Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 6 | M' Daniel Predicts His Acquittal by Monday Night

HIS ACQUITTAL BY BYA j I MONDAY Y NIGHT A All Alleged ged Wife Murderer Is I Pleased When He Reads Judges Judge's Instructions I By Veiled Coiled Pre Frea to b The Tho im v ST. ST Dec Dee 2 With With all the tho evidence in the case against Oscar Ostar i D. D McDaniel charged with the murder of his wife the mother of his three threet children Ryan tonight prepared k t his Instructions to the Jury The Instructions instructions In- In will be given Monday when 1 the court convenes on what may be bethe bethe the last day of ot the most famous murder murder mur mur- der case ever tried in this section of ot aZ Missouri The judge will Instruct the then n jury to bring In one of ot two Verdicts whether guilty of murder In the first degree or not guilty gunty Judge Ryan touched upon the theory of second degree murder to th the extent of telling the jury that they may recommend this if they find the crime was walS committed by the defendant and Was sus not premeditated McDaniel after reading a copy of the instructions expressed himself as aswell well pleased I will be a free man Monday night he declared Str Strop and Gabbert Will pl plead ad for the tho thew w defense and Attorney General Barker and Lockwood for the state stat Arguments will occupy th the entire day and the case will go to the jur jurI jury Monday I night The general opinion in St St. Joseph is that the state has ma materially materi ma ma- teri lly strengthened its case on reb rebUttal rebuttal re re- re- re b but that it has failed to establish establish I lish a a strong enough case for conviction conviction I tl tion n of the first degree murder charge Many here believe a lung hung jury will result