Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-26
ALICE thornton,
S0BS
"can't Tell How Happy ! Am,"
Says Girl in Bergen
Murder Case
THREE DEFENDANTS FREED
RI a stat Correspondent

win t"o ''n, I,,,, p,ruo, ,;,o
n her sweetheart' ouch neise"' "in.
+ccn -year- r-old Alice Thornton faced the
Iii today. free in name only.
"o,, .,,,.,o ;s ,horo loft for mo in ,ifep"
Nhat i, ' ,,,...,,- .,... 49,.
she had asked Pilitu'iv' shor. t'me
before she was brought to trial four
,..a ,,, "Eycn If I am acquitted,
"ass as ,,oro tbo tcrrih,o st,do,.
and freeu OIL % orcr mo ;,
Will always ''.' ,L;a rool;zat;o, nc ro,,
Anm n e,,, WIS ,hn tcnsinn ne donb+ ond
as relief from which lc "a,,se 1 tbe o"ph oil anu 10
nnccr'a,,n,. a,,.,, IN Tho courtroom vcsterdav
break u""n as " sbc hoard tbe ycrdict -
afternoon do '"' ''' u
the july. -, I, bor chair sohb;ro
-,n. nua'ri; r,;rt;pc at first shc could nSt
almost lu,','s LIZ %o,t;nclv With '"'u soi"t t"
SPEAK, anu ,,,iio str,,eei;,y With hn.
nm. o, ho d so;d. "''
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can .hni, .vi ,nE ,nw.yot w ."tbS ;,,.n a'"'
wan, ~ .bosn m'ho k,vo bcfrienJod ny >,
ana an ino'u s,,i,n ,ros r.oshaJ o,,.nn ,.' =,
bu' I ,ni shn sbrank hark Crow" tha
'caiS "nI onnos ,hich u,oro furroI ho ~.
curious s.'" ~. thn .nectators iof, 'tn tha
upon ,uan,, mrr 80 '"e
cour'roo'n'
Spends the Night In Jail
sbo was taken immediately 10 the
al, where she spent the night.
'Tberr were hundreds of persons sur.
roundinp the inil and the courthouse
waiting for MISS mormon ana George
llne 10 nun nf,ar NO triai ".e ~ anu II
vas .ho hou,~ o,,r,ronr, omntioi 49, %o o'rr, .h
anu anu s,r,a,ler s.u Jriftcd away 0ioi' 'ne
''S, ..1Io 10 nr;sd didn.t ba p; :.;d = s,u
,,- i,u not scornf,,Ilv but vvondor;mn1n sm'a,,
~, nu' ,,st hn ..so,,oth;n; t,'rr;hIs;H as
oi'. J., ,'un, ,'or ~ crr ''' 'oie ~
MAY. ,r,, cI;no tT;d os IN huu,,, ~,
soca ,o"i !, b;s hands and said ."Thoni, m LIZ
"a )" ,nd than IN ~ VIII, &c "aln I'm
.rabhod Howard Nackav Snnator VII!
i,n,D W,cto~ h;s connscl,s hrotbar W.,
h,,nrod ,"m, hin, "'u
Nro Cy;no Ind oono IN bor bo,,o -,
soon ns she could get nwav from, .ho h
courthouse, but only after the a,,tomo no.,
b;lo sbr was in hnd threaded II. wov
onnno omr thc neonlo who rrowIed aronnS NY
tbrnst;ng their hands thrm,pb tho ,,;n
dow rafting bor arm. conrratrIat;n.
Nor and wishing bcr bappiness and ins
In the future.
IIer hat was off. and her tlorl, hair
hunr loosely about her facc. 50 male md
so ninchcd. exhaustion so plainly writ.
Ton unon II MS 70 he almost visible like
y veil clinging to it. but shy gratitude
and honnincss so overwhelming us to
bo almost unrealized as vet. shininr in
her ewes.
Taunted by Voice In Crowd
"WOuld you want to go home to wait
for your husband if your husband had
been forced into killing the man who
o.onJ prt ~" Nr. "Tinn M.s o" nbova the |
barbed arrows of unfayorable criticism
only one thing mattered to her. il was
clear. Her husband was free, and so
she was happy with the happiness that
comes only with the sliding away Of a
dread burden and haunting fear.
And her husband was freed on the
first ballot cast by the Jury of six
women and six men who tried the case, |
as was Alice Thornton and Charles |
Scullion, the fnte of the three being
decided separately.
Before returning to the court the |
members agreed not TO talk of + ,ir SEES. |
sion, but they did say that on the eyi.
dence presented by the Prosecutor the |
State did not prove its case.
They refused to discuss the unwr,tten
law in deciding what the verdict would |
be, though one of the women iurors
was afterward heard to remark "Nv
husband would have shot him too If
he had been in Cline's ploce -
The Cline residence in Edeewoter !,
n second story room of which Tho shoot
ing of Bergen occurred inst two mnntb.
ago to q day, was the scene of ravcty
last night as friends md members ~
their families welcomed the arnuittoj 4
Trio home. iN''''u
Trial Was Unusual
The trial was unusual I'm several re-
Spocts. For the first time in thc his.
tory of judicial practice in New Jcr. 1
scy. a verdict in n murder trinl wns
handed up by n woman. Miss Susan
Squires. The evidence. which resoivoJ
itself largely into a series - mnroi
problems. was passed mon nv q inv
composed equally Of men md woIon nan
And finally. il was one Of the sneediest
trials ever held in State noted for
tho rapidity of it's iudicini marb;nerv
dofonru 1 y, S"n Wns u'Suu! tue