The Alaska citizen., 1911-05-01
REAGAN |S FOUND
 GUILTY
JURY ON FRIDAY TERNCCN CONVICTED HIM OF CRIME
 OF RAPE

On Monday the case Of the tinted States ys. William Reagan. in which rhe defendant was charged with the rape uf Violet Meyers. child under he age of sixteen, was commenced. \ special ycuirc was called and by Tuesday noon the jury had been SC cured It was composed of the fol. lowing: D. II. Patterson H. John s n, ]. j. Filbn. F Goyuc. II. C.. Kelly. A. Fowler. l.. NJ. Drury $. c. smith, c E. Taylor II. Jagoby. ! x. NoIlmer and Thomas Riley.
 Because of the nature of the tes. timouy to be expected the court de ciied that the trial would he con ducted behind closed doors The frs. witness to be put on Inc stand by the government vas Mrs. Gussie Nyy- CTS. the neither of the child Shr told of the girls condition and of finding her daughter and Reagan iu her cabin on he morning of March .rh. Her testimony in regard 10 he place where the daughter was born in San Francisco was some. what vague but she was able 10 give the general location of the h-Gsr and "a s,a'e positively that il wa in October. lN9G. Mrs. IIolmEren. c. Ester creek, was tHe nurse iu at- tendance.
 Violet Meyers. tue daughter, made a very good witness and old in de rail of all of her relau1us with Req .,an. asserting positively that he alone Was responsible for her condition
 Mrs Holmgrcn was inc next wit. ness called and she stated that the girl was born ill October. lN4t. Shc was somewhat confU cd in her ty-- timony, and stated that she had known Mrs. Meyers for sixteen lears. On cross examination she was piuu- ed down 10 the statement that -h. first met Mrs. Meyers at the tim, she was taken to the house in San Fran cisco 10 attend Mrs Meyers al the time of her confinement.
 The defense confined itself ~O.c'. 10 all attempt to prove that tho girl vas more than sixteen years of age n March 7th. Mrs. Meycys was IT. called to testify in regard D1 the entry M the back ot q bible she own ed which contained an cn.ry r,. Garding Niolet's birth in October. 1N35. The attorney for the prisoner asked Mrs Meyers to write the saiuC thing over again on a slip of pape. and in his argument to the jury .c Contcudcd that he had thereby prov ed the entry in the Bible To have been recently made, as it was idcn- tical with the sample the woman had just written and did not show the change ill style that would be rr.4 ..,rt-. fCcn years.
 The girl was regaucd 10 testify further in regard to her relations with Reagan. ani Mrs GoodfcllOw. Warren NJ. Knapp, Charles Iocrler and John Nee also .estiGed in ie. gard 10 the age of the child. None of these witnesses. however. had any thing Vcry definite in his regard to relate. Dan R sc. J. Ii Cdshoy. J. F. Moody and E. W. Griffin test.- lied aa 10 the good character Req gan had previously borne.
 On Friday afternoon the arguments in the ease were commenced Assist ant District Attorney Brown opened for the government. and he detailed the crime and the evidence which had been produced by the govern ment. He was followed by AJtoue. j. F. Golfer, who had been appoint ed by the court to defend Reagan. Mr. Golfer made a very able piea but u.e fabric on which he had ts base his defense was so palpably weak that he had 10 confnc his arguu cut to the point of the uncertainty rc- garding the age of the girl. He laid much stress on the fact that the entry in the Bible appeared 10 have been faked recently to str, ngthen the case against the prisoner. and also declared that the evidence of Mrs. Holmgren had gone to show that the girl was sixteen years of age, Mir. Crossley made the concluding ar gument for the government.
 The case was gwen to the jury at $50 on Thursday afternoon, and it was not until 2:30 Friday that verdict was returned This yer dict found the. defendant guilty Of the charge laid in the indictment Each of the jurymen was boiled by the court and each agreed in the yer dict of guilty.