Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-20
No Verdict IN
lEFFRIES TRIAL
AFTER DELIBERATING EIGHT
HOURS JURY RETIRED FOR
TIE NIGHT.
LOOKS LIKE A MISTRIAL
Final Arguments Were Concluded
and the Case Given Ia The jury
at Two-Thlriy.

CLAREMORE, OKLA Nov 10
(Spccial) After being out eight
hours the jury in the II, O. Jeffries
murder case at 10 o'clock tonight mad
failed to reach an agreement when
they retired for the night. they VIII
resume their deliberations early IN
the morning 1t is generally FELT mere
that mistrial will result, in the event
a verdict of not guilty Is not handed
in.
The case came TO a close at 2:3O
o'clock this afternoon The trial last
ed for over week. Jeffries, who was
editor OF the Nowata Advertiser, Is
charged with the murder OF Irene Oo-
heen. his advertising solicitor.
only two addresses were delivered
TO the jury today Attorney o. j.
Rider of Vinta presented the CLOSING
argument for the defense.
The most prominent feature OF the
closing hours OF the trial was the clos
ing argument of w. W. Thraves,
county attorney of Nowata county
who has so relentlessly prosecuted
JeCfries, He summarized and clinch-
ed the arguments of the defense IN
masterful manner.
Throughout the examination or the
witnesses in the trial Thraves seemed
unable to get the desired evidence
from the persons on the stand ana
was continually placed In embarrassing
positions by opposing counsel. Bu'
when the time came for summing up
the evidence the county attorney mao
tha entire corps of attorneys Tor the
defense completely at his mercy. u"
made remarkable speech and on
that will go down in local court ms
tory as one of the best ever dellvereh
i'm a murder case depending upon cir
cumstantial evidence for conVlcuon.
Hon. ]. A. Tilotson of Nowata in
his address to the jury dwelt at con-
siderable length on the alibi which
the defense had attempted to es-
tablish in order to prove the inno'
cense Of the defendant. He held that
the time which elapsed from when
Jeffries was last seen and when he
reached the Campbell hotel at mia
night was sufficiently long for the
crime to have been committed.
Hon. ]. +. Lawrence for the defense
made an able plea devpting much or
his address to the method which no
alleged the state had pursued In ELL
deavoring to convict Jeffries and re-
fusing to follow any other theory. He
stated that all the evidence went 10
show that Irene Goheen had been
killed in the yard of Stats In the city
of Nowata, that her cries when the
fatal blow was struck were heard ny
Mr.. Monett that her crises aroused
Mrs. Montgomery with whom she
lived and that the body must nave
been taken to the pasture after death
Had Jeffries committed the crime Mt
must have killed her, taken her BODY
fully a mile and a quarter to the pas
ture. placed il among the rocks where
found and returned the mile and
quarter to his barn. put his horse out
and return.d to the city in AZ miutes
an impossibiity. The address OF
Mr. Lawrence was one of the best
ever delivered in the county and elic'
tied much praise owing TO the youth
of the pleader
Hon. w. d. Humphreys for the
state during the course of his ad-
dress admitted that the state did nos
wish the infllction of the death PEN
atty but that owing to the peculiar
class OF evidence which he held that
the defense had introduced he did no.
feel that the jury should put much
credence in the witnesses. His ad-
dress was n masterful and scathing
resume of the defense testimony with
but little attempt to discuss the caec
The speech of Hon. ]. b. Ruther-
ford of Saplpa. for real cloquence and
logical reasoning stands apart from
all those who preceded him. He
scathlngly criticized the prosecuting
attorney of Nowata county who mad
brought the case to trial without a
single incriminating circumstance
which could not have been directed
against score or more of the best
citizens of Nowata county and alb
solutely refusing the command of the
attorney general of the state to apre-
hend Len Goheen. He further critl-
cized the prosecuting attorney for
bringing here Goheen, placing him on
the witness stand and thereby forever
closing the gates Of investigation and
immuning forever he who perhaps
knew more about the frightful tragedy
which deprived Irene Goheen OF nci
life than any living person. He took
up the statement of Attorney Hum i
phreys who had said that the state
expected verdict Of life imprison-
ment and not death on the gallows
and severely condemned the state for
even asking such a request in View
Of the fact that the indictment asked
for the death penalty. He logically
outlined the case of the defense. traced