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Show DEATH VERDICT IN CASE OF WIFE-MURDERER ROSE Culprit Says' He Is Satisfied and. Will Take No Appeal;. Ap-peal;. Jury Out Till Midnight t After deliberating seven hour and a half and casting fifteen ballots, the jury in the Frank Rose murder case brought In a verdict of guilty of murder In the first degree. The closing argument for the Stata were finished at 3:45 yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Judge Morse read his Inst rue- tlons, and the case was given to the j Jury at 4 o'clock. ' The first ballot cast stood nine for murder In the firsts degree, two for murder in the first degree with the recommendation to mercy and on for acquittal. At this point the revolver with, which Rose shot hi wife was sent for. Fourteen other ballots were taken before be-fore a verdict was reached. This decision deci-sion was reached about midnight. Rose was taken from the county jail in a cab to the courtroom. Attorneys Kinney and Christensen were present. . but District Attorney Eichnor Md not I venture out in the night air because of a severe cold. Rose was the most unconcerned un-concerned and calmest of any of the ' two-score of men In the courtroom. After the Jury had been polled and excused. Rose was asked what he thought of the verdict. He said it suited suit-ed him all right, and that it might have been worse naming life Imprisonment as the worst thing that could befall ; him. Judge Morse set the time for passing sentence upon the condemned man at Monday morning at 10 o'clock. No appeal will be .taken to the State Supreme court, as the attorneys for the defense have agreed to accept this verdict ver-dict as final. . - |