Salt Lake Herald | 1900-12-27 | Page 2 | It Went with the Jury

It Went With the Jury Kansas City Star There Is nothing more successful in swaying a Jury and especially a Jury of farmers than the proper tion of sentiment said the old Iw yer I remember when Ralph B Tur nor ner who was sent up from Kansas City for larceny was tried in Topeka Turner defended himself He did the same in the trial of which I am think lug ing and after all the testimony was in inand Inand and it was damaging evidence too Turner Burner a 2 lea to the lury Gentlemen lie shW it lt i mp nr sible that I 1 have hare committal that crime Gentlemen my old father lies buried on the hills of Ne New Hampshire e and many years ago ugo when that godly old bItt man was ivas on his death bed bcd he put his hand on my head boy you have always bees and my comfort never neer dO disgrace your old fathers Seine the prisoners voice was wa chokin Choking An he continued AM It was wa not flot years ago ag that my saintly old laid her head down to rest I wa In sorrow to her bedside and the presence of the Awful and th i known my mother took look hers which Mi mv my a already was and whispered My boy as cold Id through life with all i lt you 1 temptations remember that thet an a your mother is watching you GentS 3 the jury I could not commit a erinne r n r Turner Furner was quite overcome w with uh t emotions But back in the N court was his hie andT and he L r to me and said with a smile Ur Did you hear that fellow his father and mother are both Wh But the jury turned him loo m The lawyer told another st Which the sentiment game wa waa a a Ettle too strong A young man he said was trial for murder in the flint fim dee i was charged with killing his father mother and the th proof wa was against him The jury returned I k verdict of guilty The prisoner er a called before the court to be and as asis ts the custom the judge a L If you have any reason reas why h s n tence should not be passed Upon u uI you may give It now I any judge said the rn r excepting that I think you ou ought v te to pity on a poor orphan