Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-09
BRUTAL SLAYER. OF SULLIVAN MUST MOUNT /. GALLOWS Circumstantial Evidence Convinces Jurors Of Murderer's
 Guilt CONDEMNED MAN HEARS FATE NONCHALANTLY VERDICT GETS CONTAMINATION GENERALLY IN TALK
 ABOUT PRESCOTT
 STREETS
CONDEMNED MAN HEARS FATE
 NONCHALANTLY
We, the jury. find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and fix the penalty as death.
From Fridays Daily)


 Such was the verdict returned by the jury in the ease of Frank Spence, charged with the murder of Edgar R. Sullivan at the Spence ranch. five miles west of the city, on October %. The announcement that verdict had been reached was made by the jury after three hours dclibcration at s:30 o'clock last evening. Judge Sloan was notified and came promptly to court
 The calling of the Jury was delayed thirty minutes on account of the fail. ure of the officers to find Attorney James Loy, counsel for the defense.
 Attorney Loy failing to appear. the jury was called in court at 9 o'clock. When asked if they had agreed up. on n verdict, George Wood, foreman of the jury arose and answered that the verdict was murder in tae first de. gree.
 The verdict was then read by Judge anu "s att'f clerk of tho court. who in solemn tones read the document: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and fix the penalty as dcath.'
 To the question, "Is that your verdict, gentlemenf" the members of the jury answered "yes," The court fixed Saturday as the date of sentence and excused the jury until this morn ing at Q O clock.
 Condemned to pay the death penal. ty for ono of the most atrocious mur- ders in the history of the county and territory, the condemned man, the principal in several other snootings for which he had been acquitted, walked out of the courtroom in charge of Sheriff Lowry and Under Sheriff Nea. as nonchalantiy as when he related his version of the shooting from the witness stand in the early afternoon. No neeting blush over the pallor of his eountenance betrayed any compunc- ton or shame for the atrocious crime for which twelve men decided thirty minutes before he should pay the pen. alty with his life.
 In appearance he was as unkempt Rs usual, but the brazen bravado with which he. faced his accused in former trials as we'll as this appeared not to have forsaken him. He silently passed through the crowd from the courtroom in charge of the officers to the county jail, where he was safely placed behind the bars.
 On the streets and in the cafes the verdict was the subject of discussion last night, the members of the jury being generally commended for tho discharge of the high moral, although unpleasant duty imposed upon them Before the verdict was returned ever, one who heard the evidence admitte, that a verdic, of guilty of murder h the first degree would be returned bu few appeared to believe that lif' imprisonment would be the penalty oi account of the age of the defendant who confessed to 55 years during tn trial. The enormity of the odensc am the cowardiy manner in which tn crime was committed, according the evidence, convinced all, however that Spence should be meted out th death penalty.
 The fact that the murdered man wa the third person named Sullivan shC by Spence was also the subject ( comment among those familiar vii spence's questionable acts.
 In a drunken orgie, Spence shot ar wounded Tom Sullivan in the top { the head in tho Sazersc saloon he several years ago. The bullet crease Tom sullivao's skull. Spence was c onorated from this shooting. Aft