Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-23

IN the hands of the jury of - men
sworn to give her fair trial an,
render an impartial verdict in ac
cordance with the evidence submit
ted' is she guilty of cold-bloodet
willfui and deliberate murder. or !,
she wholly innocent? Did she aif
ana aoet the person who fou,l,
murdered her husband, or did she
not Whatever private and indi.
'iuual opinion may be, the fate o,
Nancy Bachus will hang unon IN.
verdict of the Jurors, who are now
the sole judges.
Inc case went to the jury late
this afternoon, after a whole da,
spent In the arguments before the
jury by counsel for the state and 70,
the defense.
Ihe material points of the evi-
dence were the several statements o1
the defendant, conflicting and con-
Trajectory. which the state claims
are damaging and the defense
claims were secured under such cir.
cumstances which destroy their
materiality. The attendant suspi-
cious circumstances were set I'M nv
the state and denied by the defense.
The argument or counsel in the de-
velopment of the theories of the
prosecution and Of the defense was
followed closely by an audience that
crowded the courtroom at both the
morning and afternoon sessions. The
case was opened for the state by At
torney Miles S. Johnson, who was
followed by Attorney s. O. Tanna-
hill for the defense. In the after
noon Attorney G. w. Tannahill clos
ed for the defense, and County At
,orney Needham concluded for the
state.
Clear Nancy Bachus because she
is liar and you open the doorway
for all crimes, and your wife and my
wife, your child and my child may
be made the victim of foul murder,
and the one committing the deed
may make many conflicting state
ments and be cleared because of the
precedent of this theory" was the
concluding statement with which
Attorney Miles s. Johnson closed
the opening argument for the state
in the Bachus case this morning,
where, in speech of more than an
hour and half in length, he re-
viewed the evidence under the the
ory of the prosecution that Nancy
Bachus, either fired the fatal shoc
or was aiding and abetting the per-
son who did the bloody deed.
Attorney Johnson went step by
step over the details of the several
statements of the defendant and
dwelt on the incriminating ei.'cum-
stances. He pointed out the length
of time that elapsed between the
firing of the first shot as testified to
have been at O'Clock and 9 O'Clock,
when the defendant appeared at the
home of Mrs. Rankin only a quar-
ter of a mile away. This distance
could be covered leisurely in space
Of less than four minutes, but the
defendant was nearly an hour max
ing the distance, and when the Ran
kin boys went to the scene IT the
tragedy there were only a few stud
ding and rafters of the burned
dwelling and the burned, bleeding
and unrecognizable body of the
murdered man.
He attacked the character OF the
defendant. who. pleading innocence
Pttacked the character OF her dead
defaming him in the pres
cnce of the officers in sworn state
pent, as if to justify the taking OF
his life because of his brutal treat
,,ent of her. He called attention 70
the fact that she would willingly
sacrifice the liberty and perhaps the
lives of innocent men to shield her
s,1f or some one else. and cited the
statements charging Mccall and An
derson with the shooting of heT hus-
band.
Attorney Johnson dwelt upon the
;mnrobabjlitv of the theory OF the
defense that ]. NJ. Bachus came 70