
ar Pierce said the acquittal of Davis would
nct interfere with the trial of the other nurses
Al the same time il said in the Criminal
Courts Building that il probably would be i'm
possible 10 secure the testimony of Thomas J.
Atnnock, the star witness for the prosecution
in the Davis case, as Minnock had fed TO Phila-
| celpEia and was not expected 10 be willing to
n return 10 this city. Persons IN the Criminal
Courts Building who had watched the develop
rnents IN the Davis case said yesterday that
They were almost as much surprised at the ac-
tlon OF Mr.. Pierce in the cases Of Dean and
MARSHALL as they were astonished al his action
IN the case Of Keat!ng the murderer.