| Show THREE TO HANG so says courthouse cumor in the trial TO TO imprisonment another report says alie probabilities are that the jury will disagree eleven standing for conviction and one for acquittal special to the ENQUIRE CHICAGO dec 14 on the ing of court yesterday afternoon judge longenecker continued his reply to forresta For rests argument and then made a rapid running sketch of the evidence of the leading witnesses and the circumstances under which it was given by way of reply to forresta For rests charge that there was a conspiracy tp convict the defendants in closing he said Ee member that we are here insisting that this evidence was so overwhelming that you as honest men under your oatta cannot resist this volume of proof that must convince you as sensible men beyond a reasonable doubt that all five of these men are guilty of this crime judge mcconnell then delivered his charge to the jury saying in part the manner or cause of death which is alleged in the indictment is an essential element of the charge against the defendants and the law requires the prosecution to establish that averment to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt as it is laid in the indictment before conviction can lawfully be had but whether or not the manner or cause of death was as laid in the indictment it may bej established by evid acu just as any other facts essential 16 conviction may be circumstantial evidence in criminal cases is proof of such facts and circumstances connected with or surrounding the commission of the crime charged as tends to show the guilt or innocence of the parties charged and if these facts and circumstances are sufficient to satisfy the jury of the guilt of the defendants beyond a reasonable doubt then such evidence is sufficient to authorize the jury in finding defendants guilty evidence in proof of a conspiracy will generally in the nature of the case be circumstantial though a common design is the essence of the charge it is not necessary to prove that the defendants come together or actually agreed to have that design and to pursue it by common means if the jury believe from the evidence beyond a responsible doubt acting in the light of the entire charge of the court that the defendants now on trial or some of them conspired together or together with others who were to the grand jurors unknown to kill and murder patrick henry cronin and that one or more of alie conspirators in pursuance and furtherance of such conspiracy did kill ana murder said cronin in the manner and boim charged then any or all of the defendants if any who so conspired are in law guilty of such murder although they may not have actually killed said cronin or been present at the time or place of killing you ought not and cannot legally convict defendants or either of them upon mere doctrine of of change and probability although you may believe it is highly probable and very likely that the defendants are guilty and even that is is far more likely and probable that they are guilty than that they are innocent yet no amount of suspicion will warrant you in finding a verdict of guilty against defendants or any of them alie bailiffs who were to have charge of the jury were then sworn to faithfully discharge their duty and the juryman jurymen were to their room after considerable discussion between counsels all of the articles offered in evidence except croninn Cr onins clothes were taken to the jury room for inspection at p m the court adjourned until 8 at the latter hour a large crowd was in waiting but the jury was not ready and judge mcconnell announced that he would return again at 10 to see if the jury had any communication muni cation to make at 11 no word having been received from the jury judge mcconnell announced that court would adjourn until 10 this morning to give the burrors further time for deliberation CHICAGO dec 14 the jury in the cronin case are still out judge mcconnell has left the bench and adjourned court till 2 p in it is on the street in the neighborhood of the court that the jury have agreed as to all the defendants except beggs but what verdict it is not even intimated at 1 rumor direct from the courtroom baya burke coughlin hlin are to hang kunze is to have five years and beggs three the rumor was suase 1 quentin as there ia a probability that the jury will disagree it is generally understood that the jury stands 11 for conviction anil one for acquittal this janot official BETTING ON till SALT LAKE ELECTION special to alio ENQUIRER SALT LAKE dec 14 sale of city lots concluded aliis morning eighty were disposed of the lowest being and the highest 1000 total realized was grand total from all the sales this enables the city to nearly if not quite relieve itself of debt aud present council will be able to hand the city government over to their sue censors in february good records and clean hands the of interest is manifested in mandamus UK proceedings on monday axt ni llie district court every depends on them and the action of the supreme court in the matter of alie idaho test oath it is friia mat james yesterday offered to bet that the liberals would carry the election in february by 1000 majority if the action referred to hy the courts shall be favorable to alie peoples party several men are willing to take him op and increase the amount in that event some few express their willingness to bet that the peopled People 8 party A ill win interest in the great contest increases day by day as the time shortens it is semi officially announced that the liberals intended parading on tho gaime night as alie peoples party it is hop edby the elements that this intention will be reconsidered TOUCHING SCENE IN special to the ENQUIRER aid dc IG charles goodman the politician who played such a prominent part in the recent campaign waa the central figure in a dramatic scene yesterday in tho cobit ol 01 common pleas he was defendant in a habeas corpus case which was brought by mrs W A graham to take from him a child whom he had adopted two years ago to the astonishment of everybody goodman cried like a baby as he stood upon the witness stand and begged to be allowed to retain the boy whom he had learned to love and whom he had tried hard to bring ap a christian his frame shook emotion and the tears rolled down his cheeks ag he said taught the boy his prayers which he said every night before going to bed I 1 wished to bring him up a christian I 1 also taught him to fear god and never to fight because iny own experience in that line had been a sad one I 1 went to sunday school when I 1 was a boy and if I 1 had hollowed loll owed what I 1 learned there I 1 would have been a better man goodman was awarded the child AN INNOCENT MAN PUNISHED special to the WHEELING W va dec 16 A sensa tion his been caused throughout the panhandle pan handle counties of west virginia and in eastern ohio and western penn sylvannia by the bringing to light a confession which bears every impress of truth and which makes it clear that van B bak er now serving y life term in the penitentiary for the murder of his wife and mother in law is in reality innocent of the crime the double murder was in every respect the moat atrocious crime ever committed in this portion of the country was perpetuated on the eve of may y at the little village of holidays cave on the lower edge of hancock couney thi state the two women were beaten to death by an iron car bolt their brains being knocked out with successive blows the husband had left home on the afternoon of the ath ostensibly to visit his father in washington conaty pa and the crime vs not discovered until his return the following day he was accused arrested tried and convicted A new trial and change of venue to brooks county resulted in a second conviction his case was appealed tc alie supreme court of the state and there the verdict of the lower court was affirmed and defendant sentenced for live papers are now being prepared to carry the case to the supreme court of the united states yow comes a confession signed alan no one who is supposed to be ons admitting that he and two companions committed the crime the methods pursued being minutely detailed A JEALOUS HUSBANDS special to the 1 SAN ANTONIO tex dec ag yesterday jose maria was murdered in cold blood by juan decindis at alie gomez ranchi fourteen miles east of this city on the creek it appears that belmonto Vel monto and were brought up together and being of similar tastes they both fell in love with dolores juaita young dolores favored Keci nuis and some months ago he followed h er 10 the altar of the little mission near by after the wedding whether she found marriage a failure or not she encouraged the visits of her old lover the two men often met and while the husband frequently spoke to the other of his attentions tent ions to liis wife he never gave any evidence eliat he doubted iho honesty either of his wife or his friend yesterday alie two men met at the well at the bomer ranch and talked for some time upon various subjects they laughed and joked happily together until to drink when ho heard Ee cindia say I 1 am going to kill you he looked up quickly and as lie did so Rc cindia stabbed him in the left side near the heart with a long dirk the wounded man writhed upon the ground the assassin spurned him with his foot and laughed as he said maybe dolores will love you now better than she does me he then leisurely walked away and been seen since was found some time later in an almost insensible condition and was carried to his house where he died some sis or seven hours afterward before Velna onte died a justice of the peace was summoned the ante mortem statement from which the facts given above are gleaned search is being made for ke bendis tut he is by this time probably across the border dolores is nearly crazed at the death of her lover and the loss of her husband and last night ati tempted to commit suicide by jumping into 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