Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-19
SENATOR CORE Is
FULLY EXONERA!ED
Jury Gives Defendan, the Yer.
diet In $4,000 DAM
age Suit.
IS OUT GNlY TEN MINUTES
Finds Evidence of FlnintiT, N.s
Bond, insufficient after
Taking but One
Rallot.
IS OUT dNlY TEN MINUTES

Oklahoma City, Okla, Fob 18-Urite1
States Senator Thoinae Pryor Gore late
to-day was exonerateG Of charges Of i'm
proper conduct by a verdict in mis- favor
returned In district court here In the suit
for $4,000 damages instituted by Mrs, Min
ME r. Bond of Oklahoma City.
The verdict was returned ten minutef
after the case was given to the jury Onl,
one ballot was taken.
I'VE find" the jury stated in the YER
dict. the evidence submitted by th,
plaintiff entirely insufficient upon which
TO base a suit; that said evidence Who'll.
ly exonerates the defendant and had tn,
defendant. at the conclusion Of the plain.
tiffs evidence. announced that he desired
10 introduce no evidence and rested hi
case. our verdict would have been tht
same in that event as now returned b,
us, in favor OF the defendant"
Oklahoma City, Okla, Feb 1s.-De
spite the efforts of bailiffs to main
tain order when the last words of the
verdict were read. the crowd that filled
the court room cheered.
Senator Gore heard the jury's de-
cision without change of countenance.
Mrs. Gore was the first to grasp his
hands with Henry Carpenter, the fore
man, tears were on the cheeks Of both
herself and the aged farmer
NEVER DOUBTED OUTCOME.
THE verdict confirms my faith that
truth will triumph" said Senator Gore
II never for a moment doubted the out
come"
From the time the Jurors left the room
to prepare their verdict until the demon
stration was underway. Mrs. Bond sat in
silence leaning on a table and scribbli lg
on piece of paper. She seemed in no
haste to leave the room until she was ap-
preached by her attorneys, when she rose
| and walked away with them and her hus-
! band
| Z. J. Glddings. chief OF counsel for
Mrs. Bond, tonight said an appeal to
the supreme court would be taken. on
the ground that applause and demonstra-
tons in the court room during the trial
had influenced the jury.
N5hert 7. Rogers of Little Rock. Ark,
, % counsel for SEM tor Gore during the
argument made the direct charge that
j. F. McMurray. a prominent Oklahoma
lawyer now living in Washington, planned
the alleged conspiracy which the defense
declared resulted in Mrs. Bonds charges
Trial Of the suit begun last We'd
nesday. In her declaration Mrs. Bond
alleged that the senator attacked her
when they conferred in a hotel ir
Washington last March, in connection
with the possible appointment OF hei
husband. Julian Bond. as internal rev,
enue collector at Oklahoma City. Cor,
seized her, she alleged. throwing he
violently across a bed. She claimed she
| freed herself only after several mer
appeared in the doorway of the room
| In the scuffle, Mrs. Bond asserted. hei
face was scratched and hand laceratet
| by fragments of her broken eyeglasses
In his answer Senator Gore denied tht
charges and as a countercharge alleged
that the suit was instigated by poll
teal opponents. who had failed In :heif
efforts to obtain federal patronage.
The jury, comprising nine farmers
| grocer a banker and a broker was OBJ
tained on the first day of the trial. Mrs
Bond was called as the first witness. Re-
peat!ng her allegations, she denied any
| knowledge Of the plot alleged by the sen
ator who Is candidate for denomination
at the Oklahoma primaries next August