The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-12-08

.sr her money and did not name the
creek restaurant. Mrs. Baker lust
ssld she couldn't come"
DICK George was the next witness.
his testimony being as follows: ii
was at the Baker home Sunday morn
ing, July 10th. l was with Lillian
Ihorpe IN the car. Ralph Rozell was
not there There was no cross ex-
animation of this witness.
c. 5. Deily testified as follows: 81
Ihs' knew Mr.. Baker on Sunday,
Feb. 10th, 1918, two days after I came
to Julesburg. | have been at his
house and talked with him. have
mao business transactions with him
IN the nature of general banking busi-
ness. He made most of his denosits
and wrote his checks. l never OBJ
served anything peculiar about him
and always thought that his conduct
was rational"
u. +. Hendricks was again called to
tne stand and testified as follows: 81
nave mad business transactions with
MT. Baker during the past several
years. Mr.. Robson and l, after his
DIothers contract expired, made ar
engagements with him to farm our
iahH; During the past two years or
SO Mr.. Robson has had charge of most
o. tne business in connection with the
1arm but l have seen Mr.. Baker fire.
quently. Mr.. Bakers action during
an the time bhave known him, which
mas been several years, has not SEEM
60 peculiar to me. l thought him to
be rational"
The testimony of W. W. Vaught
was stricken out by order of the court.
thursday afternoon was taken up
Dy the expert testimony of DR.. Ed
ward Delehanty and DR.. George f.
Nlehouse, alienists from Denver.
both doctors testified that they had
held an inquisition, upon order of the
court, lnquiring into the sanity of
the defendant at the Jail in Jules
burg, October Goth, 1921, and after
their examination, which lasted for
about one hour and half, they re-
ported to the court that their find
ings was that the defendant, Baker,
was sane. The written report, sign
ed by these doctors and filed with the
Court at that time was introduced in
evidence, and read to the jury by at
torney Pelton. These doctors both in
answer to hypothetical question
testified that the defendant was sane.
Both doctors testified that they had
made a thorough study of mental di-
! seases and had specialized in ner-
vous and mental diseases for per-
iod Of several years Each doctor
| testified that after holding an inqui-
sition over the defendant and after
| hearing all of the testimony in the
present trial, that it was their positive
! opinion that the defendant was sane
on Wednesday, July 18th, 1921. At
torney Geo. Hastings, for the de-
fense, conducted rigid cross exami-
| nation of both these expert witnesses
but was unable to break down their
previous testimony.
1t was then announced that the
State rests.
:, Following a short recess the Court
read the instructions to the jury and
adjournment was taken until 900
o'clock Friday morning at which time
the arguments of the attorneys would
be had.
Court convened Friday morning at
nine o'clock. Attorney W. H. Pound
made the opening argument for the
People. This was followed by short
plea by Attorney H. A. Dano for the
defense. Attorney George Hastings
for the defense then made the closing
argument for the defense, his talk
lasting one hour and five minutes,
court taking recess at 11:45 o'clock
to one O'Clock P. M. At one o'clock
Attorney Isaac Pelton made the clos
ing argument for the People, consum-
ing one hour and five minutes in his
review of the case. Following this the
case was given to the jury and at 2:21
o'clock p. M. the jury returned YER
dict of Guilty, Penalty Life Impris-
onment."