Show BOYS WERE ACQUITTED I Abrupt Termination of the Cisco Robbery Cass Case in m the Fed Federal Federal Federal eral Court The trial of ef e sad and Justus JuKus Hatch and Dave en ties the charge of bur bar burglarizing the at st Cisco came to toan toan toan an abrupt termination in the United States Stat court yesterday by the acquittal of all an three defendants Judge King Kins counsel tot for tire tile young men secured the result on a motion for peremptory in instructions Instructions to the Jury which the court readily granted The government concluded its Us case be before before before fore the noon roses recess The Tite witnesses es placed on the stand ir It the th morning were R It A Greene Greens recalled Martha Camp Campbell Campbell Campbell bell A W Morse Mone T A Ketchum Ket hum the detective and Henry Blevins The tes testimony was wall damaging against a the defend defendants defendants ants allt Mr Greene identified all three of them theIR as the men meR who held him up and rifled the safe afe and by means of the other witnesses the prosecution traced their movements But the cue case hinged en an a technical I point As court resumed session HUlon in the afternoon Judge King arose and moved that the court cert instruct lq the Jury to return 1 a verdict of ot not guilty In his argument supporting the notion motion Judge King averred first that the defendants had I been tried in the state tate court at Moab on the same evidence presented here and had bad been acquitted Continuing counsel counsell argued that there had bad been no Intent i shown to rob the government but on i ithe the contrary the testimony of the gov governments governments governments witnesses showed that the de defendants defendants had kept away from that por per pertin i tin of the room used as a po and andor andoL ot or of them had made a remark to the I effect that they wanted nothing to do with Uncle Sam If there were any in inte tet te it it was to commit a common lar larceny larceny ceny cony and not a felony robbing the post poet and for that reason Judge King maintained that the boys boy could not be i tried under uDder the United States Stales 8 statutes and again pointed to the Ute fact that they i had been acquitted in the state court Another point brought out strongly by I counsel was the lack of ot anything to show that there had bad been any breaking into the postoffice I District Attorney Whittemore replied briefly to Judge Kings Kiu argument and aDd I the f court then instructed the jury say Ing Gentlemen of the Jury I will relieve you of any responsibility in la this ease case well while Wb e th the evidence in the case ease tends tend to show snow a of the laws of or the state of Utah I 1 am ala of the Ule opinion that it does i inot not show any violation of ot the laws of the United UJ ted States S te Therefore I instruct you Ii to find the defendants not guilty of ot the crime they are charged with in this court The verdict was was wai returned without the customary withdrawal of the Jury from the court ourt room The defendants were the recipients of ot many congratulations on the outcome The boys nave have ba ve borne good rep reputations reputations in their community heretofore This nis ends the calendar of ot United States cases for the present term |