| Show I 1 A DISGRACE TO STATE OF juggling and slight of hand perform ance by workman jury gives light punishment to cold blooded murderer after an all all night session last saturday night tile the jury in the care cafe of gib workman tiled for at cleber found a verdict of murder in the alist degree with mith recommend allons for mere mem A verdict of that kind means that tile the extreme penalty will be a life sentence in the penitentiary had the tha ie commendation not been made for mercy the sentence would mould have been death by hanging or shooting the condemned man to take his choice At attorn s hatch and wilson for Us tl defense made a motion for a now new trial but it has not yet been learned whether the motion was granted gi anted in case the motion mas w as refused the court passed sentence last monday the bilal consumed the best part of weeks beginning august 9 on the following saturday Satu iday night eleven clelen jurors had been accepted and tho the twelfth was accepted on monday morning the defense attempted to prove proe that Work workman maa was insane at tho time lie he murdered james griffin last november one specialist gave it as ills his opinion that workman could have hale been insano insane at the time LATER the express has beon been un able to tn let et anything further than the above lioni honi heber until J A wilson oile odthe of the attorneys for the defense ai rived tonight on the stage and leont ahat pent rent leman we me soc secured aired the LIM ihu falts facts ten tell of the jur mete for conviction of murder in the first degroe and two wre were for acquittal after arguing all light they finally reached an agree mont ment which certainly is no credit to that body of men suppo supposed oed to bo be intelligent tell igent the ten tell for conviction off tred ered to the two to for acquittal that it they would mould como come in ili and aaice for convIct conviction IGn for duider in the first de broe they the ten would agree to recommend mercy and at the end of five file or six years they would also sign a petition for workmans Work mans pardon judge booth immediately set aside the verdict and on motion of mr hatch granted d a new ne trial then mr hatch and the prosecuting attorney mr cluff got together and made a corn com promise hatch agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter but cluff u wanted anted duider in the second degree the maximum for manslaughter is ten years and the minimum for murder in the second degree 13 ten years hatch agreed to plead guilty to mur der in the second degree providing ne ae could the minimum sentence and that was finally decided upon |
