Show TONN ACQUITTED wf HA ADMITS THREE MEN tut BUT lays IT WAS IN DEFENSE leat sweets meek john bognar WAS v A t ened d at t evanston wyoming 0 in for a arte rte triple t murder t el 0 july 16 1 ar and there is considerable feeling over he verdict lot the particulars of the awful deed were published in the NEWS ata the time the three murdered men ae were he Heny nl Y aw august KeU enberger and aad T 11 e q i german the bodies bodie were found bome eom davs after was wah arrested on at suspicion 0 of being the murderer mar mur derei deret at the coron coroners M inquest the jury found hat be did the killing with felonious intent copen and he indicted for oy murder the laramy Doot boomerang erang wes gives the following account of the it the fifthe prosecution proved that the skull of two of the mon men had been crushed in ia land ana set up the theory that they had bad been murdered in ift the night wilp some helvy instrument while the other to the rescue eliad bad been shot and nd th then en the had fired a bullet antio their bodies so as to clear c lea hit aselt in case their remains were foulad to make the r stronger they proved that isa t bathing about the aw ft 1 dee d until the h tinge time of his bis arrest alth although dAgh he had had bad ample opportunity ort unity to tell the story to the people to whom he had gone but bat instead had bad said his bis partners had bad gone gond out hunting bunting and he was waiting for their return aud and did not change thit this story until arrested when put upon apon the stand acknowledged led ged having killed A the I 1 men bat insisted he had tone so only to save his bis own ow life he had bad put ut up most of the money for their outfit but when I 1 they hey got to work they wanted I 1 to freeze mm him out and on two occasions liaa lights with him finding it would be e I 1 impossibly to ab wok with them longer he prepared to leave but wanted anted to take with him his personal per ronal property ro perty over a pair of boots he got into toa to a quarrel with one of and the others came at him one ene with an axe and the other with a shovel he then stArt started edlor for the cabin on an the run closely followed by all ail three getting inside side up a rifle and shot the first onland one and as the others kept at him killed the entire party the broken skulls he accounts for by the fact that he slid their bodies down a high bank in or derder to bary them in the sands ot of t the he as they wire were sent down he bead ad first th heads were naturally crushed s ed he gave cpr dr a reason for not ce ta i this story at once nee that he feared personal violence and had intended to give full particulars as goo soon T as he got out of the country I 1 this was substantially the oase case as it was sent to the iho fury and it ws wes certainly a dark one but for ball all that the defense worked so upon the ni minds indis of the twelve men that in less than kwoi agurs they had agreed upon a verdict ot of not guilty it is only justice asbee j to sa say Y however that by affidavits produced it was shown that the accused had bad dane a most charae character rot not a but for honesty i i sobriety this fack got ally caused a doubt to exist in the minds of the jury and aad so they did not find tiiA guilty as charged in the indictment |