| Show circumstantial EVIDENCE A SITS ON A JURY JUBY THAT TRIES AN INNOCENT MAN an aa interesting case of circumstantial evidence ending in confession comes from an ohio own between two prominent citizens a bitter feud had at one time existed but it had died out their names were thomas simpson and ad william mitchell one day lust just as a farmer who was ame to tile me road and started to turn Ms team around he be beheld a sight through the hedge bedge which riveted him to the spot he saw aw a mansho was holding a horse by the bridle bend over the form of a man lying in the road and pull a dagger from the breast of the latter it was a murder and the dead man was thomas simpson the farmer notified the authorities and james walker whom he had seen pull the dagger from them the murdered man mall was arrested he was a stranger s aud and maintained that wilan when passing along in the road he had cime upon toe dead body ot simpson and dismounted when he was tried mitchell the murderer mur derei man mans s old timp time enemy managed to be chosen upon the I 1 jury ury the irne trial was in an exciting one and when the jury jary retired everybody expected a prompt conviction but the first balltA stood eleven for conviction and one lor acquittal lively refused reluse ct to vote for conviction and blood firm against the arguments argument 5 and ex postulations of tile the others they thay reported to tile the court that they could not ot agree and were sent seat back to the jury room on their way bach one of the jurors asked mitchell bell why it i it you cannot agree with us and find a verdict of guilty 1 I 1 I knoy the man is not guilty belog being unable to agree tile ane jury was discharged the indignation ran high when it became known to tile the pop populace uince that the I 1 jury ury had disagreed and a mob at once organized to lynch walker ile he was taken irom from the jill j ill and aad a rope pro cured out as it was being placed about his hia neck mitchell appeared in the clowd and in a loud voice demaud eu ou that they hear a statement from him bim lie ile told them that they were about to hans hang an innocent man for it was he who had mur dered simpson Simp soa met in the road where the body had been found the old feud between them had been renewed and he had killed him he insisted that instead of punishing au innocent man they hang toe guilty r he e went onto on to say that he be nad had that if he dould get ou on to toe jury lie he might be able to secure walkers ers ac qui and at the aard time havu bave his own neck heck but rather than see an innocent man suffer he would give k belt up it was a dramatic scene amid tile the most profound astonishment he be was heard through and when he finished walker was released toe tae record shows that mitchell was afterward convicted convicted and executed another extraordinary case of circumstantial cum evidence occurred in a town on tae banks of the tennessee river several years ago two travelers tra velera had bad gone to a hotel and were placed for the night in the same room hom but in separate beds the next morning one of them was gone and traces ox blood were found from the hotel to the river it was believed that thac he had been murdered and thrown into the river the e ac used denied his alt guilt and est established dished xu excellent i efti lation and t the 0 tact fact abr he bad no object in murdering the roan man yet circumstances pointed so strongly and directly toward him that he was convicted of murder in the first degree and the date dale of his bis execution fixed the cours ewas published in the newspapers and was seen by the man who was supposed to have been murdered in new orleans where here cf fa was engaged in business lie he lot no time in ia noticing ing tile the authorities and securing the release of till an innocent man lie he said that thai during the night he had been attacked by bleeding at the nose and rising had gone tu to the r river i ver to bathe his tace face and wait till the bleeding had stopped while there cheru a steamer came along and going aboard uc be proceeded to new orleans Or ieans thus wc were re tile the taws ot blood irom from the hotel to the river accounted account eJ ei tor for kansas cley city times |
