The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-05-18
T.rrRMAN IS GUILTY
,.cided Last Night On Second
sentence saturday
Roth Trial On.

.ooe of State of Idaho VS.. Geo
r..orman reported that 1T has
decision The word was
,v.d TO Judge Scales, the defend
III Il his counsel and the state {
=. and in few moments court
1oF1E !. session. with some 25 specta
ubo had been scattered about tbs
sose ...ts discussing the probable finding
i. ;urv. assembled to hear the re-
price for n To the judge 3 question as tc
BY Enrm. a. ;urv,s reaching verdict, Charles
is. II .l : uocolister who had been elected
Soyol .,..mon answered, ''We have" Fol
ot;o.' '''' l,r;uo the usual procedure, the slip
y ~ ~ a naper bearing the finding was pas
e'eian .sd 70 Clerk Emerson, who, after re-
'eie 10 sell .o,diug the verdict, read "We, the
'ut When ;u,v find the defendant guilty as
ed at $lS charged"
there va. The result seemed not unexpected 70
took us those gathered there as principals ana
ared tbo. sneetators of the most important case
over tried out in Lewis county. The
GAVE ;nrv had gone out at sos p. M, and
though five hours elapsed before a
turn over. conclusion was gained, the impression
Iva bo.., seemed prevalent before the announce
y - hent was made that in that time only
one conclusion was likely. For brief
: = "esls suace after the clerk had read the YER
diet the quiet one could have heard a
: II save pin drop, prevailed. Then Judge
ton Tran Scales gave final dismissal to the
twelve men who had been sitting con-
tnuously on this case for over eleven
sn'rs DAYS and directed the sheriff to take
charge Of the man whom their verdict
'''ns vi had just pronounced guilty of break
casting inc the law of Idaho in making false
Total IN report on the 14th day of May, 1920
annual TO the state banking department of the
= 50 per condition of the State Bank of Kan
gn away. iah on the preceding 4th day of May
q fo ra The brief evening session soon
he mpia brought to a close, and the long trial
los0 b..I ended. The jury had taken but
~, = two ballots
!, a. G. f. Waterman appeared in court
y, qs' on its opening this morning and thru
| to the Ii, counsel cntorod . motion for bail
otales pending an appeal, which motion was
denied, and Judge Scales set 10 o'clock
Saturday morning as the time for pas
sing sentence upon him. The maxi
lleu " mum penalty under the charge is one
se bl,' and half to three years in the peni-
Y5 gas tentiary and $1,000 fine.
up The The climax of this trial, which was
lights commenced two weeks ago came yes
L9 051 terday during the argument of counsel
chief before the jury The technical nature
j tbs Of the case had caused public interest
tr;ot. IN the proceedings to lag from the time
the jury had been impaneled until yes
p0"'' terday morning, when the argument
was taken up, and from the beginning
Of Prosecuting Attorney Pennell's well
organized and effectively delivered
0Pos speech, about IL a. M, until the case
pepsS ~ went to the jury at sos p. m. the at
e@ tendance grew along with the interest
~, rno 1t was in the afternoon when Attorney
Miles s. Johnson was making the clos
ing argument for the defense and the
attention was close that he became too
. personal in his references to the Ex-
pert Witness John HI. Becker who as
auditor of the defunct bank Is records
fOr the banking department had ac-
eumulated the bulk of the states evI-
denee. and a brief tilt of words en-
1 N' NiodIlHS no Q1SOTuof, UuI PuoeiiiS
an electric current in the air which
iOr the instant made everyone " sit
up"
Further detail of the attorneys
Presentation of the case will appear
IN The Herald next week.
The action against Leslie Roth,
Oookkeeper in the bank under Water
man, and answering like charge, was
started this morning, when the exam
nation of 40 veniremen called was be-
gun Up to going to press ten OF
'ae required jurymen had been secur-
ca and the venire was exhausted, and
eisht more entremen were called.
In this action Attorney Fred E. But
ier, OF Lewiston, is handling the de-
iendant's case and Prosecuting Attor-
aey Pennell and Attorney S. o. Tanna-
nll, OF Lewiston, the state s.
F. U. Meeting June 8.