Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-22
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and 1 grabbed for that. We struggled over
the revolver and four times it went off.
1 was afraid to let loose of It for fear she
would shoot me. Finally she screamed and
rushed into another room. The revolver fell
to the floor. I knew she was shot. I picked
up the pistol to shoot myself and just
then the police rushed in. One of them
said: How can you shoot yourself without
the CYLINDER The cylinder had fallen out
of the pistol when It fell to the floor"
Then Reed broke down and sobbed out
that he had been convicted by a jury on
which there was one man blind and another
deaf. He asked for mercy that he could
get out and live the remainder of his life
in Nebraska, caring for the son of the
woman he killed.
Judge Day. who tried Reed as district
judge, told Governor Hopewell he thought
Reed had received an excessive sentence
compared with other cases he had tried
since and that he believed a sentence of ten
years would have been sufficient. This case
Judge Day said was the first of the kind
he ever tried. In his Instructions to the
jury in describing murder in the first de-
gree his s~tenographer left out the word
''purposely." This. he said, may nave in
fluenced the jury. and Judge Sedgwick in
his dissenting opinion. when Reed was re-
fused a new trial, said this was error.
Attorney Scott appeared for Reed, but
made only a short statement, letting his
case rest upon the statement Of Judge Day
and Reed.
Bogus Game Laws.
Merchants out in some Of the small towns
of the state are patronizing a travelling adj
vertising man. instead of their local news
papers. and consequently are liable to get
innocent parties into trouble. The scheme
being worked is to print on a card the game
laws for 1eOs-O9 and sell advertising space
on the cards to the merchants. Copies of
the card have been received by Game War
den Carter, who denounced the man who
is doing the business. as a mighty bad man.
Here is what Mr.. Carter said:
There are no game laws for 19OS-O9. The
legislature which is shortly to meet may
change all Of the game laws now on the
statute books. The circulation of these
cards might get innocent parties into
trouble because they might think they are
really the game laws of the state. The
man who got up the advertising scheme
did not even use the present game laws.
1 have written to several parties who have
sent me cards and told they are all wrong
insofar as they relate to the game laws"
MI. Carter received some of the cards from
Fairbury this morning and they contained
advertising matter from merchants of that
town. -sF
No Statutes for Legislators.
Secretary of State Junkin desires to serve
notice on members of the Legislature who
have been reelected that they must bring
with them to Lincoln this winter their
copies Of the statutes which were sent them
at the close of the last legislature. II they
do not then they will have to guess at the
law. for the secretary has no more to give
them.
Convict Returns to Prison.
Convict Russell. who has been out on
parole for some months. turned up at the
pentitentiary this morning bright and
smiling and asked to be aiken back. He
wanted to get in on that Christmas dinner.
He has been paroled to a man out in From
tier county, but the cold weather drove
him back home.