Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
Demonstration in Court
After Verdict is
Returned.
WILL SOON GO WEST
Eleven Members of Jury for
AcquittaI, Other Demanding
Some Punishment.

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jury in the case of Mrs. Annie M.
Bradley, charged with the killing of
former Senator Brown of Utah re-
turned verdict of mot Guilty at 9
o'clock this morning.
DEMONSTRATION FOLLOWS.
When the court asked the jury if
they had reached a verdict the fore
man answered.:
I'VE have"
whats your verdict gentlemen?"
mot Guilty,
demonstration of applause follow.
ed the announcement of the verdict.
LEAVES IN AUTOMOBILE.
Mrs. Bradley was Immediately dis
charged from custody and left the
court house in an automobile following
an ovation. She will leave in a few
days to join her sister at GoIdfieId, New.
stood II to L for AcquittaI.
Throughout its deliberations the jury
tai until the final ballot, when the
| lone juror, who was holding out for
some form of punishment, Juror julius
H. Prigg. gave in, and verdict of ac-
quittal was agreed on.
Women start Demonstration.
When the jurors were polled and
each gave his verdict of mot guilty."
there was moment of silence, follow
ed by a murmuring Thank Cod from
"a group of women who sat on the front
bench. which was the signal for DEM
onstration. The prisoner sat directly
back of Attorney Hoover, her counsel.
She was dressed in black, and with
Suppressed excitement watched the
jury. There We're tears in her eyes,
but she bore up bravely, and there
We're no indications OF collapse, as
might have been expected at the crisis
of such an ordeal.
| Receives Congratulations.
She was Immediately surrounded by
linen and women from among the spec
tators, who pressed upon her their
congratulations. She returned TO the
cell from which she had come to hear
the verdict, and there she received q
few visitors. She thanked them for
their congratulations and expressed
her relief at the conclusion of the
trial.
| Locked Up for Night.
> Washington. Dec. 3.-The jury con-
sidering the case of Mrs. Annie NJ.
Bradley, slayer of former Senator
Brown of Utah, was locked up for the
night at 10 O'Clock last night. 1t had
reported there was no prospect of
Preaching verdict.
After a hearing lasting almost three
. weeks the attorneys for the defense
and prosecution made their final ad-
dresses yesterday and Judge Stafford
made his charge to the jury, which
: occupied 81 minutes and concluded at
' 4:17.
III New Argument Brought Forth.
ii A new point brought out in the ar
: gument bore on Mrs. Bradley's inten.
, tions when she started on the inter.
3 rupted trip from Salt Lake to Ogden
: en- route to Los Angeles. The gov
/ ernment contended that the fact tt@f
on arrival here she called at a hotel
for her mail indicated that when she
left Salt Lake she really purposed
coming here to see Brown.
The court permitted the defense to
refute this by quoting from the evi
: ldence to show that after Mrs. Brad
ley started she changed her mind
stopped at Ogden, telephoned her sister
at Salt Lake that she had decided tc
go to Washington and then proceeded
o there.
Judge Explains Law.
,fI Judge Stafford's charge, among
g other things, set forth that a person i:
!, mentally responsible in law when ht
. is capable of understanding the ply
lsical nature of his act, of understand
ing whether the act is right or wrong
and must be capable of controllin,
C his action and of choosing the righ
and refraining from the wrong. Men
:. tai incapacity must be the result o
IL mental disease.
70 The law distinguishes sharply be
tween disease and mere passion.
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