The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-02-04
Verdict in
Adams Trial
Wednesday
FORMER HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE
WAS CONVICTED BY MANKATO
JURY WEDNESDAY OF LAST
WEEK.

Homer Adams, former employee at
The st. Peter state hospital, was found
guilty of marslaughter in the second
degree by a jury in the Bile EARTH
county district court on Wednesday
afternoon, in connection with the
death of Miss Kathryn Delaney in an
automobile accident on November LIST.
The verdict was returned after foul
hours of deliberation by the jury. The
verdict had a recommendation for
leniency attached Court was to i'm
pose sentence at o'clock toGay, says
the st. Peter Herald.
The Adams case was brought to
trial on Tuesday, several witnesses
being called that day and Wednes-
day by the state. The defense, under
the direction of attorney C. 0. Daley
and C. j. Laurisch, offered no tes-
.imony for the defendant and the case
went to the jury at AIS p. m. that
day. Yesterday morning, the defense
attorney made motion for a stay
allowing application for new trial.
The court denied the motion in the be-
lief that the record had better be
closed as it stood in view of the yer
dict returned, and after the imposi-
lion of sentence, such an application
can be made, pending motion for a
new trial.
This is one of the most sensational
cases on record in this vicinity and il
has been occupying columns of space
in the papers during the past two
months. 1t started early last year
when Homer Adams and Alfred Wieh,
both employed at the state hospital.
and married men started to keep
company with girls in Mankato. They
used false names, Adams going as
Lloyd Brown and Wieh as Paul John
son, and they claimed that their homes
were in LIE Sueur.
On the night of October 31st, Adams
and Wieh, in company with Miss
Kathryn Delaney and Miss Gladys
Ayres, went to a dance at Mapleton.
1t was while returning from this dance
in the wee hours of the morning thai
theefatal accident occurred at bend
in the road near Mankato. Adams
Chevrolet car, according to the ties
timony brought out during the trial,
was travelling at rate of speed be
tween 80 and 35 miles ain hour. He
mad just passed another car and did
not see the sharp turn. His machine
took the ditch and Miss Delaney was
mortally wounded in the crush. She
was taken to ST. .Joseph's hospital in
Mankato by passerbys and there doc
tors found that her spleen was rup-
tured Her death resulted short
time later.
Adams was apprehended by the
Mankato police and at the inquest
ne was charged with negligence and
lodged in Jail. He has since been
confined in Mankato awaiting trial,
being indicted for manslaughter in
the second degree.
At the trial, Miss Ayres was put
on the stand by the prosecution She
.old the details of the trip to Maple
ton and also of the accident. She
testified that the car was travelling
ut rate of about 35 miles an hour
On approaching the turn and that she
did not remember of Adams Stacking
speed. Chauncy Anderson, whose car
was passed Dy the Adams machine
just before the accident, testified that
the speed of the death car was 35
miles an hour. Campbelle Potter and
! Esther Antonson, passengers in the
Anderson car, substantiated these
statements also. Others who testified
Tor the state were: Mrs. Mary Pear
son, sister Of Miss Delaney, Frank
Abraham, who took Miss Delaney to
the hospital; AL. Kirchner, deputy
county surveyor; DIR. C. A. Cosgriff
and DIR. A. E. Sohmer, who attended
Miss Delaney after the accident
MankatO Free Press.