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Show hie Jinv is oif Still Deliberating on Verdict in Majors Case. At 10 o'clock, yesterday morning, morn-ing, Judge! Hart began . his charge to the jury in the Majors case. The document comprised 49 spna rat articles and was on mined struggle was made on both sides by the prosecution'; ta fasten a ncose around Majors' j neck.. by the defense to: ..remove ' it from him. The prosecution j steadily advancod the idea that1, the killing of Brown was cold j blooded murder, whereas the de- j fense earnestly contended, by the i evidence they produced,. -that j Majors had-nothing- to do iwith Brown's death, t The prosecution prosecu-tion also 'produced ; evidence that Majors has twice attempted to escape It was a hard fought trial and one that will remain distance. Mr. Brown fired over them to stop them, and the defendant de-fendant and his brother prepared pre-pared to shoot. But juct then Archie Majors fell and Abe Majors Ma-jors turned and tired two shots, killing Brown Thus say .these itwo officers. Can they ; be mis-I mis-I taken? I say they cannot and it is impossible for them to be rcis-' rcis-' taken: they are both well known land have. ..lived . here all their '.lives. If we are not to . believe (evidence such as that, then it j will be impossible to obtain con-viction con-viction in any case. the usual lines. : One. fact was presented however, which may have an important bearing , on . the verdict, and that is, that if the jury finds that Majors and his brother were engaged in. opj posing the officers, and that either killed Brown, then both are equally guilty. The jury retired re-tired at 11 a. m , to a room in . the court house. " -:' At a late hour last evening the jury had not reached a verdict. famous in the history of Logan. At 7 o'clock Wednesday eve-' ning, before a large number of! people. Attorney Edward M. ! Allison of Ogden, began his ad-j dress to the jury. He briefly referred re-ferred to the solemnity of the duty which devolves upon the-jurymen, the-jurymen, and continued: We claim,! gentlemen, in'- brief, that Abe Majors :- shot W illia m A. Brown on the 29th of April, 1899, but I have yet to learn Attorney Frank E.. Martin was the first speaker Thursday, on the side of the defense. He said: There 'is a general , idea that when attorneys defend a man for crimes of this class, they do all they can to free him, whether he is guilty or not, but it is not the case. In this case we have tried . only to get the facts. -We have tried to find out! the truth. ... The prosecutor dwelt long on the hold up of Hanson, but cltv i fendant is not on ' trial for that, and it has nothing to do w ith his guilt in this case. I shall confine myself to the facts beginning, with the shooting beginnii g at j the Hot Springs. ; If as Thomp-' Thomp-' son claims, this '.' defendant and 'his brother, had shot at the officers of-ficers and the bullets had gone close to their heads,, th. n I ,say some of the - .bjuUets would have . Constable Wells of Willard j was recalled by the prosecuf.cn iii the Majors case Wednesday' . morning. He testified briefly as, to the position of Majors body after death - He could hot state positively its distance from the rock behind which Abe Majors -hid. but thought it was four feet. Dr. John F. Critchlow of bait Lake City was next called and proved an important witness for the prosecution He testified - ,vw 1,-mo-c flesh, and other what claim is made by the de-1 fense: In their opening statement state-ment they announced that they would prove that Brown was not killed by either of the Majors brothers, but they have not yet advanced any proposition as . to who did or why they could not I have been guilty. The position : of Sheriff ; is a thankless -one, and the defense here would seek ' to indicate that probably .one of I these sheriffs killed the dead- of-! of-! ficer, - I say to you, gentlemen tissues through which the bullet . passed in brown's . body were f compressed with the fingers they . would make about three inches of tissue such as that from which the thigh is composed, and. that they would-offer the same resist-! kdc to a- bullet as one and one-half one-half inches of white pine. He cave it as his strong opinion that fc.,i fmm a 45-calibre of the jury, that unless uieu v this kind are convicted of crimes of this kind by the evidence of I officers sworn to do their duty,' then no conviction will ever be made.: I - ask you -to consider I whether the -officers had any object in testifying' falsely,, or whether the defendant had any object in . telling an . untruth wben.be desired thereby to save landed in the ounaing, u. . have preven to you there were 1 none. We have also hon you that this defendant intended next morning to. go down to. the , of ficer and surrender., .Thpshow5 that th.ere was ;no. murder .pre- ! meditated by this 'defendant. Before Be-fore you can find" him guifty of 'murder as. cb arged ytlglJ.'Jg- -army revolver- such as the .Majors boys had would have, -one from -them to Brown and perforated his fcody in -4e way I . that was done.' , ,, l Deputy Sheriff F. J Marshall, testified that the Cache county iail had been rearranged inside this year; and that no P"ners had been sent from here -to the state ; penitentiary ince Jan. 1. Gpurt adjourned for noon. his life. The officers get notnmg if this defendant is convicted and 1 it is asking you to believe too , much to claim that these officers , -would perjure themselves for the purpose of sending an innocent, man to the gallows. . 