The Prescott daily news., 1910-12-10
UNWR|TTEN LAW
 FREES MOORE VINCENNEs JURY RETURNS VER- DICT OF ACQUITTAL IN
 MURDER CASE. ENDS DRAMATIC TRIAL Sacrifice of Wife of Accused in Tes- tlfylng Gives Him Liberty
 Jurors Remained Out
 Eight Hours.
ENDS DRAMATIC TRIAL

Vincennes, Ind, Dec. 10.-The sac rifice made by Mrs. Menlo E. Moore, when she barred her soul to jury to save her husband from conviction on charge of murdering Charles Ed ward Gibson, a millionaire oil man, was not in vain.
 Moore was acquitted and now is free man.
 The jury was out eight hours.
 The trial was one of the most dra- matic ever heard in Indiana and rivaled the famous Thaw trial In New York for popular interest. There was remarkable similarity between the two cases, and the story told by Mrs. Moore before gaping curiosity seek CTS was no less unselfish and soul rending than that by which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw attempted to save her husband from conviction for staying Stanford White, the architect.
 Mrs Moore toll how Gibson had rogged her for months and how, finally, by relating a story of her hus- bands alleged perfL ?, he induced her to go to a barn in tlo country with him to see Moore keeping date" with two stenographers.
 Bring in Sealed Verdict.
 When they arrived at the barn, she said, he overpowered her. From that time on, she said, he used her shame as a weapon with which to whip her Into submission to his demands.
 Judge Cobb had left the courtroom but fifteen minutes before, giving or ders that should the jurors reach a verdict 1t should be sealed and read at the opening of court.
 The members of the jury, after giv ing the sealed verdict to the bailiff were taken to hotel for the night.
 Judge Cobb's instructions to the jury covered every point raised in the evidence. Besides giving instructions on all questions involved ordinarily in a murder case, including first and second degree murder, and voluntary and involutary manslaughter, the court said there was no middle ground.
 Insanity Should Acquit
 He said Moore either was insane or he was sane when he killed Gibson; that an insane person who stays is not guilty of crime; that the presump- tion of innocence is not intended to aid the guilty to escape; that the failure of Moore to testify raised mo presumption against him; that if the jury found the confession of Moore's led him to kill Gibson when he sud denly came upon him the jury should acquit
 The judge said that if the jury should become convinced that Moore was of sound mind at the time, it should convict and fix the degree of crime; that if the jury agreed that Moore was sane, but doubted his guilt of murder either in the first or sec ond degree, then it should consider the crime of manslaughter; that the defendant must be sane and must have shot wilfully and maliciously to be guilty of first degree murder; that a temporary dethronement of the mind through jealousy or revenge could not be set forth as a plea of insanity, as such does not constitute within the meaning of the law.
 The court impressed the jurors that they must not disregard the law. the courts instructions and the evi- dence and be swayed by popular sen timent
 Mrs. Moore declared she believed the revelation of her shame to her husband drove him insane. Four alienists testified that Moore was in- sane when he shot Gibson and their testimony was relied upon to help acquit him.