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Show DEWEY (S SENTENCED TO PKfflFH LIFE Murderer or Folice Sergeant Johnston Hears Hi Doom Pronounced. MAKES A PLEA TO COURT Insists That He Is Innocent, and I hat His Trial Was Unfair. Uiri; his wife sittmc nenr him, weeping weep-ing pitifully Elmer L. Dewey, convict-ed convict-ed of minder in the first degree for the killing o T'obi-e Bergeanl .toin Henry Johnston, Saturday morning swore before be-fore God that be was inno. cnt of the rime charged agntnei him. Tbe motion for a new trial was overruled b.l .T1;:, P, 0. Loot" bnii roc. . ut (he criminal division di-vision of the Third Diatricl court, and .n Bccordanca with the recommendation of t'n" jury which found Dewey guilty of murder, the court sentonced him to hard labor for life in rho state prieoB The rase, will be appealed. Asked if he bad any reason to give wht sentence should not bo pnjsci upon up-on him, Dewny declared that he was innocent of the offense charged against him and bad not been givcu a fair and impartial trial. ( am not guilt', so help me God, I am not.' exclaimed the convicted man. "I didn't know that Johnston entered the room, and did not Know that lie was shot until afterward I certainh have not had a fair and impartial im-partial trial. Thar, is all I can say." Sentence Pronounced. The court explained that the jury, as I the sole judges of fact. had found Dewey guilty, and had recommended mercv, which left it diBCrotionarv si1h the court :ts to whether or not the sen tence should be death or life imprisonment. impris-onment. The court in passing sentence declared that it had no reluctance whatever jn following the jury's recommendation. rec-ommendation. Judge Loofbourow then; pronounced the sentence. Mrs. Pewej j whose conduct, wjjs alleged to have re-1 suited ni the tragedy, sat just behind her husband weeping, and when the I sentence was passed upon Dewey she showed renewed emotion 'Die court granted the defendant 30 d.L' ;' additional addi-tional time, mating a total of 60 days, taken totrother with the ") das allowed bv the inw, to prepare Dd tile the bill of exceptions on appeal. Long Argument Heard. Staple'. Price, attorney for Dewey, arsuel I'or a new trial for nearly three hours and a half. One of the principal princi-pal points he made outside of leai technicalities was that, the jury was prejudiced against the defendant, pw niir to the publication in local newspapers news-papers of articles against crime and murderers. He declared that the jurv. saturated with public sentiment, could not and did not jive Dewey a fair trial. lie declared thai Dewey was the i icthn of "unfortunate cj rcumstauces. ' Unfair Trial Alleged. ITelen Dees, a nurse at St Mark's hospital, was placed on tbe stand in an effort to brintr out newlv discovered evidence. It was contended by the defense de-fense thai she. in a conversation with her sister, who is the superintendent of the hospital, bad declare. I that r cennr Johnston, pr.or to h's death, had swid that Dewey did not. intend to .shoot him. she, however, could not remember remem-ber haiut: made such a statement when placed on the witness stand, and denied de-nied thai she had ever said that h r admiration for the dead officer would not permit her to .-av anything that would hurt the case. Attorney Price argued that the jury had Dot taken into consideration the testimony in the case. He declared that the verdict proved that the defense's de-fense's testimony bad been ignored. He presented innumerable authorities in support of his contentions. |