The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-18
DR.. BROUWER is ACQUITTED.
SPECTATORS CHEER WHEN JURY
SAYS NOT GUILTY."
The Freed Man Thanks Judge and Jurors,
HOlds q Reception I'm Court and Then
Marches In Triumph to His Home and
Children win stick 10 Toms RiVer.

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TONS RIVER. n. j., Oct. IT.-"Not guilty"
was the verdict found by the jury selected
to try DR.. Frank Brouwer OF the charge OF
having murdered his wife. The foreman
announced the decision at $40 o'clock this
afternoon after the jury had been out a few
minutes less than an hour and after one
ballot had been taken. ,
The lawyers closed their arguments at
$50 o'clock. Then for almost an hour the
venerable Judge charged the jury. Care
fully he cited the law in the case and re-
viewed the value of evidence that should
weigh with the jury in making its decision.
At 4:40 o'olock the twelve mel filed down the
cou room aisle and into the jury room
at the head of the stairs. The court room
did not empty until S o'clock, when Judge
Hendrickson declared a recess and went
back to his rooms in the hotel.
Just at $50 O'Clock word came to the
Judge that the jury had agreed. The news
spread quickly down the main street OF the
village, and when the Judge tool his place
behind the desk the dimly lighted chamber
was half Allied with men and women, stand
ing in their expectancy.
The prisoner was brought in and then
the jury took its place.
Frank Brouwer, stand up and look at
the jury" commanded the clerk Of the
court.
Gentlemen OF the jury, look OF the
prisoner. Is your verdict guilty or not
guilty?'
Not guilty said the foreman.
At the words the freed man bowed his
head for a minute and shook his shoulders
with a backward swing as IL Kidding himself
Of a weight. Then a short, sharp cheer, high
pitched because OF the feminine treble
in il, came from the standing spectators.
There was a pause; every one seemed to
be waiting for the mex move.
DR.. Brouwer stepped before the Judges
stand and stood silent for a second. Then
he spoke.
Your Honor, I wish to thank you for
the fairness and im~partiAlity you have
shown in this trial. / greatly appreciate
it,"
He asked the Courts permission to speak
to the jury. Judge Hendrickson granted
il. DR.. Brouwer turned toward the twelve
men who had given him liberty.
Gentlemen OF the jury" he said, Il
rave to thank you for your verdict. You
rave freed me, an innocent man, from
the terrible accusation Of murder. l m
no more innocent now than ! was when |
first came to this court ROOM. GOO knows
l have been always innocent.
Il hope hat il will never be the terrible
misfortune Of any Of you twelve men TO
fall under the shadow that you have Just
lifted from me. May God grant that such
may never happen to any OF you"
The big man stopped and turned to his
lawyers, Wilson, Carmichael and Arrow
smith, and shook each by the hand. This
was a signal for those in the court room
to press forward. DR.. Brouwer's brother 4,
who is a sea captain, was among the first
to reach the side Of the doctor. He threw
one arm around the freed mans shoulder.
and as he shook DR.. Brouwer's hand the
seaman's cap that he clutched in his left
hand beat a tattoo against the physicians
broad back.
Then came friends and ~neighbors, men
and women. Some had tears in their eyes.
Each one greeted the doctor with a choked
word and passed on. Little Elsie Dyer,
who lives across the street from DR.. Brouwer.
lifted up her face and was kissed. For ten
minutes the doctor stood at the rail with
flushed face nd eyes wet with tears answer
ing the congratulations Of his friends.
ne nhu uO huts u NhAMeC CCAeO 80 u
burst Of enthusiasm, snatched OF his cloth
cap and jammed it over the Doctors eyes.
Then arm in arm with Lawyer Carmichae
DR.. Brouwer passed down the aisle, the
people falling to right and left Of him and
lining the ends Of the benches The notes
Of a wedding march would not have sounded
homogeneous.
On the street storekeepers ran to their
stoops to shout at the doctor az he passed.
Fully thirty-three Of the siXty-nine varieties
OF Apologize that make Toms River their
home stopped him to shake his hand. In
Applegate's news store Miss McClenehan,
the young woman whose name was linked
with Brouwer in the trial, was waiting.
The doctor stepped inside the store and she
spoke a few words to him.
Bill, the grave digger, who is not an
Apologize, but who il usually in a bibulous
haze and who was for several months con-
fined with Brouwer in the county Jail, met
the doctor as be was coming out OF the
news store.
why. hello, Doc said Bill. the grave
digger, I'm glad 10 see you out like myself.
But you needn't put on such a face just
cause you're out. l DON'T
A small procession escorted Brouwer up
the street to his house, every window OF
which was brilliantly lighted. A he turned
into the walk leading to the house two
faces pressed against the glass in the bay
window. They were the faces Of Twin and
Allen, the doctors two little boys.
Before he had put his foot on the first
step the door opened and old Mrs. Calver-
Icy, the doctors mother, and the two boys
ran out. The doctor picked both boys up
in his arms and. holding them close TO his
heart, he kissed his mother. Then they
passed into the house. Before the door
closed the shrill voice Of n Ct the young
sters was heard:
"Oh. papa, where have you been all this
long timer
just before he went to his house DR.,
Brouwer replied to the question OF one OF
his friends, what am I going to dop Why
go to work. he said. mo, I certainly
will not leave WI Why should Ip'
After the jury had rendered the verdict
one OF them said that at the time Miss
Elizabeth Hyer alleged. on the stand yester-
day that she and Mrs. Trevonian HyeI
had overheard Attorney Wilson and DR.
Marshall comforting OF evidence the former