The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-06-12
EDMOND ACQUITTED.
FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER BY
CARROLL COUNTY JURY AFTER
THREE BALLOTS.

Julian Edmond, was pronounced MOI
guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court
here Wednesday afternoon, shortly b.
fore 2 o'clock 1t was the third day
of the trial, and demonstration &C.
CURED when Foreman Stephen an
nounced the verdict that set Edmond
free of the charge of killing his sister
in-law, Eleanor Cole, on August Az
1913, III Baltimore. The jury had been
out two hours and fifteen minutes
When the verdict was announced
the crowd in the courtroom cheered.
The case is the most important to
be tried at the this term Of Court and
much interest was aroused. Ed
mond's first enlistment was as a
member of Company f., LIST Maryland
Volunteers, under Captain Charles w.
Adams, now Major Adams, who is
now living on the Baker farm near
Sykesville.
The killing of Miss Cole was sur
rounded by mysterious circumstances.
All ILL o'clock on the morning of August
IL the Northern district police re-
ceived a telephone call to send the
ambulance to 1921 Abel avenue, Bal
timore. When the police arrived
III from a bullet which had entered her
back and pierced the spinal cord.
Julian Edmond was sitting on the
kitchen floor with bullet wound i'm
his left breast an inch below the col
lar bone.
The pistol was lying on the table
and Mrs. Edmond was pleading with
neighbors to aid her The pistol was
al
tridges were exploded. Mrs. Edmond
said that after the shots had been
fired by her husband she took the
pistol and fired three shots from the
kitchen door to attract attention. In
a statement Edmond declared that the
shooting was an accident and that
after he shot Miss Cole he turned the
weapon On himself.
Az the inquest conducted by Cor
oner Agire, of the Northern district,
four days after the killing of Miss
Cole, a note which Edmond, according
to witness tore up, was read. When
Mrs. Edmond heard the contents of
the note she tainted and was carried
from the room by her father, j. G.
LeGrand Cole.
The case was removed to the Car
roll county court anu on MOnudyJ
five panels of talesmen, containing 81
names were examined before jury
OF ~ men who decided the fate Of
Edmond. was selected.
Assistant States Attorney harry
Nice, OF Baltimore, made the opening
statement, asking for a verdict of
first degree murder. The case j. be
ing prosecuted by Deputy States At
torney Roland Marchant of Balti-
more, together with MT Nice, and
States Attorney u. o. Weant, OF Car
roll county. The defense is rep
resented by former Deputy States At
torney Emory Stinchcomb, OF Balti-
more, assisted by Attorney Guy w.
Steele, of this city.
Judges Brashears and Forsythe were
on the bench. The jury selected was
as follows: Jacob II. Stephan, How
ard R. Lippy, Arthur @. Albert, Henry
r. Fuss, William d. Bush, Henry F.
John Walking, J. Elmer
Myers, George wv. Stair, Joshua j.
Hesson, James Myers and John F.
Both the state and the |
defense announced that they would
be willing to permit the jurymen to
90 to their homes, but the court ruled
and the jurors were placed
in charge Of Sheriff Davis and Bailiff |
Barry, and were quartered at the Main
Court INN.