Show MRS VAN it took the provo jury but a short time to do it I 1 THE JUDGES CONCISE CHARGE Dofan defendant daut warmly by christian antho in tho court room r oom who hod predicted tho the verdict cauca before justice smith of this city IreD eald with drivers disturbers and peddlers lors all day yesterday in judge smiths court fai in the morning Z until 1 4 in lit alie afternoon barring tho the noon ic a cc the mattorri att orneia in the van ratten patten case spread themselves mr jacob johnson opened for or the prosecution houtz dusen dusell beny ond and king in the order named for the defense and assistant As prosecuting attorney thurman closed during the hi the courtroom and hallways were crowded to their full capacity most moist of the time the greater creator number of the visitors vere nere ladles ladies anil and a number stood up lip tor for hours at a time lime adiong the fair visitors some come christian scientists exercising an crua irua enco ence in mrs van pattens ts behalf the defendant spent a great deal of 0 her ter time weeping weep lne especially while her ai tornes were speaking while the prosecuting attorney was closing osine cl she looked angry and at times shook her head while the many fair visitors had donned their naster bonnets and nice dresses the defendant de was very modestly attired in black at a little after 4 p m the judge jude charged the jury as follows gentlemen of the cumi jumi jury this the defendant Is accused by this indictment n cam ent of the crime of at murder in the first degree it 1 if 13 3 alleged that some home time lime in oc october ISM IM in b ban n pete county in this distri sirlei ei she he A ill tulia and feloniously and aith a specific intent to take life nd ministered administered poison to one soren soran nellson from the effects ot of h ho died I 1 you that the time or date of the act if it was committed 14 N wholly immaterial in this ca case e and I 1 alpo charge you that Ephr ephraem alm in san retis peto county 19 a W within athin the jurisdiction of this court so that you nee ke there are arc two principal questions of fact for you to determine in hi this cm case c first I arst did ail soran roll die from the effects of poison second was waa the pot pon on administered to him by the defendant with the specific intention of taking hla his life ahe in order to find the defendant guilty you mut must answer both of the theny ir questions in it the and beyond a reasonable doubt they are arc purely qu questions eitt lons of fact you must look into the evidence upon the subject and de determine e fart b beyond I 1 a reasonable doubt whether cheth e r or a not 0 t soren died fro from the affect a of poison if you find that he did then you iiii next inquire whether or not this poison was willfully and feloniously ad ministered to him by tile the defendant with the specific intention of taking his life all murder which Is 19 accomplished by polson poison Is murder tit in the first degree in this caso case different poisons are named in the two counts in the indictment if you find that died from the effects of laudanum or rough on rats or hoth both and that cheso abeso have been willfully Ill fully and f feloniously administered to him by via the he defendant with an intention to take his life then the defendant Is cohly afta although 0 u ch you ore are not certain which of th tha 0 O killed tied him I 1 the case on the part of the prosecution Is attempted to be node made out by means of what Is called circumstantial evidence now upon that question qu eillon I 1 charge charyce you that if you can reasonably reconcile all the circumstances circumstance i proven with the ills innocence of the defond t it is s your duty duly to do M and to acquit her although vou van might bellevo upon the doctrine of chances chance or that it Is more likely that she is in guilty than that idle ahe Is im not guilty it Is your bus bust no noaa to a de determine t erm ne what facts rind and circumstances are proven to exist beyond a reasonable doubt and then determine from these facts and circumstances circum stances so 0 o proven whether they conn convince ince your own I 1 binds beyond a reasonable doubt that nellien camo came to his hl death from poison and that the poison was willfully and fel on busly administered by the defendant w with till an intention to take his ufa life the defendant la Is presumed umed to be innocent of the charge and cannot bo be co convicted n unless her guilt Is shown show n beyond a reasonable doubt you or the tha exclusive judges of the facts in this case you ore are to determine the weight of the testimony the credibility of each velt witness ness who hoa has hern becia before you you should consider the manner of tile the witness on the stand the rea reasonableness or unreasonableness of the statements Blate monta made whether or not the witness 1 Is contradict pd by other credible testimony whether the bitne m has any interest terest in the result of the sellout or has manifested v feeling or desire to obtain a specific verdict and from all the circum and facts before you determan what ir has sworn morn thi the truth and what witness has haa sworn falsely if any if any witness has sworn willful willfully lv false fale I 1 in n a material matter you at are e at liberty to diar disregard entire entirely lv tile the testimony or of such w witness I 1 in ce unless g less hla his ies testimony bo a corrao bor abed bv tho the other ter testimony anil and the facts and circumstances of the th cast case it if upon unon the whole of the evidence vou believe that the defend defendant gmt or some other per borson son poisoned soron soren and fand him willfully ind and feloniously and you on entertain a reasonable doubt an aj to which of two P persons r did it 11 you must acquit the defendant but I 1 if she d old aid d or encouraged another person to do tho the let act then she la 19 equally guilty as if she bad done it herself hersel at 45 0 p m the jury had agreed upon tipon a