Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-16

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Miles Morrow walked from the Wa
pelloj county jail this afternoon a
free man. The jury was out three
hours and thirty minutes. Shortly be-
fore 2:30 o'clock the announcement
was made that the jury was ready to
report.
Call the attorneys" said the court.
Within five minutes Mr. Duke and
Mr.. Jaques, counsel for the defendant,
and County Attorney Cornell and his
assistant. Attorney Mitchell, had as
sembled in the court room. Miles Nor
row came in, flushed of face and I'M
steady of tread and took his seat be-
tween his attorneys, who whispered
something to him. and he family smil-
ed.
Foreman ]. E. Harmony then
transferred the verdict to Clerk Phil
lips, who read with clear voice:
I'VE, the jury, find the defendant
not guilty" Signed. j. E, Harmony,
foreman
Morrow Immediately leaped to his
feet and with broad smile on his
face made his way to the jury box
and grasped the first man by the hand,
but as the jury had not yet been ex-
cused, the judge said, "Wait mo-
ment, Mr. Morrow"
AS soon as the court had discharg-
ed the jury, Mr.. Morrow stoutly shook
the hand of each man.
"You are discharged from custody,
Mr.. Morrow" said the court.
The court room was filled with
spectators, who evinced no emotions
after the verdict had been rendered.
The Courts Instructions.
County Attorney Cornell finished his
argument to the jury shortly before II
O'Clock this forenoon and the charge
of Judge Eichelberger was then read
to the jury The instructions covered
26 typewriter pages and were sim
liar to those of Judge Anderson in
the former trial Of the case.
lmpeached Witnesses.
In speaking of the witnesses the
judge said: Evidence has been intro.
duced to show that the general moral
character of the witnesses John Boyd,
Almeda Boyd. Mary Judson, w. M.
Young, Kittie Farrell. Leona Brown,
Lou Garner, Lizzie Keith and James
Orr, witnesses for the state; and Sadie
Halter, Eva Wright Sherman Good
win, Gertie Carlisle, Tom Hourihan,
Lottie Minnick. Myrtle Finley Fred
Smith, w. H. or Grip" Lewis. Allie
Whaley, Joe Crawford Walter w.
"Speck' Booz, Jake Wright ano Buck
Williams for the defense, in the neigh
borhood in which they live, is bad"
Weigh ii Carefully.
You should consider and weigh
this evidence and allow it such weight
as you believe 1t entitled to and de-
termine from it whether such wit
nesses or either of them, have been
successfully impeached,' the judge
went on.
Self Defense.
The judge went into details as to
what constitutes self-defense in the
eyes of the law. He stated that if a
man had reasonable grounds to be.
lieve that his own life was in actual
danger by the words or actions of al
assailant that he was then entitled to
resort to the necessary means of pro.
lection, even to the taking of the life
OF an assailant.
Black as Denizens of Row.
In his argument Mr.. Cornell paint
ed the defendant as "the boy from
the farm who had strayed far from
the fold when he brought up in Smo
ky Row. Morrow" said he, lis as
black and immoral as the denizens OF
the row with whom he associated"
Mr.. Cornell did not ask the death
penalty, as personally he is opposed
to capital punishment and did no,