The log cabin Democrat., 1909-01-16
CARTWRIGHT
 GETS 2I YEARS
W|FE-MURDERERI IS CONVICTED
Jury, After Long Deliberations,
 Reaches Verdict.
Convicted Man was Absolutely Unmoved by Decision or the Jury
 Court Proceedings.

James Cartwright, guilty of mur- der in tue second degree and fix his punishment at 2I years in the penitentiary. T. J. Middleton, Foreman.
 The above verdict was returned in the Faulkner circuit court at ten o'clock this morning, after the jury had spent nearly 24 hours in an apparently vain endeavor to come to an agreement. The jury at first stood eight for conviction to four for acquittal, those favoring conviction differing among them selves as to the degree of the pun ishment. It was not nntil this this morning that united verdict seemed in any way possible.
 Cartwright, who had sat through the entire trial with an expression of utter imbecility on his face, was absolutely unmoved by the reading of the verdict and there are many who believed that he did not con- prehend what the jury's decision meant.
 Cartwright's Crime.
 James w. Cartwright shot and killed his wife, Maud Cartwright, at their home two miles west of Wooster, at nine o'clock on the morning of Thursday, August 2I. The tragedy was a horrible one, Cartwright firing at the defenseless woman without warning. The first shot failed to inflict mortal wound, and as she ran from him he reloaded his gun and fired the second time, and then went up to his prostrate victim, placed the muzzle of his gun close to her neck and fired the third time, the dis charge almost tearing her head from her body.
 Cartwright fled after the killing and was not captured until the night of the second day following, when, worn out and famished, he approached the house of J. J. Dick ems near Greenbrier and asked for food and was shortly afterward ar rested. While he was hiding. he said that he spent most of the time sitting in the edge of stream, with water up to his neck, and his head concealed in the bushes.
 The indignation of the people in his neighborhood was so intense over the crime that special grand jury was called by Judge Eugene Lank ford, converting on Sept. IS. This grand jury returned an indict- ment against Cartwright for mur- der i'll the first degree.
 Defense was Insanity.
 Cartwright made no effort to em- ploy counsel and the court ap- pointed Judge P. H. Prince and George Shaw to defend him. The facts of the killing were admitted, the sole defense being insanity. Evideuce was introduced to show that he had on several former oc- casions become mentally deranged, and that he had received several injuries about the head in accl- dents. The state introduced to testimony to show that the rela- tions between Cartwright and his wife were not amicable and that he suspected her of inhdelity, thus proving a motive for the crime.
 The jury's decision was based upon an instruction of Judge Lank- ford to the effect that if the grand jury found that Cartwright, while possessing a knowledge of right and wrong, was mentally deranged to such an extent that the killing was not premeditated, they could render verdict of murder in the second degree.
 The verdict of the jury was received with expressions of satis- faction by almost everyone. The trial was long and expensive to the county, costing according to an es- timate by County Judge Lea this morning, in the neighborhood of SI5oo. Opinion was greatly di- vided as to Cartwright's sanity, but,the sentiment was almost un- aniinous that he ought not to be allowed liberty.
 The sentence will be pronounced either late this afternoon or Monday morning, and it is not thought that the case will be appealed.
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