Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-24
Fate Of Murderer Given Into
 Their Hands Yesterday After noOn-RepOrted To Be Dis agreed As To The Punishment
No Defense Attempted - Com
 plete Case Submitted Against
 Kermeen By District Attorney Mrs. Harrell Paints On Stand

TOMBSTONE. July 23.-W M. Ker- Imeen is in the hands of a jury tonight which. according to current rumor. is deyided between the death penalty | and life Imprisonment
 The jury took Kermeen's case at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Judge Lock wood waited for some time for a yer Idict and then announced that if the jury did not report by o'clock he would retire for the night the jury to be locked in its room until morning ! At 9 o'clock the jury had made no sign and the judge retired. Consequently ! there will be no verdict received in lthe before morning.
 As rumor had 1t tonight, the disa- greement of the jury Is entirely as to the degree of punishment which should be recommended for Kermeen. Of his guilt of the murder of J. l.. liar Irell there is said to be not the slight Test question with ethe jurors.
 ! District Attorney Gilmore had a Isplendidly prepared case against Ker- meen Its strength was such that the defense was entirely discouraged, even to the extent of deciding to en- te1 no manner of contest, other than that contained in the plea for clemen- ! cy which was the sum and substance of the argument presented at the close of the testimony by Attorney Hays, ! Of Wilcox who appeared for Kermeen ] by appointment of the court
 ] Deputy Sheriff William Graham ! former marshal Basset Watkins of Bisbee. John Foster. who acted as special officer in association with Watkins in running down Kermeen after solving of the murder mystery which agitated Bisbee and all of the Pacific coast after the discovery Of the body of the former bank clerk in the mountains up Brewery Gulch, Mrs Harrell wife of the murdered man, and the latters father. with James Finney of Bisbee, to whom Kermeen took jewelry stolen from the body of Harrell were the principal witnesses placed on the stand by the prosecu- | tion
 ! The story brought out by the wit l nesses under the lead of the district attorney left no room for variance Of opinion as to the guilt of Kermeen. ] The arraignment the district attorney made of his case was in fact a brill iant particularly SO in view of ! the bafning circumstances which at first surrounded the mysterious dis appearance of Harrell However. : the subsequent work of officers Ora ham, Foster and Watkins enabled the district attorney to bring about a pres entation of facts which made the con fession of Kemeen, given following his arrest, entirely unnecessary to the attainment of his conviction of one of
 the darkest and miserably brutal mur. ders in the history of the county.
 Mrs. Harell wife of the murdered man, near prostrated by his death,
 tainted on the witness stand while identifying certain articles which had
 belonged to her husband and which
 were found in the possession of Ker
 meen Her emotion was piuable in
 the extreme, as was also that of the
 father of the dead man. who was brief
 ly on the witness stand and appeared
 greatly affected.
 The attitude of Kermeen during the
 hearing changed but little. Apparent
 ly he was not greatly concerned, being
 seemingly buoyed up by the hope thai
 he would escape with a sentence Of
 life Imprisonment, which it is believed ! if given him, will save the murderer
 from trial in California for murder
 and where be would be likely to gC
 to the gallows. He did not desire tC
 be heard and was not placed on tht
 stand by his attorney
 HAlrl AND sAn nomlnnn