Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-01-12
Rosetta Shop Trial
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to frame the high lights of a story
without regard to- truth, but that a
false story always falls down in the
details. Here he stated Conley had
fallen down and repudiated his testi-
mony several times throughout his
cross-examination. He then chal-
lenged the state attorneys by asking
why they had not gotten Miller or
Arnold, confessed partners in the
crime, to corroborate Conley's story.
In closing his charge he asked that
the jury would not take the testimony
of a nan with a former police record
in putting a blot on a youths life, but
that they would acquit Willie Jacobs
and send him back to his mother.
Prosecutor Solan now made his last
appeal to the jury. He said this case
was not a test of the character of Jack
Conley, but was a trial brought about
by the states officers after much work
and investigation in the hopes of
clearing up a band of criminals from
a place that was very important
in the county. 1--WE must get all of
those implicated before we can stop
crime" said he. I'VE would like to
get Mayor Smith or Senator Bright, or
any of our well known officials to
testify in having seen these men at
their work of robbing this place, but
unfortunately men who do these acts
do them at an hour when respectable
people are not out on the streets and
so We must take the testimony as it
comes from the prisoners themselves
in forming our conclusions and pass
ing sentence. The state heard one
mans story, a story that was not
broken down by cross-examination,
except in minor matters, and in ac-
cepting this story the state did not
have to call in any other prisoners.
That was a right that was held by the
defense as we'll as the state. Why did
not they call Arnold or Miller?" said
he. In summing up, he said. "Who
are these men? Grown men who go to
Wildwood in the summer to loaf
around the beach all day and spend
their nights at cabarets. They do
these things with no available means
of support. They admit they were all
in the same crowd throughout the
summer and that they knew one an
other well. AS to the high lights and
details I really must say that it SEEM
ed to me the high lights showed in the
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of the defense had the same lawyer
and their stories were so much alike
in regard to time and actions that it
almost sounds like the every day in
every way story to me. The high
spots of their night action are very
definite to them, but the minor de-
tails of what occurred during the day
of August I'd had to be left to their
regular routine life. Their stories
compare so exactly that they have
even had Willie Jacobs run on ahead
of them from the restaurant so that he
will be out of brath when he reaches
the house, and so compare with the
testimony set forward by Mary Brack-
en- on the stand here. Such accuracy
in accounts of their actions would not
be clear to these men had they not
been discussed previously as they
admitted doing in cross-examination.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this
has been a long and tedious trial. The
state has tried to do it's duty. Those
not thought implicated in the affair
have not been brought into it, but those
that are in it are involved in the case.
l am not interested in seeing punish
ment brought to any particular ones,
but l am interested in seeing crime
brought to justice and if the time
has come when a prisoners statement
is not to be believed, then the courts
have indeed reached a peculiar stage"
Judge H..H. Eldredge now charged
the jury, i~nstructing them to bring in
a verdict of not guilty against Amen
Jacobs, and that they use their own
right to convict or acquit the other
three defendants. The jury, consist
ing of Allen Douglass, foreman, Stan
ley Bats, Joseph Elwell, Robert Gar
ret, Martin A. Hilton, Thomas Marvel,
Uriah Norton, Anna Norcom, Frank T.
Swain, Lillian D. Steelman, Dora
Stiles and George Triple filed out of
the jury box at ESQ. A motion by
Lawyer Lloyd for the return of bail
for Amen Jacobs was granted by the
court. The jurors and witnesses were
now excused by the court from duty
until further notice. In less than an
hour after they had left the box the
jury returned to the court room and