Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
LAURA CARTER ACQUITTED
MAY CLAIM $7,4OO REWARD FOR
GIVING RUNYAN UP.
Jury Decides She Wasn't Guilty of
Taking $4,000 to Hide Windsor
Trust Teller.

NEW YORK, September Laura NJ.
Garter was acquitted yesterday of criminal
ly receiving 5000 to hide Chester B. Run
yam, who stole $4,000 from the Windsor
Trust Company. 1t took the jury thirty-tive
minutes to reach its verdict.
After Runyan had disappeared a reward
was offered OF 10 per cent of the amount of
money recovered. and also of $1,000 for the
conviction of Runyan. When Runyan was
taken into custody s54.41o was found on
him. 1t was Mrs. Carter who turned Run
yam over to the police, and now she has
been acquitted of any crime in connection
with the stealing of the money. Runyan
has been convicted and will be sentenced
later on.
On the basis of the 10 per cent reward
and the 5000 for the conVit ton of Runyan
1t was figured out yesterday that her law
Ners would seek to get for her reward of
$',4i1. When her lawyers We're asked about
II they said that nothing mad been decided
on but II is understood that Mrs. Carter
VIII try to get the money from the trust
company.
Money Still Missing.
OF the money stolen from the trust COM
pany $1,000 has not been accounted for
Runyan swore that Mrs. Carter got $4,000
from him, but she denied it. There was
10000 which disappeared and nobody has
pttli dDlt 10 lhu II. ftu1lNdll, VINO has
pleaded guilty to grand larceny, will be SEN
fenced by Judge Whitman, before whom
Mrs. Carter was tried.
Mrs. Carter, who had cried most of the
day while the lawyers were summing up.
was worn out when the jury returned rs
verdict shortly after ) O'Clock. When she
heard the verdict she said she was going to
leave the gay life of the Tenderloin and
turn to Eer-home in Baltimore. Her sister.
known as Broadway Flo, waited at her
- too not, l,,,l
Baltimore.
Kirkstein's Disappearance
Counsel for Mrs. Carter scored a point
on the prosecution yesterday. 1t was
brought out that Harry Kirkstein, who had
lived with Mrs. Carter had not been held
as witness against Mrs. Carter, but as a
witness against Runyan. He did not APP
pear at Mrs. Carriers trial and his bail
7"as forfeited. Counsel for Mrs. Carter
brought out that he had not been sub
poenaed. Judge Whitman charged the jury
that it was not to consider anything that
had been said about the disappearance of
kirkstein.
Henry NJ Goldfogle, who made the final
plea for Mrs. Carter, made a long reference
to her immoral life, saying that it did not
mean that she was thief After Assist
ant District Attorney Marshall had pre-
sented his side Judge Whitman charged
the jury. 1t was the most important case
general sessions bench, and his charge was
considered fair TO both sides. He said, in
part:
Judges Charge.
1T is customary in cases where con-
ditions are as they are in this case for the
court to charge the jury that they must
not be influenced or prejudiced affected or
biased by the SEX of the defendant In &C
cordance with this time honored custom l
so charge you.
But l do not believe for one moment
that 1t would be possible to call any jury
IN any county in the state of New York
that would not be affected by the fact
that the prisoner Is woman. And l am
not SO sure that it is not to the everlasting
credit of manhood that this is true
But | do charge you that you must not
be unduly influenced; that you must not let
your sympathy sway you; that you must
not let your feelings run away with your
pathy get the better of your reason in this
case.
1T is our boast that rich and poor, high
and low, and men and women are on an
equality before the law, but equality before
the law involves the equal obligation to
obey the law we'll as an equal right to
Its protection"
On the first ballot the Jury stood nine to
three for conviction. Then one of the
jurors, who had asked many questions in
the course of the trial, said that no one
man who was a bank defaulter, a thief, an
absconder and deserter of his family
could be trusted. Thereupon the jury voted
for acquittal