The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-16

who receives compensation for each page
of the record transcribed for the State at
the request of the prosecutor The state
also paid Judge Afford his salary during
his absence from the bench on the change
of venue to Special Judge John NJ Bailey.
The witnes5es-forty-nine OF them-will not
receive fees, as fees are seldom PAID III
criminal cases where convictions are not
accused persons.
The defense of DIR. Alexander probably
cost much more than this. The three at
torneys in the case are believed to have
received fees aggregating at least Sl,0V anu
medical expert testimony probably cost SAo
more incidental expenses are tnouent 10
have brought the costs OF the defenSe 10
5000.
During the trial twenty-four witnesses
were examined for the prosecution and
twenty-five for the defense. These wit
nesses. with the questions of the lawyers.
exceptions and rulings of the court and all
other matters of record caused waiter Car
penter to report 800 pages or stenograpnic
notes, which, transcribed, will amount TO
more than 10000 words in the record or the
case
The unusual interest attracted by the
case caused the telegraph operators in the
Indianapolis Offices much labor, as well as
cost the newspapers Of the country much
money for telegraph news The Associated
Press carried several hundred words night
ly on the trial: the correspondents In In
dianapolis telegraphed news specials ac-
cording to the size and policy of the papers
represented at an average of 500 words a
night for each. The papers of Indianapolis
handled much of the news and IL Is a low
estimate that the Journal, during the four
teen days of the trial, printed S,UOO WORDS
of the developments in the proceedings
REVIEW OF THE TRIAL.
The trial was begun Monday, Feb 2. with
seventy men drawn for service as jurors.
At 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the jury
of twelve men had been selected as fol-
lows: C. t. Faulkner, Thomas w. Brown.
Harry L. Davis, Timothy Hussey. James
ID. White. Harry A. Eickmann. William III.
Gimble, John B. Pasquier, w. j. Lister,
Robert Lingenfelter Joseph Theising and
Stephen Cook. Bailiff Mendenhall took
charge of the jury at that hour and from
4:30 clock on the afternoon of Feb. until
10 o'clock q. m, Feb. Is, the jury was IN
his charge and held incommunicado.
On the morning of Feb. the opening
statement Of the case was made by Deputy
Prosecutor Charles Benedict and later In
the day Rufus Cantrell, the chief gnoui,
was placed on the witness stand Cantreii
remained on the stand all of that day ana
half of the next under examination In cnie.
by twenty-three other witnesses Tor the
State. This number was made up OF
ghouls. relatives of persons who had SUI
| fered from their depredations and other
persons who were thought to be able 10
make the testimony of the CHIEF witness
convincing. The state closed ITS case sess.s feo.
i
| was made by Henry Spaan on Feb D. He
| followed this with the introduction OF testi-
money from twenty-five witnesses Inc
| majority OF the witnesses were as TO the
| accused physicians character. five OF them
| on the insanity of Rufus Cantrell, and the
| defendant and his wife, who testified to a
minor detail of the theory OF defense Tne
| defense closed Feb. 10, and after some testi-
| mony In rebuttal by the State. court ad-
| journed until the following morning.
On Feb. IL John c. Ruckelshaus, county
| prosecutor, made the opening argument OF
the prosecution. He was followed by Mar
| tin Hugg who for more than four hours
| argued for the acquittal of Alexander. The
next day Henry N. Spaan argued until
shortly after the opening of court at
O'Clock William T. Brown followed Spaan
| with the closing argument of the State.
| After the instructions Of Judge Bailey the
| case was given to the jury at 10 O'CLOCK on
| the morning of Friday, Feb. Ii.
| During the trial of the case the court
! room was crowded with people and esti-
| mating the capacity of the Criminal court
| room at 5OO the lowest estimate to be made
| would make 10000 as the attendance OF
| spectators at the trial.