| Show TIIK lUKTCimiT VERDICT A i a matter of cold law If Luetgert wn guilty nt all of the murder ot his wife ns the jury decided that he was he must have committed murder In the first degree And therefore deserves to pay the penalty with his life otherwise he ought to have teen acquitted Ho argue a gloat mon papers lint the Chicago TlmesIteral defends the action ac-tion ot the jury In finding him gulltv and nt the same time modifying his punishment to life Imprisonment It explains that while the jUlY were unanimous on the first ballot In decidIng decid-ing that he was guilty one ot their number refused to vote for the death penalty In view of the fact that the conviction was based entirely upon clr cumtnllol evidence And the corpus deficit had not been clearly demonstrated demon-strated It therefore became a question ques-tion ot disagreement or compromise often Imprisonment for life Replying to a criticism of the jury by the Louisville Pont the TimesHerald Pays There Is nothing In the Luctgert verdict In strengthen the trial law onUmenl Un the contrary It Hry accurately voleem the popular sentiment of this community as entirely just when the doubts surrounding tho mysterious mys-terious dlsappcnrinia ot the missing I Imn are taken Into consideration I There Is I a growing sentiment In favor fa-vor of mitigating the death penalty when conviction Is had upon purely circumstantial evidence l and especially In cases In which the death of the person per-son alleged to have Iell murdered Is I not absolutely proven But the quell lion recurs on two points What is I clrcumlnnll1 evidence And when in I the death of tile alleged victim absolutely abso-lutely proven Jurists and legislator have not jet ben Able to answer suet queries In any way that Is I mote Ball facloij thin the old way |
