Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-16
ORPET FREED; E INNOCENT IF MURDER
 CHARGE
Jury Out Five Hours Finds Wisconsin College Boy Not Guilty Of Poisoning Mari on Lambert
YOUTH RECEIVES
 VERDICT IN SILENCE
Is Completely Overcome By Emotion, While Attorney Sheds Tears Of Joy For Boys Deliverance
(Hy Review Leased Wire )

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 WAUkEEGAN, July 15.-Wil
 liam orpet, the University of Wis
 consin student charged with mur
 derinq Marion Lambert, a high
 school girl and his former sweet
 heart, was found not guilty to
 night by a jury in Judge Donnel
 ly's court after five hours celib
 eration.
 The jury retired at 2:30 o'clock
 and at o'clock members were
 taken to dinner at a boarding
 house where they spent half an
 hour.
 One hour after came the flash that verdict had been reached Probably fifty persons were still waiting for it. Orpet. who had taken his evening meal. was sent for in his cell. Judge Donnelly, a cripple, who had been seated in a chair on the court house lawn chatting with the lawyers, made his way painfully upstairs on crutch.
 Dramatic Silence.
 The defendant as usual was seated between his mother and Mrs. Edwin Taylor. his landlady al Madison, when the jury filed in. Only one sound broke the stiffness with which for a few seconds the verdict was re caived. It came from a woman about 50 years old dressed in black who had attended every session of court. She made an inarticulate sound-some- thing between a sob and shriek. She had never explained her interest in the case except to say that she was "a friend of humanity"
 orpet Speeches..
 Orpet was silent through excess of emotion. He was barely able to re- turn the handclasp of his attorneys, He accepted the hand of a reporter hut muttered scarcely percep;ible please don't
 Thanks Jury.
 He made his way to the jurors and shook their hands one by one smiling wanly but saying nothing.
 Mrs. Orpet did not lose her self pos session for a second. She received the verdict as if it were mere matter of routine. She noted that photog- rapher was trying to snap picture of her son and herself and warned him, meanwhile shielding her own face with a newspaper.
 Attorneys Weer.
 James H. Wilkerson, chief of coun- seI for the defense was unable to keep back the tears and they trickled from his eyes, while he, with his assistants, Ralph H. Potter and Leslie P. Hanna, were receiving congratulations.
 MT. Wilkerson stated that in his opinion Orpet had been more than decided not guilty.
 Orpet to Begin Again.
 He was proved innocent" said MT. Wilkerson. He is going home with his mother now. Then he is going into the country for much needed rest after the nerve-racking experience brought on him by remarkable if not precedented series of circumstances. Then he will come back home and make a man of himself"
 The defendant. his father and mother. his brother, Mrs. Taylor and intimate friends made their way into the witness room where their privacy was safeguarded by bailiff.
 Half an hour later they emerged.
 Well go home now, William, sald Mrs. Orpet, and they made their way down the back stairs and to the jail. Orpets few belongings which he had in his cell were already packed.
 He had recovered his self posses sion by this time and thanked Sheriff Griffin for making his four months stay in jail as comfortable as possible Orpet and his party were taken home in an automobile by Leslie P. Hanna, his Waukeegan attorney.
 Fifteen Figures Often.
 The important events of the trial all occurred on the fifteenth. The se- lection of the jury began May 16; tbe taking of testimony was begun June 15 and acquittal July l5. Three ballots were taken by the jury The first two stood eleven to one for ac- ouittaI Foreman O'Shea stated that the name of the obdurate member would not be made public.
 The usual Saturday night throng of farmers and their families in shop
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