The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-12
TWELVE YEARS
FOR DOCTOR
Miller Gets that Term, Mrs, sayler
Gets Three Years, While John
Grunden is Set
Free
sAYLER JURY REPORT
After Thirty-six Hours of Deliberaton
the Jury Comes to an Agree
ment in the Murder
Trial.

! ~ - NINA, ll%l<., "A VI II w -
liam r. Miller and Mrs. j. B. Sayler
whose names were coupled In the Say
Ter murder trial were found guilty of
manslaughter for the Staying of J. B.
Sayler of Crescent City, husband CT the
woman, last july.
John Grunden, medicine vendor
from Oklahoma, and father of Mrs.
Sayler, was acquitted.
Punishment was fixed by the jury
in DR.. Miller's case at twelve years
imprisonment in the penitentiary,
while Imprisonment for three Tears in
the penitentiary was allotted to Mrs.
Sayler.
/ The trial. which occupied month
and has held a large share of the at
4 tention of the residents. of Iroq IS
county since the killing of j. B. Sa.--
Ter, for the ~ t year, came to
/ speedy close.
The general expectation was that
the jury that lad been celebrating
more than thirty-six hours would dis
agree.
Late in the afternoon, when more
than ten ballots lad been taken,
agreement had been reached on the
manslaughter verdict against DR.. Mil
Ter and Mrs sayler and of acquittal
for her father
j Then came a pause, when the length
of sentence to be imposed was deter
mined.
Shortly after p. M the defendants.
their counsel, the states attorney
and his aids entered the courtroom.
and the jury was brought in.
i Goloa Sayler sat beside her mother,
Mrs. Sayler. She wept as she Ell
tered the court room. When the ver-
dict finding Mrs. Sayler Guilty was
read, she threw herself into the arms
of her daughter and sobbed convul-
sively.
i Coda sought to comfort her moth
er and caressed and kissed her.
Mrs Miller c,ung, weeping, to her
husband when the verdict came, and
he clasped her to him. Their boy,
Erington, was not present
The courtroom was hushed as the
jury was polled.
Attorney Free P. Morris made a
formal motion for new trial for the
convicted two. States Attorney John
P. Pallissard agreed to setting The
motion for argument April 80. Judge
Dibell then thanked the jurors for
their work and discharged them.
For the first time since he was ar.
rested DR.. Miller felt the grip of hand
cuffs as he was taken from the court
room to the county jail, after an af
fectionate farewell to his wife.
Mrs. Sayler, somewhat recovered
from her emotion, walked unshackled
!. to the cell which has been her home
for many months.
: John Grunden, with squared should
ers, went from the courtroom free
: man.
: The crime Of which the defendants
!, !. DR.. Miller and Mrs. Sayler, were
: found guilty wa the Staying of j. B
Sayler in the parlor of his home.
The stat Elm the trial brought ou
/. much concerning alleged intimacy Of
Mrs. Sayler and DR.. Miller, ana scoll
ed at the plea of the defense advanc
ed together with the story of the de
: PENDANTS that Mr.. Sayler precipitatec
= his death by attacking DR.. Miller will
: hatchet without provocation.
Incidents in the trial which made i
notable were the summoning of %
: veniremen before Jury was chosen
2 the circumstantial nature of the evt
, dence for the state. the defendant
themselves being the only witnesse
of the shooting, and the cost of tn
. trial, which lasted from March IA t
: April II, totaling more than $4,000
Practically every man, woman an
: child in Iroanois and surroundin
counties followed the course of th
: trial, either in person in the cour
room at one stage or another 0
through printed accounts.
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