| Show I VERDICT NUT N 01 IL TV July J CAt At the tho aist C ot ap lip r court urt tda In the theto to tn Stevens n Instructed the thc Jury Ju J IL of n not t guilty guilt and nail lt L don the tr did di not me their 8 seats eat The verdict van received with shouts I of applause which the time court Imme Immediately j suppressed ed Judge Judg Stevens Sleen In lii ordering a verdict of ot acquittal said saM Mr Ir Foreman oNman J and During si six alx days we WO 0 have listened to a 1 painful l recital of one of oe the th saddest tragedies ever presented to toa toa a It Jury gary A beautiful girl Just budding Into womanhood wom was vas shot hot down and her brother has Ima been accused of the crime The fhe government has endeavored to prove proe that the girl Irl wan not shot by burglars It has hiss endeavored to all nil other members of the family from fro III the th affair and third to prove that the shot was wan tired by her brother broiher Robert Hobert RobertS B S Fosburgh J Time The trial has line proceeded somewhat In Inthe Inthe Inthe the form of ot an Inquest and has been tried with great Paths pains on the van part of the tho government and tho the defense There has hag been becil a Il desire to obtain proof and BO AO a O great reat deal of evidence has hus been boen Introduced ana admitted without ob oh j n which might have been excluded H I r the strict rule of or the law I I ought also alBo to say to you that It li due to the time chief of ot police who sho into has stood behind this thin prosecution that In Inthe Inthe the tIme w of oC the court he has hns tried to todo todo todo do his duty with a single eye to ascer oscer ascertaining taming the th truth Now Mr Foreman and gentlemen a n motion has been Leen made mado that this case be taken from the Jury and It U become berame my duty to say to you OU that In the opinion of ot the court tIme tho go government government government has not furnished proof soul clent to sustain a n verdict of guilty against Il the thc defendant and therefore under the direction of the court on the Indictment of ot Robert Hobert Ho rt S Fosburgh for tor killing hIs Jils sister you OU will return a 0 ver yer verdict verdict dict diet of not guilty The Time verdict was announced Hobert bert bertS S Fosburgh was wan discharged from cus eUl custody tody tally and court adjourned The crowd then rushed ru hed o n as one GlI parkin m lf nan man and It Ir Was several l minutes before l fore the court room was wan cleared One of the features of the thc brief ses session slon sion of or court this morning was waN the time an announcement to the time men of Chief of Police John Nicholson on of the tha that the time affidavit which hind had been sent Bent to him yesterday by U Chief Titus of New York had hall arrived In this morning by Ly registered letter but that tho the chief had refused to accept it and nd It would be returned to New York Chief Nicholson aid saith If the New York police want to send anything to me ale they know how to do doit doit it properly without notifying me inc by b wire sire 24 21 hours before and nna then giving It out themselves to the tIme newspapers The Time affidavit In hi question was as made In New York by IJ a n woman of the thc name of or Brav Gm It WM wai to tho effect t that lint Lewis Gray with whom she had hall lived 1111 had hall Did thI her on August 21 last lalit that he and a fellow named Milled Foy Fo did a trick at a house In and hind had shot someone As scon as os the tho jur Jury vas as dismissed the foreman called them thena together In III MA his private room and for or the first time then was a conference ns no to what the Jurors believed Without exception they declared that list they y would have re returned reo turned a n verdict of not guilty within fifteen minutes even had hAil they the not been Instructed by IJ the court They acknowledged ledged hedged they would have paid haul no flO atten attention than tion to time the exhibits In the th case While Judge Stevens Steven was wan speaking 1 to the Jury Jut the members of the time Fosburgh family realizing what his remarks remark meant to them burst Into tears while the time defendant sat with bulled head hend the tears coursing down his hili cheeks checks The Tho wire wife of the defendant was WIB the only I member of or the family not In the court courtroom courtroom room and It was wan said that she he remained at the lintel hotel because of Illness From the tho courtroom young oun Fosburgh went directly to the thc Wendell house Intone and passed quickly to his hlA wite room She was ns ill III In bed boo but the time news fleas of her hus bus husbands bands acquittal to so 0 strengthened her that sIte she arose and OntI throwing her arms arm about his neck exclaimed Thank God thank nodi Godi Mr Ir Fosburgh spent pome some time with his wife amid then went to the tIme lobby of the thc hotel lintel where for on an hour he ho re received the expressions of good will of Ills his friends When hen District Attorney Hammond who ulmo lies has been the prosecuting pro officer In Iii Inthe the thc trial was Willi asked to make a 1 state statement statement ment he said sold that he ho thought It would be lie h Improper for him hini to pay n anything nt at this time except cx pt fro trop pi the time evidence the court justified In taking time the case calle from time the Jury He lie however that time the chief of police was fully tully warranted In making the investigation that he tie did |
