The Arvada enterprise., 1916-05-25
DICKENS FOUND GUILTY
BANKERS SON FACES PEN TERM
AS FATHERS SLAYER.
Attorneys Given as Days to Make
Application for New Trial-Case
May Go to Supreme Court.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

banker and pioneer builder. The YER
dict carries with it sentence OF from
ten years to life imprisonment in the
penitentiary. The jury retired late
Monday night and began baliotiug on
RienZis fate. Attorneys for Rien2i
Dickens were granted 40 DAYS in
which to file motion for new trial,
and if this is denied are expected to
appeal to the Supreme Court II the
bitter fight TO free RienZi.
When the verdict was read, the de
fandant's Wife who had been at his
side constantly during the trial,
shrieked and went into Mysteries.
Within fifteen minutes after the yer.
dict, Mrs. Dickens collapsed com.
pletely and was carried to her hotel.
Foremost in the efforts to stop the
cries of the little woman was Rienzi
Dickens himself. He received the
verdict with utter calm-almost ap-
parent indifference. Then, without
flinching, he arose and began to com.
fort his wife. Mrs. William II. Dick.
ems, wife OF the murdered man and
active in her sons defense, was not
in the room when the verdict was
read. Mrs. Walter C. Coulehan, sister
of the defendant, and Mrs. Jack Dick.
ems, sister-inlaw, broke down as did
his wife.
The defendant will retain his lib
erty on a new $4,000 bond until the
motion for new trial is decided
The Story Of the Murder.
occurred the night of Nov. 30. last
He sat resting. alternately doing and
reading, in the library of his mxuri.
ous home in Longmont. 1t was about
s O'Clock. His wife, who came west
with him thirty years ago and fought
the fight with him from poverty TO
wealth, had just entered the room and
taken seat across from him at the
reading table when bullet came
crashing through the window. 1t
plowed its way through the aged
bankers body. and buried itself in the
wall. A fragment strayed from the
copper jacket and cut open the cheek
of Mrs. Dickens. Mr. Dickens fell to
the floor unconscious and died in his
wifes arms four minutes later,
There We're many theories advanced
and many ciews followed in the sue.
LOngmont in an automobile from
Colorado Springs with bloolhounds
eight hours after the murder passed
man driving an exhausted horse
toward Denver and he was traced by
the officers until they became con.
vinced that he could not have been
the assassin.
Gang Theory Advanced.
4 number of the men who. through
business association with the banker,
had become his enemies. were inves-
tisatcd. A theory was offered that
one OF gang known as the Bill Du-
Bois gang IN the early days OF Long
mont, practically wiped out by a vigil.
ance committee commanded by VII.
liam II. Dickens. had killed the
banker in keeping with an oath Of
vengeance made ut tina, time
All northern Colorado was aroused.
Rewards were offered by I'll. Dickens
family. William II. Dickens, scorn.
ful OF formalities, rough In speech and
dress, was one of the most prominent
citizens OF the section. and the bust.
ness and social qualifications OF the
Dickens family extended to every part
OF Boulder county.
Learn Of Rienzi's Purchase.
The day OF Dec. ., two days after
the murder, Patrolman McKinnon in
Denver learned by accident that Rien.
ri Dickens had purchased high
power rifle and a box OF shells from
the Tritch Hardware Company Nov.
3. He ordered a Maxim silcncer,
which the store did not have IN stock.
II came TO him In Longmout Nov. 10.
The next day he was out at Empsons
hill. five miles from his home. shoot.
Ing at II target.
Tho officers called Ricu1i to the
home OF II. o. Smith, deputy sheriff
the night OF Dec. 2 and questioned
him, Donihls OF the purchase OF the
rife and OF his automobile having
been taken from his garage the night
OF the murder icd to the invcs,ign
ton that uncovered the chain of cir.
cumStanccs on which II charge OF mur.
der was based. lie was arrested tho
following morning and after being al.
lowed 10 attend hls fathers funeral
was taken 10 jail Mt Boulder lie VA,
prisoner thirty days and then was
released on bonds OF t37,5Oo furnish,
cd by his mother.
His arrest split Boulder county In
two fact ona-thosc who arrayed
themselves with the Dickens family
In declaring Rienxi Dickens incapabls
OF the cr.mc OF parricidc and those
who refused TO declare u faith In his
Innocence, The Dickens clan pledged
It's fortune of moro than $500 GEO 10
his cause. Detectives waro hired TO
'earcb out evidence thA, Nuuia Gear
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