New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-16

SIDE, as II ne could not support IT, Inc
strain was beginning TO be too much.
Court Silent as Jurors Appear.
The jurors filed in slowly, appearing
bi, sheepish over the stir they were
causing. Instead Of climbing into the
jury box, they lined up along the rail
in front Of Judge Donnelly, their backs
10 Orpet
In reply 10 the judge. O'Shea said
they had reached a verdict, and the
room was silent as bailiff took fold
ed paper from the foreman and handed
il to the Judge. who opened i and read:
I'VE. the jury, find the defendant
William Orpet not guilty"
There was a stir from the benches'
Some one screamed, and some one else
elspped.
Neither Edward Orpet. Wills father,
nor Frank Lambert, father OF the dead
girl. was in court when the verdict
was returned. Both had been there IN
the afternoon. but they had dlsap-
peared and were not found in time 70
hear the verdict.
AOiHk W AIt NOhh'is'
Orpet. according TO Mr.. Wilkerson, OF
bis counsel. is going into the country
for long rest.
The boy would not talk. "Not a
w,Id." he said. .,,
erson. Il don't know where, but some
where in the country, and he is gong
20 take a long rest. Then he is going
20 prepare himself TO take up his stud
les again and get himself ready for a
career Of usefulness"
The important events OF the trial all
occurred on the 18th of month. The
selection Of the jury began on May Is,
the taking Of testimony was begun on
June Is and acquittal came on July 10.
When the jurors retired early this
afternoon they carried with them in
structions from Judge Donnelly which
Orpet's counsel considered highly IA
vorable 20 the defendant IN their inter
pretation OF reasonable doubt as APP
piled TO the principal part OF the cyl
dence. Five of the ten counts IN the
Indictment against Orpet were STRICKEN
out by the court.
Trial Lasted Two Months.
Trial Of the Orpet case, including Sc
lection Of a jury, occupied the pet'ei
part Of two months. There appeared
in evidence forty-four letters written
BY Orpet 10 Marion in a year; bottles
AMI boxes containing cyanide from tns
Mccormick estate, from the Deernelo
high cchool laboratory, from drug
store at Forest Lake, and white powder
scraped from Marion's hand and from
spots on her cloak; the girls gar
ments; magazine article dealing with
the use of cyanide as fumigator IN
greenhouses; the chemistry text books
used respectively by the high school
girl and the college student, copy OF
the Wisconsin statute dealing with the
sale Of poisons, and bottle OF mo-
lasses and water.
Five specialists in toxicology, one
slienist, two surveyors, druggists,
streetcar men, an undertaken, schooi
teachers, police officers, reporters ana
friends Of the Orpets and LamoersS
were among the witnesses.
Early in the case the state devel-
oped the theory that Orpet purchased
two-ounce bottle from friend in a
drug store at Madison, Wis, obtained
cyanide of potassium from the green,
house on the Mccormick estate and
made a solution Of II. II was charged
that he either forced Marion TO take
the poison or deceived her WIN inc
explanation that IL was medicine.
The state was unable TO persuade any
witness to come from Wisconsin, ana
repeatedly limited that sinister innu-
ence of the defence was at the bottom
Of it.
1t was shown without contradiction
by every chemist who had hand n
The examination of Marion's stomach
content that cyanide Of potassium
caused her death.