The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-12-05

theory Was a necessary one, as the
leaves, twigs and blood thereon
showed the body had not been drag
ged, but thai Emond walked from
where he was first shot and fell, to
the pile of logs where be fell and was
shot through the head, the singed
hair and powder marks making il
absolutely positive the weapon that
sent bullet crashing through bis
brain was not more than foot away
from his head. The fact that the
blood from where Emond frat fell to
the pile of logs showed that he did
not move in straight line, but stag
gered from where he was first shot
to the pile Of logs, was unreaso enable
in the face Of the theory of the
mysterious force that wrapped the
ropes around his body, and held him
high in the air until the pile of logs
was reached where the dead body was
lying, with furrov through the
check and bullet hole through the
head.
The argument in justification of
the verdict by some of the jurymen
would make monkey blush. One
said he did not consider the powder
marks back of the right ear, and the
singed hair where the bullet entered
that went through the head, worth
considering, when they prove posi-
lively the weapon was placed almost
against his head when the shot was
fred. He said it was evidence to
his mind what a mindD that St.
Cyr shot Emond in the face at the
distance OF 26 feet, according to the
evidence of Helia Koski, and S. feet
according to the evidence of St. Cyr
Then this brilliant juryman would
have to reason that he walked 80
feet after being shot through the
head. Another juryman tried to
justify his position on the ground
that County Attorney Fisher abused
Jas. H. Hawley,' the attorney for
the defense. He said it "made Ill
the jarymen mad. When asked if
he was voting for and against the
lawyers his mouth closed like rat
trap His reasoning, carried to a
logical conclusion, is that Fisher was
too many for Hawleyy therefore St.
Cyr was not guilty. Hawley opened
on Fisher and censured him for the
severe manner in which he cross-ex-
amined and riddled some of his star
witnesses, and for pointing to the
defendant and branding him as a
cold blooded, cowardly murderer.
Hawley tried for three hours to break
down Helia Koski's testimony and
utterly failed. Fisher threw this
at him, and told him the epithets,
which failed to be strong enough to
fully express the total depravlty Of
the depraved brute at whom he
pointed the finger of just indignation,
were learned from counsel for de-
Tense, who pointed his finger at the
murderer Levi, and said he was a
cowardly murderer who skinned a
live rabbit. And because of this
the jurymen s4were ALI mad" and
their Madness, the natural inference
is, accounts for the verdict. In the
jury room, when a jurynan commended
for anything higher than man
slaughter, he was met with the stun
ming and unanswerable- argument
'Why, you are standing in with
Fisher.
When the evidence for the prose-
cution was in, the proof could be
made that defendant was guilty of =
cowardly, eold-bloodsd murder, and
II 1t were possible 10 make anything
that is positive any stronger, the de-
Tense strengthened the case against
st. Cyr from the beginning of its
testimony to the close. The argu-
ments by the defense also weakened
its case. Nothing was presented
that could sway the intellect of a