Weekly journal-miner., 1921-09-07
GEORGE
 FOUND GUILTY
From Sundays Dai1y)

Frank George stood without quiver last night at $40 when his jurors announced their verdict con- victing him of murder in the first degree and condemning him to life imprisonment
 The jury had been out since 4:1O. Shortly after o'clock, attaches of the court summoned Judge Stanford and counsel for the state and ac- cused from the bar association ban quet honoring Judge Richard Lam son. Very soon afterward, the court room was comfortably filled. Deputy sheriffs escorted George to seat and soon Mrs. George joined him, sit ting beside her husband, clasping his arm and resting her Cheek on his shoulder. When the verdict was an- nounced, the wife began weeping, but showed remarkable self-contro1, otherwise.
 Six days of trial were required to complete the George case Hearing of evidence occupied the greater part of this time. The case has been heard by large crowds who have packed the court room for virtually ievery session.
 Scramble for Places
 If those who scrambled their way into the superior court room at 80 yesterday afternoon were imbued with a faith in the attorneys elo- quence, their onslaught was inspired. So were counsel
 The blistering verbal lash of E. s. Clark, special prosecutor of Frank George, was not spared during the address of one hour that closed the argument To Mir Clark, the task of summing up the states case was at once a duty and privilege, even though not a pleasure. When he had done, a masterpiece of legal argument had been pronounced and the soiemnity of the court, so ably preserved during six trying days by Judge R. C. Stanford had been aug mented by that of an occasion, the real meaning of which could be glimpsed among the stinging phrases.
 C. C. Norton, chief of defense counsel, closed the case for the ac- cused with a peroration, which If not always happy in its allusions, was far above the ordinary run of argu- ment In his ardor, the defense at torney at one time alluded in bitter terms to E. c. Grove, one of the principal state witnesses, and the court interrupted to ask that, al though MT. Grove was from Mari copa county, he be not so referred to.
 Frank George sat, impressive dur ing even the highest moments in the addresses. Once while Norton was pleading for the preservation of the George family, the young wife wept silently. During Clark's most caus- tic periods, the young woman gritted her teeth and clinched her small fist i'll restrained anger.
 The court room was damned to suffocation. MT. Russell concluded his morning statement very briefly. It was his opinion that Ed Bowers had made a mistake for which he paid with his life.
 The Clark argument started. with a tribute to the deceased and a stern rebuke to those who had credited him with unlawful and violent haste in entering the George home. He al luded to the invocation" of the name of Ed Bowers as a "desecra- ton and an insult"
 Continuing, the special prosecutor spoke as he said he believed Ed Bow CTS would have spoken, could he re- turn to earth and tell his story He called the defense ''bosh, nonsense and rot'
 The court finished reading instruc lions and dismissed the jury at 4:10. The adjournment, Judge Stanford an lounced for the record, would be in reverence to the late A. C. Baker, deceased, chief justice of the state supreme court.