The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-25
District Attorney Baker Makes
Sensational Demand for the
Punishment of Ted Collier
JUDGE NOT READY FOR ACTION
Asks That the Arguments in Regard
to the Penalty Be Written Up and
Will Take Up the Case Later
in the Present Month

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fore noon Friday District Attorney
Baker demanded that the court SEN
tence "Ted" Collier, recently con-
victed Of manslaughter, to the state
prison at Waupun, declaring that the
best interests of the community could
not be properly conserved without
such a sentence. The speech of the
district attorney was one of the most
impressive ever made in the court
room and in case in which such
great interest is being taken it proved
a profound sensation.
Before Mr.. Baker spoke, Attorney
/ W. S. Forrest had made plea for
leniency for the accused man and had
| argued in favor of motion for a new
trial, but the argument was lost sight
of in the plea of the district attorney
and Mr.. Forrest in regard to the pun
ishment to be meted out. Judge
| Belden was noticeably moved by the
arguments and if he had made up his
mind as to the sentence for Collier
when the argument began, it was not
made up when the argument closed
and he asked the stenographer to
write up the arguments in regard to
the penalty and at the same time an
nounced that he might not be ready
to impose punishment on Collier for
several days. 1t is possible that the
matter will be taken up tomorrow, but
| the judge stated that he desired to
think over It and that it might be
some time before Collier was again
called into court.
| Attorney Forrest had spoken for
more than an hour in urging the mo-
ton for new trial and in presenting
| his view of the penalty that should be
| imposed should the motion be denied.
AS ne finished his argument, Attor-
ney Baker stepped before the bench,
and in low voice began his argu-
| ment. ST hardly know said Mr..
Baker, "what becomes my duty at
this time, whether should ask for
penitentiary sentence for Ted Collier
or join with Mr.. Forrest in asking for
fine. AS Mr.. Forrest has put it, a
genial old man was killed by an arto-
mobile along the road north of Keno
sha, and the jury has said that Ted
Collier took that life and that he was
responsible for his death. That night
no mercy was shown to that genial
old man as they let him lie along the
road where he was run down, and to-
day the remains of that old man lie
in the cemetery out south of the city,
| a monument to the culpable negli-
gence of Collier and his associates -
AT this point Mr.. Baker had some
thing to say in regard to the purpose
of punishment and declared that it
was not only to punish the accused
but to deter repetition of crime. He
stated that the punishment of Collier
should be for lesson to the COM
munity that the value of human life
was not held as cheap and that the
other men in the community should
know that it was notfpossiblesfor men
to GO ahead and kill without fear of
punishment more than fine. ''No
money, he declared, can be adequate
for the crime of taking the life of
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not be made up by the payment of
| dollars and cents and for this reason
| believe that it is my duty under my
oath Of Office to ask that Ted Collier
be punished by prison term COM
mensurate with the crime charged"
With the close of the argument by
the district attorney the attorneys for
the defendant at once asked that they
be permitted to file motion for an
arrest of judgment pending their
appeal of the case to the supreme
court and Judge Be1den announced
he would do with Collier at this time.
The proposition of prison tern for
Collier was an unexpected one as it
had been generally supposed that the
district attorney would be satisfied to
have Collier fined. However, the
long argument on the matter seemed
to indicate that the court was consid-
ering prison sentence.
The formal motion for a new trial
was filed this morning and the new
trial was asked on the following
grounds:
First-Because the Court erred in
denying the motion to direct verdict
of mot guilty., which motion was
made on behalf of the defendant at
the close of the evidence for the
prosecution.
Second Because the Court erred
in denying the motion to direct a
verdict of mot guilty., which motion
was made on behalf of the defendant
at the close of all of the evidence in
the case.
Third-Because the Court erred in
linstructing the jury as indicated in
the written exceptions on file.
Fifth-Because the verdict is con-
trary to law.
Sixth-Because the verdict is con
trary to the evidence.
Seventh Because the verdict is
not supported by the evidence.
In stating these cases for a new
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