1 The defendant was convicted of burglary when he was fif :een vears old and sentenced to ten :Vears in the' penitentiary. tie and his brother were traveling through Utah heavily armed convinced that he prcnudit-icu j this crime. i : -. . - ' ' The speaker referred to the plat which had been prepared of the -ground whetein the dead I bodies lay. and pointed out that a great amount at evidence proved that the white pistol lay inear Abe Majors and it had not ' been fired:while the black pistol, ! which had been fired, was found near the .dead Majors. Thee I mute evidences testify eloquent- Thev were here tor no gooui, purpose. One of them had tools in his pocket which might have been used - for burglary. They met old man Hanson, robbed ; him, bound him. gagged him, ana, left him, for all they knew to : die Sheriff Cardon and Deputy Thompson left at midnight with Uhe bravery that characterizes ' officers, and started - at; once in I v to the innocence of tins young man If vou follow this evidence w. and find that the pistol which , this young man had was not fared I thence it is impossible for him t to be -guilty. . - ... 1 1 Mr. MeGurrin read a quantity j of the evidence presented. at .the former trial and pointed qut in-accm-acies in that and the: pres- ent trial evidence, showing that - Jude Botkin and Detective Sheets were the first witnesses . ?iethes-andin the Majors case, -W ednesday afternoon. JJotn , iave itas their opinion, based would go 45 yards from a ' Sre revolver and penetrate Brown's body in the manner that lt SSbytstifiedthat .it pursuit, alter Hanson I tunate enough , to break loose land give the alarm. The attorney : sketched the I episode at Hot Springs, when 'the two officers attempted to I capture the Majors brothers, and ! said that, the latter: would not ! have thrown the stolen articles the witnesses were o.tt against this defendant., be took up the expert testimony and referred re-ferred to the : weight which should be placed On the word of yeterans like Generals Penrose and Tatlock, and the unreliable character of much of the expert; testimony which was presented i would be possible to pass a pis-, through' the bars to a prisoner prison-er in the cell in the Logan jail. - Cashier Hatch of the Thatcher j bank was called to testify as to Se handwriting of - Major. . bat ifter some argument the prohe cution excused him from giving 8VDan Woodland of Box Elder! ElSei county was cal ed and Both sides then rested, and a seSon of court was announced . t A ednesday to neai away if they had not oiv the pursuers were officers, l sav this defendant knew . they were officers, he continued, andj had they surrendered as he now claims he wanted to do, then I Brown would have been aln e ! today On this defendant rests ithe responsibility for the pursuit :next day and the death of I Brown. ' '" . :... 4-v,., by the prosecution, ne Attorney Allison for having ., "entered this case through be- lig hired for purposes of re.-ven-e". He arsued -against the idea that the defendant tried to escape from the court room in Brio-him, and denounced the let- Iter claimed to have been written I by Majors, as a rank-forgery, palpably false and forged on i Zr7x m Wednesday to Se fi?st argument of the prose-cation. prose-cation. " The hearing wes marked by , . rrvSlity-of ev . - hearing of evidence took' a Week and a day, and a uetei its own face- He dissected the letter piecemeal and maintained that it could not have been writ-1 ten by a sane man, ..because it contains so many improbable! suggestions. , I flowed Jl1M!in,V U,,b (C un inneilon pcee 21 - I The speaker then ionoweu r.urse of events through the next da.y and up to . the time when the officers agan dcov-' dcov-' Tied the robbers. The officers 'called upon them to halt, and they did n.t stop. Th.-ycor.tin-lued rum.ing as fast as they ' could, and the officers caught up with (hem after passing some I fiud lii ni fuiltv renr.llofs of t b ,j 'cutis' queoces t biic The at'or. UevS f"T 'he ill fenue, wjlhr.pt nil' j evidence to pr-ve their case, have m tempted by specious arguments j to blind your eyes to the true j facts. VbR,t motive is there for Sheriff Cardou or Sheriff Beluat to testify wrongly iu this cs-They cs-They (b the entire transaction, aud it is ilieir wocd- auniuet tb word of t.hu defeDdat-t who it. j charged with the murder iUeif. I want to sir. pentlemen.-'in renU j t j the iuueudoes of the other side, j that Mr. All sui has performed a (great work f r the 6tnte, aud ;he IcauDot get a ceit from th- t-tate 'for his service here. He canuot, therefore, be tM purchesed attorney attor-ney a i charged. As citizens ot this state vou Lave the respobsi-j ibilit resting upon jou t see toe laws of this btbt-s upheld. You kuow tbis defendant ' is uot Charged With rnblmit.- lint mo i you to consider that the iefendant and Lin brother committed )iiKh-: )iiKh-: way robbery aud that this defendant defen-dant coinmitt.td muMer while at-,' at-,' tempting to escap from the offi-i ctis. Thse trivial 1 contadic-l I lions in testimony nave no weight! when compared witb the testi-j mony of these two eye witnesses: t the shooting. The mere fact; that tbev sliohr.ii? rli-,orax '.minor points prove that they have , not agreed on anv. stpry. Their : every word shows that tb'ey simply simp-ly desired to tell the truth. The ; attorney followed each part of th? evidence and maintained the! iu ferity of the testimony pr, sen-t sen-t tefl by the prosecution. The attorney drew a srra'phic picture of the heroism of "the of- i fibers, and paid a high tribute to Sheriff Card on. He said there I are a fev- main faces in this easel wnicn stand ont clear above the slight differences' in the unimportant unim-portant testimony and they, point out the guilt of this de-1 fendant. j the majors case. ' 'CoarinneJ from page 1.) making elount andjffectiva ad-drfssts ad-drfssts and we regret a synopsis is crowded out. Attorney Frank K. Nebeker was the last speaker, aud made an extended etitement for the prose, i ontuw. He said Attirwy SJc-j Lrurrin coufineii himself t reasoD ! i't that the other two attorney I made stump speeches racier than ' addresses to a reasonable jury 1 know that you are good j u ry m en i and I know that if the evidence I proves this defendant committed! cold blooded murder you will1 |