verdict and filed into the courtroom all the ladles except two christian scientists had left the courtroom I 1 kven ven the defendant had retired she was hurriedly sent for however and came into the courtroom with a most anxious look on her face the jury was p polled and the foreman handed in the following verdict NOT GUILTY we the jury em paneled in the hc above entitled cause find the deen defendant dant not guilty widle while clerk peery was vas reading the verdict mrs van patten was anxiously leaning forward in her chair when thi the words not guilty were pronounced she alio partly arose from her chair and audibly said alil oil then she heartily shook the hands of her attorneys and as the judora were films filing by she tea reached e hed across a table an and d shook the han hands d s 0 of f two of thern them and pleasantly said thank you she probably w would have shaken the hands of all the jurors but one of the christian eclen scientists flats ca came in 0 up behind her and was anxious to shake the defendants hand 1 I toll told you what the verdict would be said the Chr alan lillan scientist seemingly as much elated as mrs van patten Filec ils house richard J files of act east seventh south street called at police ten feel about 11 yesterday morning 41 and n d reported thit that on an the previous night hla his house had been burglary burg burglarized larl 7 I 1 1 during his absence entrance vas aas effected by a rear window A general search of the house was made and while mr alice returned ho he discovered that a silver allver watch and chain a watch ca 9 0 a massive gold eold chain some 1 instruments st mild gold rimmed eyeglasses and a variety of other articles had been taken detective heels him has ahk th affa altair fr in hand and la is hopeful of catching the thief SALT LARE LAKE POLICE COURT noo klose gricco Story Peace a disturber unlicensed Padd saddlers paddlers lers e flay was a fairly busy us r day in t the he police court judge smith djs dis of cases a as 3 follows magalis mitchell Ml and dollie jennings each forfeited for prostitution thomas klaff the orator octor WILO was visa axis led for being drunk flad and erve thag A disturbance dUd by jt p crowd ot cit in VM given till lit this morning to get ert out at 0 town DRUNK walter evans wall waa arrested yesterday morning on the complaint of 0 wll wil clarn klant for using ofle all and language langu ae ile was waa mi arral cued before eldre smith and pleaded guilty and in III extenuation raid lie was drunk at the time and wal mi very sorry honor nned him 5 later attorney hamilton asked that tho the sentence bo be recon sid eted ren representing resenting that avans was a poor mari man ani and had a family to support par tile tha prosecuting witness kraut join joined d in the request and fin tor r the sake of 0 the niane wife mi that evans evana be let id off the judge judee wt ivas in a mild mood and ordered the rills pil to bo be dl discharged oia wed IT meakin was waa sentenced to nerve haven ell days in jail a or r pay a fine or of 3 7 tor being drunk ile HP went to jail RECKLESS DRIVING bud and jim sullivan alin t 0 two lec beckless ilesa kless drivers were brought i up lt p for 0 trim trial officer gil I 1 emple who made the arrests arrest said raid he warned tit tho men to desist but they only laughed nt at him ind and continued their mail mad ciar car or along alone second south street whipping ind and abusing the horse as wont went their ser sentence tence was waa to pay a firlo of 0 3 5 each sullivan paid up but foreman went to jail SAM sair STORY samurl giles who waa aras arrested some days claye a ago on the charre charge of th the petit lepetit larceny alny of a set of battles from IL K N thomas on maich 2nd and was arraigned arral 0 ed yesterday before police jule judge smith gilce pleaded not sulky guilty and on oil the witness stand aland went into it lengthy ec plan atlon of how lie he became possessed of HIP harness and other oilier articles which were found in ills of which there was quite ft a ni number miler besides the harnas stolen from it K X thomasi a set bet belonging to john C cutlar and anial two other sets bets for whom have not yet been found also aloo a number of table napkins and miter ware to mr cutter cutler grice said bald lir lie found the harneit in the brush near his house over the J jordan or d all I 1 lver liver and was on its ills way to the Sli erins office to give them up when he wp was s met by detectives detective sheets and rhodes and arrested and thrown into jall jail despite I 1 his protests it appeared that mr cutler had bail befriended grice mho ho was in almost 8 stances ind and given both him and his bis wife work when they were sadly in need after hearing the evidence judge jude smith took the ease under advisement until 10 this morning SENT UP FOR FOP TEN DAYS fred washington colored and george davis kho were on thursday dismissed from the charge of disturbing the peace by throwing dead cats and other missi missiles leg at the b houpe ouse of a colored woman named emma williams williama Will inma residing in victoria alley were again arrested yesterday on a similar charge washington said his profession was that of a dog doff catcher and denied that tha t he tied had committed the offense as charged it was however proved that he had and lie was sent to jall jail for ten days davis was wag illi charged WITHOUT A LICENSE I 1 john eckstrom and swen ander andersen nn ware were arraigned on the of peddling without a license they were both swedes and unable to talk much english they said they had bought out the business from a man am named hansen n ho had a license good till june next and they were rl under the Impresa loli that his license rise was good rot for them they promised to take out a license on their own oun account and sentence was suspended till monday CHINA GAMBLER APPEALS chin chan the chinaman who ito was lined 75 on thursday for glim gambling tiling filed his appeal bond yesterday I 1 in n the sum of |