Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-16

Such was the verdict returned by the jury at s:45 o'clock last night in the ease of F.. D. Hurley, charged with the murder of F. J. Conray, after an hours deliberation.
 The case was gwen to the jury at 6:30 o'clock after a five days trial.
 The jury was returned to the jury room at 7:30 o'clock after supper. At s:30 o'clock the foreman announced 10 the officer in charge that a verdict had been reached.
 At $50 o'clock the jury walked in. to the courtroom and announced the verdict in the presence of the court, counsel for both sides and tne audi. ence which filled the courtroom.
 When the verdict was read, the de. fendant, who has been enjoying his liberty under tl0,000 bail, leaned backward in his chair. He sat un. moved as the document pronouneing him a convicted felon was read. The sinister smile which he displayed wa.n District Attorney Morrison eloquently and bitterly arraigned him in his clos. ing argument to the jury, had deserted him and was replaced by an ashen pal. Tor that crept slowly over his counte nance as he realized for the first time that he was condemned to the life of n felon for his remaining days.
 His interest renewed in tne proceed. ings, however, when the district attor. ney requested the court to order him taken into custody by the sheriff by raising slightly in his seat and await.
 ing the order of the court as he still hoped that he would be allowed his liberty pending the decision of the court on a motion for a new trial.
 His demeanor as he left the court in charge of the sheriff indicated for the first time during the trial that he re- alized the heinousness of his offense when on May If of this year his con duet in shooting to deatn Fred J. Conrny left widow to struggle for n living for herself and eight fatherless children, the oldest only thirteen years and the youngest only twelve months old, with no earthly possessions but few hundred dead of goats.
 iHt WhN oht ui Ah' hNh'h , der cases in the territory of recent , years. Every technicality in criminal , law was invoked by Attorneys ]. F Wilson and Reese NJ. Ling on behali , of tae deefndant IL was as bitterly fought by District Attorney R. F
 Morrison and his assistant, J. C. For est. Morrison's closing argument wa ! pronounced one of the ablest eyel
 made in a criminal ease before th' | local bar. His eloqent plea that jus To tice be meted out to Hurley for mur a dering the husband of the mother who sat in court with her fatherles . children, brought tears to the eyes O | many in the audience and ais refer
 ence to the evidence of May Conray the eight year-old daughter of the mur dered man, the only eye witness L s the tragedy, supported by the tessi c mony of her mother and Tilden Scott E and only contradieted by the defen e dant himself, appeared to convinc IT everyone who had heard the evidenc n that Hurley was guilty of the erim , with which he was charged.
 '" May ConTsy told the same story O
 the shooting of her father at the tria lthat she did to the eoroner's jury
 few hours after seeing her father sac n to death on the side of Bull Hill. l IS her innocent and guileless way she r' e pested her statements on cross exam :, ination, looking traight into the eye
 of Colonel Wilson, who was makin
 the effort of his legal career to hay u the jury declare the slayer of he father blameless for his crime. Sh g repeated how she was standing on th a. hillside overlooking Hurley's residenc Ig and of seeing him stand in the doo ,e and shoot at her father. She relate |. how Hurley went to the corral near h
 house and fired two more shots at h' father while the latter was comin U down towards Hurley to get withi
 range of Hurley to return the fire wit
 his shotgun.
 She admitted seeing Der father hr
 two shots and of seeing him retreat VI D. the hill when the third shell stuck 8 ais gun and of seeing Hurley shoot | il him again twice, and of seeing h' le father fall after the fifth shot. sl k. saw Hurley enter his house and T
 turning. fire five shots at her fath' 'e as he lay bleeding 10 eeath with 's. wound in his back iD a elump of bus
 e on tae hillside.
 y.I In addition 10 her mothers test n mony, little Mays evidence was co