The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-07
VANCE IS FOUND
GUILTY OF CRIME
(contInusa from Pags oas0


stale prison. This sentence may be
materially reduced by credit marks for
good behavior
The actual eicsing scene OF the sec
Ond trial OF Vance for the murder OF
mis- wife, the hearing OF which has
taken up the better part or the past
two weeks. was less dramatic than
many or the lesser features OF the trial
Id was 5:45 o'clock when. after a
days elaboration, the jury announced
10 me bailifr that verdict had been
agreed upon. IL was an hour later
when the jury filed into the courtroom
ana, in the presence OF Judge T. ID.
Lewis, the defendant, Sheriff Joseph
SHARP. John F. Tobin. one Of the
court and two newspaper men, and II.
4. Elder, as foreman OF the JHFy, re-
turned the verdict finding that Thorn
a. Vance had been guilty or assault
der her,
Hogan Sunday Morning.
The jury 10 whom the case was pre-
scented and the instructions OF the court,
given Just before midnight Saturday,
did not begin It's deliberations until
a quarter 70 . O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. With the exception OF an hour
taken for lunch at half past l o'clock.
the jury spent the time until night
fan in considering the case and reach
ing a Verctct.
Almost with the arrival OF the jury
at the city and county building, rela-
tiVes OF Thomas Vance. including Lena
and Florence Vance, the girls whose
testimony played an important part In
the trials, appeared, and passed the day
lettering YEARLY, but with apparent
anxiety, about the corridors, waiting
for the jury's verdict. About 8 o'clock,
three-quarters OF an hour before the
jury returned the verdict grown weary
OF the strain OF the anxious waiting.
the party left the building. aud wheu
Thomas Vance was called in TO listen
70 the verdict. he sat alone and unat-
tended, except by his attorney, and
under the guard OF Sheriff Sharp.
After the sleepless night Of Saturday
and the long, Wearying hours or sun
days. passed in the apprehensive wait
showed the loss OF the nerve that had
given him the nOnchalant air during
the trial, when brought in the court
room last night. Waiting for the jury,
he fidgeted about in his chair shuftling
his feet and spasmOdicaliy gripping the
arms or the chair. In his nervous
ness, once or twice he picked up a
seeet OF paper from the table, and the
paper rustled in his trembling fingers.
Expected AecuittaI.
When Judge Lewis asked the ques-
tlOn, Gentlemen. have YOU arrived al
your verdict" Vance pulled himself
together with a nervous effort and
with the intensity Of suppressed eager
ness leaned forward 10 catch every
word. As the foreman of the jury an
sWered H. firm voice and pronounced
tige of color left Nance's already
bianched face and as he dropped back
In his chair he gulped. The statement
that the found Offense was that of as
sault seemed 10 bring little relief 10
the defendaut-he had banked his
chances on the verdict of not guilty
and his acquitJal.
When II was All over and the jury
was dismissed by the court, as the jur-
ors. all CHEEKY and laughing after the
relief OF the responsibility placed up
on them and eager in their hurry 10
return TO the homes from which they
had been absent a week, Vance. who
has been IN prison three years, sighed
abject dependency at the prospect of
further jail home, turned TO the sher-
If 10 be manacled and returned 10
The cell
Until a consultation is held between
Attorneys A J, Weber, s. A. Maginnis
and John =. Tobin. who represented
Vance in his second trial, IL win not
be determined whether an appeal viii
be taken.
NaFiOnE Degrees.
The verdict returned by the jury
read,
we. the jury impaneled in the above
case. find the defendant guilty OF an
assault with intent 10 commit murder
as charged in the information"
Under the instructions given by the
court any one OF six Verdicts might
have been found by the jury, these be-
ing as follows; Guilty Of murder in the
first degree, guilty OF murder In the
first degree Without rec0sau1e ndati0n.
gNAity ef assault With SNteDt 70 eO1nY,9it