Weekly journal-miner., 1920-04-28
Thompson Is Found Guilty A Second Time
(From Sundays Daily)

For the second time, Carrier Thompson was found guilty of the forgery of a will, when a jury re- ported its convicting verdict to the Superior court at II o'clock last night. Twenty minutes had been spent in deliberating following the instructions of the court.
 Thompson was arrested on May last, accused of having forged will for William E. Debus, an aged and bedridden patient at the Pioneer home. He was trapped" by the authorities following the revelation of the plan to them by Clarence Dyer, a fellow nurse at the home, to whom Thompson had imparted it in the hope that Dyer would assist him.
 The defendant was tried and found guilty last October and sentenced to the state prison where he has been confined until his case was remanded on appeal to the State Supreme court for a new trial here.
 More Testimony Is Read
 The examination of Carrier Thomp- son continued during the forenoon session. He was questioned both by the defense and by the state as to the affair in which he and Dyer were alleged to have worked up the plan to forge the Debus will.
 The defense then spent some time reading extracts from the testimony in the original case, particularly sucf testimony as related to the character and reputation of the defendant 1T the Pioneer home and his capacity as a nurse during the influenza epi demic.
 The marriage license and certifi cate showing ostensibly that Hiram Thompson" had married "Adal Haynes" at Flagstaff, was again in trcduced. The state got this docu me { in over objections of the de fense. In the prior case, the statC understood it had been called to ac count in the appellate court for a alleged attempt by this exhibit t prove a sebarate ofiense, that O biganly.
 During the reading of the testi mony of Mrs. Hall, a guest of tn home, the defense attempted to rea' from the cross examination record O the previous trial but was halted b defense counsel The prosecutio held that no objection had bee made to this testimony before an that it had been stipulated that sucl testimony might be re-introduce without calling the witness in per son. The defense came back wit :ke statement that the stipulation excepted such testimony as might b objected to on its competency, anc the state desisted.
 In his opening argument for tn defense, J. H. Morgan contended ths Thompson was not primarily respon siblc for ;he attempted forgery. Tho war record of Thompson was toucheC at length. It will be recalled tha Thompson's terrible facial scars wer caused, according to his testimony by an attempt on his part to save sick soldier when a steam pipe in { hospital ship burst and scalded tn, occupants of the sick bay.
 His reputation as a nurse was ex tremcly good, 1t was pointed out character witnesses had testified a length as to his kindness and eff ciency. The defendant acquired tho drug habit while recovering iron painful wounds sustained in the Phil ippines in 1898.
 P. w. O'Sullivan, for the defense recited the career of the defendant as to his battles and engagements ir the Philippines, and stated he had been in custody from May last-l lacking only nine days of year.
 The defense closed shortly after nine o'clock, and E. S. Clark begar l his final summing ID a few minutes later. Mir Clark ridiculed the idea that Thompson was a victim of Q plot, but pointed ont that he had always been the moving spirit in the alleged conspiracy to defraud Debus l
 The court instructed the jury, and | at 1O:45 the F men retired to con slider their verdict.