Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-11
JUROR s ILLNESS
DELAYS VERDICT
IN MURDER CASE

Pueblo. Colo Dec. 10.--At
o'clock this afternoon all testimony
was in. the Jury instructed and the at
torneys had concluded their argu
ment in the trial Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Haskell, charged with the murder OF
Charles Goldtrap at her home on the
night of December q, 1918, ana the
Jury retired for elaboration. Al S.5p
O'Clock shortly after the jurors mad
returned from supper and were TAX
| ing up the case preparatory TO at
| tempting to arrive at a verdict one
i of the Jurors was suddenly taken H.
After an examination physicians or
dered him to bed thus precluding any
possibility of the jury reaching any
verdict tonight.
| 1t was said however, that the juror
would be able to resume tomorrow.
| Testimony to prove that mrs
Haskell was in the yard of her home
when she shot the bov. instead of in
| the house, as she claims, was intro
duced at todays session, witnesses
saving they could see the flashes OF
! the gun in the yard and other wilt
| nesses declaring a shot penetrated a
human body as the bullet did that
caused Goldstrap's death would cause
! the victim to drop in his tracks 60 d
straps body was found at n consider
| able distance from the house and the
state declared that Il would have been
| impossible for Mrs. Haskell to nave
| shot from either the upstairs window
or the back door and hit Goldstrap II
he was standing near where his BODY
was found because Of the Intervening
buildings. Hence the state insisted
the woman must have been IN the
al OF
Mrs. Hasketts 11-year-old son tes-
titled for the defense and told the
same story as told by Mrs. Haskell
He declared the family heard some
one pounding on the house and walk
ing from the front door to the real
md that some one endeavored TO gel
into the rear door. His mother free
a shot from the upstairs window tt
frighten the intruder and then wen
downstairs to the rear door opened
1t little and fired the second shot,
other witnesses declared that thu
two shots were fired within ten sec
J onds of each other and that 1t woul'
t be impossible for Mrs, Haskell t.
? have fired one shot, hurry dow
} stairs, open the rear door and fire tn
second shot in ten seconds,
= Another witness. declared that Mrs
Haskell had tOlu nef tHdt bOlustld
| u'alked down the stairs with her an
} into the yard.
= one witness declared Mrs. Haskell
J. told her the next day after the shoot
: ing that he (Goldstrap) was comm
: down the stairs and I asked him wha
e he wanted and he would not answe
{, and | drawed the gun and shot hin
e If you had seen what I saw you woul
n have done what / did. -
0 A noticeable feature of the trii
e was that the defense did not plac
IS Beulah Haskell the 17-year-o
: daughter on the stand to testify
e was to visit the girl that GoldstraD
a said to have gone to the house, tn
district attorney declared in his a.
gument to the jury that the defen'
did not dare place the girl on 7
stand because her testimony if 81
told the truth would be damaging
the defendant,
The court instructed the jury
bring in one of five possible verdict
First degree murder with the deaf
penalty, first degree murder with Ii
sentence, second degree murder yo
~ untary manslaughter. or acquittal.