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Show Shoplifter Makes Confession,, hut It, Conies Too Late to Benetit Him. GRAND LARCENY VERDICT OF JURY IX THE CASE Ola Hayden. Pretty Actress, j Must Stand Trial on the Same Charge. To shield his "pal," a woman, and, if possible, holp himself out, Jack Davis, on trial in Judge Lewis's division di-vision of the district court for the larceny lar-ceny of nino articles of dress goods from tho Colin department store on South Main street, November 7 last, wont on tho witness stand Thursday afternoon and mado a full, but not an nccurato, confession. Davis's evident intention was to show that his offenso did not constitute grand larceny and to roduco it to petit larceny to evade a state prison sentence sen-tence aud lo sliiold. if not absolutely absolvo, his alleged accomplice, Miss Ola Hayden, from all liability, but in tho former ho was decidedly unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. The jury deliberated only about five or ton minutes before returning a verdict of guilty of grand larecuy. Davis's confession, which camo as a thunderbolt, closely followed the stato 's resting its case. The defendant's ul-toruey ul-toruey moved that tho court instruct tho jury to return a verdict of not guilty, und this motion, of course, was promptly overruled. Davis and his attorney at-torney then hold a tcn-minuto private conference, following which. Davis took tho stand and confessed. Charge Against Davis. Davis was charged with stealing all tho nino articles, Saturday, November 7 last, but ho testified fhal stole a skirt and a waist ;, cding Tuesday, a skirt ami Thurs day, a skirt and a :n Saturday afternoon, and a waist and two skirts baturday night. Miss Havden, ho testified, tes-tified, was with him, but ho stronuous-lv stronuous-lv denied that she know anything of his thefts. Ho concealed tho articles underneath his coat, ho said, aud ho showed how ho hid them. JThefr. of articles undor tho value of $50 doos not constituto grand larccnj, and Davis's apparent ottort in testifying testify-ing that ho mado four trips to the storo was to reduce tho value of tho goods stolen at any ono timo to less than $50 aud thus cvado a sentence for grand larceny. Tho complaint charged that the nine articles wore all stolen at ono time. Saturday, November 7, and the jury, judging from its verdict, behoved be-hoved that Davis was lying when ho said he stolo tho articles at four different dif-ferent times. It took about- leu minutes min-utes to fix the value of tho articles stolon at more than $50 and find Davis guilty of grand larceny, for which ho will have to servo a prison sentence instead in-stead of a county .-jail sentence. The passing of sentonco was sot for March 22. Miss Ilaydcn, similarly 1 charged, will bo placod on trial April 2. |