Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-16
JURY on GROVE CASE
Deliberations by Twelve Men Begin at Late
Hour Of the Night,
COUNTY ATTORNEY CLOSES THE ARGUMENT
All Day Jury and Hundreds of People
Listen to Lawyers.
FOUR OF THEM PLEAD, TWO ON EACH SIDE
nrnrpais nnnfassinn as Emhodied in Letter 70
FOUR OF THEM PLEAD, TWO ON EACH SIDE
Groves Confession as Embodied in Letter to
Priest Vital Point.
DEFENSE DEPENDS ON WEAKNESS or STATE
Says that L. why Il Did Not
Make n More Extensive Fight
with witnesses of
Its own.

After trial lasting eight days the fate
of Pat Grove was committed to the hands
OF the jury at 1896 last night At that
time the jurymen filed out of the court
| room to the jury room in the basement,
where they were locked up for their de-
! liberations. Judge Sutton remained in the
court room until 1l:SU, when he left for
| his home with instructions that he would
not return to hear verdict. II one should
be reached. until this morning II the
| jury should agree during the night he or
dered that it remain in the jury room until
he reached the court house In the morn
! ing
County Attorney slabaugh finished his
closing argument of almost three hours at
$3.50, and without wasting any time Judge
Sutton read his instructions, which were
rather long and required almost fifteen
minutes to finish. At the close he ordered
| the crowd in the court room to remain
| i'm place until the Jurors had left the room.
| The people were packed go closely around
| the doors that the bailiffs had TO force
their way through in order to clear path
for the twelve men. While a large number
of the people left after the defendant had
been taken from the room handcuffed to
! Deputy Sheriff Haze. hundreds remained
until after Judge Sutton left and the bailifrs
|
OF these were women. some OF whom had
been in constant attendance at the trial
since it's beginning. AS early as 6 o'clock
throngs of people were their way to
the court house in order TO get good posi-
tions to hear the final proceedings
Grove Center of Attraction.
Pat Grove, who is charged with one of
the most sensational crimes in history was
the center of attraction. Among the hun
dreds of men and women present more of
| them were there to see Grove than to hear
| the arguments of the lawyers. Every move
he made was carefully noted. After the
| jury had left the room the crowd broke
into the space inside the railing and
| formed circle around the defendant Some
of the more forward began shaking hands
with him while the rest stood staring at
him until Deputy Sheriff Haze led him,
| somewhat embarrassed by the commotlon
fhe, was causings back TO the Jail TO walt
for a verdict ksfeflf
Among the most interested of the specta-
tors about l50 young boys. They
were eagerly climbing on anything handy
| that would give them a sight of the de-
fendant Finally Judge Sutton ordered Pro-
baton Officer Bernstein to remove them
from the room and he obeyed the order
as far as he was able. Many of them still
hung around the hall TO watch the de-
fendant as he was led away. During the
interval between the time the Jury with
drew and the closing of the court room at
II 80 the crowd lounged around and talked.
Instructions of Court.
| The instructions given by Judge Sutton
were about the same those usually given
in such cases. The interest centered in
| the one regarding the nature of the crime
Lob he IaFaA hoA 40 RoIf
to have an instruction TO the effect that
violence threatened against one person to
induce another person to give up money
was not robbery. but Judge Sutton held
| with the state that the allegations would,
If proved. constitute the crime of robbery.
The Instructions also were to the effect
that verdict of guilty could be returned
upon only one of the two counts charged
in the information. If the jury returned
a verdict of guilty on count No. 1t was
instructed to return verdict of not guilty
upon the other and vice versa. The only
difference in the counts is that one charges
the money was taken through force and
violence and putting in fear" while the
second did not charge force and violence.
but only putting in fear"
AT an early hour this morning the watch
ers outside the jury room We're notified by
the animated argument progressing within
that the twelve men had not been able up
to that time to agree on verdict.
Court Room and Halls Thronged
The court room and adjacent halls we're
crowded when court convened for the final
session a few minutes after o'clock. Many
Of the spectators at the afternoon session
returned TO the court room after lunch and
took their places an hour before time for
beginning. People continued 10 force their
way into the doors until every nook and
Granny In the room was occupied. 1t is es-
timated almost LOCO people were present by
o'clock
County Attorney sIabaugh began his ar
gument at once without any preliminaries
The first part Of his remarks =erc OF q per
sonal nature I'm reply TO intimations made
by Mr.. Ritchie that he was Influenced by
money in the prosecution of the case Mr.
Ritchie objected TO a statement by Mr. Sla-
baugh that Father Murphy was sick and
could not come To Omaha. Judge Sutton
directed him that there was nothing I'm the
evidence 20 show that and II ought not 90
be referred TO, Mr.. Slabaugh asked why
the defense did not call Father Murphy IL
II thought the letter was not sent to Mr..
Cudahy by him. He then went into a dis
cussion Of the evidence establishing the
crime and declared there could be no doubt
about the $500, trustworthy witnesses
had sworn TO the whereabouts OF the money
in detail. He pointed out that exactness In
detail In the evidence OF large number OF
witnesses would be taken as an indication
that the evidence had been Fixed" He
spent considerable time discussing the iden-
tihcation OF the defendant and his picture
by the witnesses. The fact that Grove was
seen frequently in company with James
Callahan Just before the KIDNAPPING ne held
TO be a suspicious circumstance After
covering the evidence Mr., Slabaugh read
the letter from the hdnapers found In the
Cudahy front yard.
Al the morning session Deputy County
Attorney Fitch devoted half an hour TO
finishing his arguments. begun Wednesday.
and Mr.. English. for the defense, at once
plunged into his plea for Grove. At u
o'clock. after he had talked an hour and
half, he said he would want . little