The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-15
WIFE BREAKS DOWN .
AS TERRY VERDICT
IS READ IN COURT.
Found Guilty of Being Ac-
ceSSory TO Murder of Mar
shall Richardson.
BALLOTED 3 HOURS
Pitiful Scene Enacted When
Sheriff Ordered Terry
10 Jail.
BALLOTED 3 HOURS

After balloting for almost twenty !
three hours. the jury in the case OF
Owen Terry returned n verdict OF
guilty OF being an accessory before the
fact in the murder of Marshal Robert
Richardson, of College Corner. by VIII
liam Terry, the defendants father. on
March 2S. The verdict was read at
10 O'Clock this morning. after the jury
had considered the case since IL
O'Clock yesteday morning. The PEN
atty for being accessory before the
fact in case of manslaughter is from
two TO twenty-one years in the peni-
tentiary.
Only few persons were present in
the court room when the verdict was
read. Terry and his wife sat on the
west side of the room near the door,
each holding one of their children in
their arms. When Judge Fox pro-
nounced the jury's verdict of guilty
Terry did not finch. but clung TO thei
boy in his arms. Mrs. Terry broke
down
When Sheriff Bayer summoned Ter
~ to follow him to the Jail. the young
father placed the 5-year-old boy on the
floor and started to 20. The boy
stretched out his arms TO the father
and began crying.
Il want to so. too; l want to 60
with papa" he sobbed as Mrs. Ella
Terry tried TO take him with her He
thinks a great deal of his father and
can hardly bear TO be separated from.
him. Terry held him in his arms dur
ing the trial and while he was on the,
witness stand. Sheriff Bayer said the
child stayed with Terry at the Jail
last night, and that he was perfectly
happy there with his father
Judge Fox stated this morning that
Terry would be sent to Jeffersonville.
unless his attorney, Walter Bossert,
of Liberty. asks for new trial Bos-i
sert is in Liberty today. and was noti-
fed OF the jury's verdict by telephone
What action will be taken by the de-
fense will not be known until he arr
rives.
Longest DeIiberation.
The time which the jury spent in!
deliberating upon the case set the
record for the year. the longest time
previously being eighteen hours in the
Lundy case. On the first ballot thei
jurors were divided. six for a verdict
of guilty and six for acquittal Ballot
after ballot remained that way until
shortly before ten o'clock this morn
ing
The testimony presented in thei
case showed that Owen Terry and
his father Williams Terry, were with
Robert Terry. the defendants brother.
on the morning OF March %, when
Marshal Richardson tried TO serve a,
warrant on Robert Terry. He resisted
and in the trouble that followed. Wil1
liam Terry shot and killed Richard
son.
The charge in the case was that
Owen Terry urged his father to COM /
nit the murder and gave him the re-
volver. Evidence introduced by the,
defense was TO the effect that Owen
left his father and did not have any
thing TO do with the trouble, and tried
to get his father to do the same. He
testified that he did not have a gun
on the day of the shooting.
May Get New Trial.
Walter Bossert. attorney for the de-i
fendant. stated this morning when in
formed by telephone of the jury's yer
dict. that he would appear in court
Monday and ask for a new trial. which
will probably be granted. Judge Fox
intimated this morning that II new
trial was asked ii would be granted
Terry said over and over again this
morning on the way to jail Il would
not mind II II was guilty. but being
innocent and after doing all I could
to keep out of the trouble 1t makes IL
awfrIf hard