Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-05-19
prepare TO APPEAL
ATTORNEYS FOR GOHL GETTING
READY TO APPEAL CASE.
Convicted Murderer Comes Up for
Sentence Next Saturday Before
Judge SheekS. Appeal will Be
Taken II Death Sentence Is InflCt-
ed. Lauritz Jensen Released.

William Gohl former Sailor Union
agent at Aberdeen, will appear before
Judge Sheeks next Saturday for SEN
| tence, in accordance with the verdict
of the jury that rendered a verdict OF
guilty of murder in the first degree,
for the killing of his sailor friend,
Charles Hadberg. AS preliminary
to an appeal, his Counsel Attorneys
J. A. Hutcheson and A. E. Cross will
file a motion for new trial. Just
what grounds the motion will be bas-
ed upon is not known, but it is
thought that efforts will be made to
pick flaws in the information.
Mrs. Gohl has moved from Aber-
deem to Montesano, and is said to
be making strenuous efforts to raise
money with which to prosecute the
appeal, without which it is doubtful
if appeal is made. 1t is doubtful any
way, if Gohl should receive a peni-
tentiary sentence. Should he be SEN
fenced to hang, his counsel appoint
ed by the court, will in all probable
ity take it to the supreme court il
the necessary expenses are provided
for.
Gohl is said, by those who have WIS.,
tied him since tlte trial, to have lost
the iron nerve that so well sustain
ed him during that ordeal, and now
passes most of his time plating and
unplating a small piece of rope yarn
in his CELL His money, if he had any,
is still mystery. He had frequent
ly told his intimates of having sever
al thousand dollars buried at place
known only to himself, and is said
to have paid an Aberdeen man 500
few days after the murder of Had
berg and Hoffman. While it does ap-
pear that he should have some money
| if 1.-THE of the crimes attributed to
him be true, it is hardly conceivable
! that he would have gone to trial
without counsel of his own, or that
now, he would not have it raised to
enable his appeal.
Lauritz Jensen, a nember OF the
Cchl gang, known as "The Weasel"
was released by Sheriff Payette yes
terday, after being confined in the
| d.lma Jail for nearly two months. Jen-
sen knew GOhl since the latter be-
came Sailors Union sgent at Aber-
deem, in 1908, and for more than a
| ear was on the nest intimate terms
with him. in the fall of 1909, Jen-
sen was hard up, and Gohl took him
to his house and kept him, to assist
in his criminal exploits.
Jensen, in confinement, did not hes
itate to talk of Gohl's criminal ac-
tions. He told freely of the plot to
blow up the residence of w. B. Mack.
and the Sig. Jacobsen place: of the
robbery of F.. j. Becker's gun store;
the robbery in which he took part, of
sextant, chronometer, shot gun,
rifle and two revolvers from the
schooner r. G. Slade, and the steal
ing by both of them of shingles at
South Aberdeen MILL which were
used to cover the Hadberg cabin at
Indian creek.
In view of the facts, the release
of Jensen is passing strange. Ac-
cording to his own talk, he was guilty
of the robbery of the Schooner r. G.
Slade, and the theft of shingles, and
| it looks to layman that proper
sweating and investigation would
have produced evidence enough to
have held him, at least until the Gohl
case is finally disposed Off, and such
of his gang as remain on Grays Har-
Dor placed behind prison bars.