Show J Ji R VINDICATES fRA Slaying of ol f His Father in Defense Of His Mother Declared Justifiable FINDING COMMENDED BY ALL Stories of Or Cruelty Cruel I mid Inhumanity It of or the Mini ni Slain Sin In Mourned by IJ H H 1 Ogden March Mara the thoa th X Jury jur find that Joseph Jo eph X 1 came caine to his hla death from orn the ti ef cf 1 feet teet of a n gun SUII shot wound In the tho X 1 left temple aahl gun beIn In thu y yX X 1 hands of ot his eon lion Frank Check X 1 etts In defense of his hla hl mothers j X 1 tire life hence Justifiable In our opinIon X Xion 1 ion lon Wo We also aIo recommend his hb re y yX X 1 lease leao from custody and anti his ac 01 X 1 y y y After 15 IG minutes deliberation the tho cor coroners cn jury jUr sitting silting nt ot tho the Inquest ove tho the death of Joseph waa wa killed by his hla son Bon Frank early Wednes Wednesday day Ia morning returned the above vcr dirt about J 4 clock yesterday utter noon When tho the verdict was real read coma somo one In the tho crowded courtroom cried crl lI out Good flood find and this thin seemed to voice sentiment of or all those who sat cat and lis us listened to the unfolding of ono onu of tho the most horrible tales of domestic trou troubles troubles bles All Mi 11 through the ordeal the mother surrounded by hy her sons lions and daughters daughter Slit sat sobbing na OS If it each ench point brought out by those thoRe who gave their testimony helped to gnaw at ot the tho heart that have been heen so 50 nearly nemly sev severed severed ered these many years There wore were few fi eyes ees In tho the courtroom that were not hued with tears throughout tho the day Any There were vere a 1 score ecore of or witnesses called upon to testify to matters to facts that dealt directly with tho thu deed or leading up thereto There Thero was I no one ill III word worl spoken against young Checketts who In III supposed to havu I fired llred tho the fatal bullet hullet Nothing but kin kinu 1 words were Ivere spoken for the tho widow willow and her children who had hod suffered for many man years rather than bring disgrace upon the family name by ly coiling calling upon uron the tho police or the neighbors for tor assistance when the drunken father beat heat them the III and threatened their lives Eva ets was the first called ailed after Arter tho the noon recess nud cor corroborate tho lie testimony of those ho rio appeared before hor Sho brought out the fact tact that the father let loo e of or th the mothers throat thront when Frank pointed the revolver at nt his head an called up upon upon upon on him to desist nice also 0 that In III his drunk drunken en her father had thi he would kill It III all 1111 tho family before he foro ha li h would kill himself that even event t u more horrible deed hail had been planned In tho the mind of or tho thu dead man Alexander flaxter lax tel and Mrs Baxter sister Hister of the deceased were the next called to th stand cland lan They told tol l of what they knew concerning the disposition of ot and of tho thu brutality ho h I exhibited to tf towards ti wards his fatally family Mrs Baxter said Hall he Was it tt t all nil times mean mOlln and iu die fhe was Hns ac always of or him tnt he used usell awful language antI and struck his hll father when ho was 11 past mist 00 GO G year ear of age ago with such Buch force ns as to knock him from a buggy husy and fracture three of nf his ribs Ills His Injuries were verp of such cuch n a 1 nature that the old man mun lute hoa not been Hen hIe to todo tl do tin a d ya work cork Then the old ohl man Charles Baxter flaxter now MW having passed the eightieth milestone In life lire was called colled and In n a clear voice ol e he un toll told tol l of the faults of hl hi dead con Mn Not one good word vord did he pRk for him 11 III lie said ho cruel to tu Ida his wife wire and family and when he saw sav savI I him strike his wife on the Jaw with his hll fist list during n party nt at the tho Checkett home and ond when tho the hou was full tull of or guests he ho went vent to tho the man and remonstrated with him for tor his cruel cruet act lIeber Checketts brother of tho the lend dead man nian his hla wore were th the next witnesses cs and moro morn testimony showing that Joseph Jo Ch had hall al at always ways ays boon bon a cruel man toward his family fa mil The Tho brother paid cald that ho ha had harl been mem nail and quarrelsome over oer ho could remember Kach lach of or ortho tho tIlt witnesses testified l to tho the good character of or Mrs s and also that Frank l was wall a 1 good und obedient son Ion on Immediately after of tel tho tim of M tho the Jurys verdict young youn Checketts was from custody custod and atul permitted to accompany his heart broken moth mother er cc whoso life lite ho hi saved caved FIl nd and anil his broth brother or er and sisters to their homo home |