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Show QUAY WINS AGAIN. A Verdict Against MM Pittsburgh Post -The Goad "til fost is Having. Prmmsmam, .Ian. 33. The jury in the famous criminal litiei suit of Senator tjuuy against the Pittsburgh vt Publishing rum. puny. Albert J. Barr, president, and. -lames .Mills, editor, brought in verdict last erasing eras-ing of guilty In tin- manner and form as indicated. in-dicated. Judge Batter, in his Charge to the jury, said that If the publication was made without with-out negligence, then the jury must aeijuit. The jury must he satisfied beyond a reasonable reasona-ble doubt that tbe application was made negligent! and maliciously, Otherwise the verdict must be for the defendants. At (1 o'clock the jury came in and asked for additional instructions. The points on which they desired information were, whether the jury would be, justified in bring, ing in a verdict of guilty if they found no malice but negligence; also, if the defendants defen-dants should be found guilty as a corporation corpora-tion or as individuals. The judge said that where negligence was found the law presumed malice, and if it was maliciousness or ue gli gence, It was the duty of the jurors to convict those defend, ants w ho were responsible for the publication. publica-tion. The jury, after haif an hour, returned with a verdict as above. The J'utt this morning comment editorially, edito-rially, aaylng that republican court, a republican re-publican prosecuting attorney and a republican repub-lican jury hate convicted a democratic journal jour-nal of libel on the leader of the republican party. The I'. .si also denounces the method of the republican District Attorney Booth in Beaver county and this trial, in securing a jury mainly of republicans. The '..( an-nounces an-nounces that this nullities the freedom of the press, and declares that it will protest agalaat it In tbe bigboit courts of the country. |