Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-04
Interest Was Intense.

INTEREST was jnIenSe
The town of Cando stayed up this
evening to hear the verdict. Interest
|'has been intense since the trial open
ed here nearly a week ago. States At.
torney Burke received congratulations
from all sides for the manner in
which he conducted the case. Convic-
tions in such cases are rare.
Sentenced this Week.
Judge C. w. Buttz will pronounce
sentence sometime this week 1t is not
known whether he will follow the re-
Communications OF the jury.
The child mother who never saw
her child had the sympathy Of the
court spectators from the first. Every
one felt that she was more sinned
against than SHINING. Just slip OF
girl of sixteen years, she told a tale
of illicit love and experience, seldom
the lot of a. child of her tender years.
Cloud of lnfanticide.
With the cloud OF infanticide over
her, she took as husband Elmer
Jones who ruined and debauched her
at an age when children are usually
learning to read and write. Her whole
life has been spent amidst. drunken
braWls and in home which knew no
standard of morals nor followed any
rules of morality.
Tears in Eyes of Spectators.
Tears came to the eyes Of many as
this girl stood before the bar; of justice
and heard the verdict of guilty fail
| from the trembling lips Of the fore.
man.
The faces Of the other blanched as
the jury meted out to them the stern.
er punishment. They were all led
away to the Jail to await formal pro
nouncement OF sentence this week.
Most Revolving Crime.
| The murder was one of the most re.
voting in the criminal anna S of the
state. On October II, 1914, Betsy
| Jones, daughter of Mrs. Hans Sogge,
was taken to an outhouse and there
gave birth to child. Two days be.
fore the birth of the child, she had
been driven from home with her moth
er, brothers and sister by father
crazed with drink.
This happened repeatedly during
! her delicate condition. n
Awful Climax.
Then came the awful climax In her
life.
Soon after the new born infant had
been kiled through abandonment un-
der the most gruesome and awful con-
ditions, Betsy, her mother and hus'
band, who married the girl soon a1Nr
the child's birth, were arrested and
charged with murder in the first de-
gree. ;,
They were confined in separate cells
in the Benson county Jail at Mime
waukan and made confessions which
we're read into the record by the Sher.
iff of that county.
7 Jury Goes Out.
The case was one OF the most SUD
bornly fought in this section OF the
Estate.
At 1870 p. m. the jury in the Ben.
son county child murder case had
failed to return a verdict and hope
that an agreement would be reached
tonight was practically abandoned.
The jury is locked in the court
house, where sleeping quarters are
provided. Judge c. w. Buttz, com
pleted his charge at $3.50 p. m. ne
instructed the jury they could flnd
any one of the defendants guilty OF
murder in the first or second degree.
or manslaughter in the first or second
degree or not guilty, making neces'
sary fifteen forms of verdict which
were prepared for the jury.
Intense excitement marked the CLOS
Ing hours of The trial The court
room was packed with spectators and
the peas of the attorneys were the
most eloquent ever heard in Cando.
States Attorney Burke Of Benson
county finished with a terrific arralgn'
ment of the three defendants.