Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-19
SENATOR GORE
IS EXON ERATED
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Continued from page one.) hands with Henry Carpenter the fore man, tears were on the cheeks of both herself and the aged farmer.
 ''The verdict confirms my faith that truth will triumph" said Senator Gore. T never for a moment doubted the outcome"
 Mrs. Bond to Appeal.
 From the time the jurors left the room to prepare their verdict until the demonstration was under way, Mrs. Bond sat in silence, leaning on a table and scribbling on a piece of paper. She seemed in no haste to leave the room until she was approached by her at torneys. when she rose and walked away with them and her husband.
 E. J. Giddings, chief of counsel for Mrs. Bond, said tonight that an ap- peal to the supreme court would be taken, on the ground that applause and demonstrations in the courtroom during the trial had influenced the jury.
 Lawyer at Bottom of Conspiracy.
 The termination of the trial came at the end of day devoted to argument by opposing counsel, in which words were not spared in denouncing wit nesseSs and opposing parties to the suit.
 Robert l.. Rogers of Little Rock Ark, of counsel for Senator Gore made the OlreCC cnaTS6 that J. F. Me Murray, prominent Oklahoma lawyer now living in Washington. planned the alleged conspiracy which the defense declared resulted in Mrs. Bonds charges.
 Mrs. Bonds Claim. In her declaration Mrs. Bond alleged that the senator attacked her when they conferred at a hotel in Washing ton last March, in connection with the possible appointment of her husband Julian Bond, as internal revenue col lector at Oklahoma City. Gore seized her she alleged, throwing her violent ly across a bed. She claimed she freed herself only after several men appear ed in the doorway of the room. In the scuff1e. Mrs. Bond asserted, her face was scratched and hand lacerated by fragments of her broken eye glass es,
 Nine Farmers on Jury. In his answer Senator Gore denied l the charges and as a counter-charge alleged that the suit was instigated | by political opponents who had failed l in their efforts to obtain federal pat l ronage- The jury, comprising nine 1 farmers 8 grocer, a banker and a l broker, was obtained on the first day l of the trial. Mrs. Bond was called as | the first witness. Repeating her all i legations, she denied any knowledge | of the plot alleged by the senator, who
 
 l the Oklahoma primaries next August. Disappointed Office Seekers as Wit nesses- Efforts to have dispositions bearing l on alleged incidents in connection with the past of both plaintiff and defend ant, were prevented by ruling of l Judge Clark, who held such evidence not vital to the suit.
 T. E. Robertson, Kirby Fitzpatrick | and Dr. J. II. Earp, Oklahomans who were in Washington at the time of l the hotel episode, appeared as the prin- 1 cipal witnesses for Mrs. Bond. All were unsuccessful candidates for fed l eraI positions. Robertson and Fitz- patrick claimed to have been eye-wit- | nesses to the alleged assault, while | Earp asserted that he had been i'm portuned by Gore to have Mrs. Bond | leave Washington and hush the mat ! ter up"
 Cores Version of Affair. l Testifying in his own defense, Sen ator Gore characterized the alleg gatiOnS 1 as infamous lies" He asserted that l Mrs. Bond seized him and at an op- ] portune moment Robertson and Fitz-
 patrick appeared in the room. Other 1 witnesses for the defense quoted wit
 nesses for the plaintiff as admitting | that a ''frameup" against Senator Gore had been arranged and as hay 1 ing made threats to "get' the senator. 1 Argument in the suit began yester- | day and was finished at 5-3o o'clock this afternoon.