Show MAY WHITE ACQUITTED HOW CRIME IS 18 PUNISHED BY LIBERAL JURYMEN the trial of mrs may white a woman who has been in the police court several times and who is a notorious prostitute was held in the third district court Coart yesterday vest erday afternoon on the charge of adultery mr varian prosecuted and mr gee defended the follower follo g jury were to try the case samuel bringhurst jr art em ery ward frank A greenwald sol crown W A rhodes J W campbell samuel H gordon A hanauer F h H nelden john erickson and J M harvey all ALI of these with the exception of mr v isto are aon Z the case was opened by the calling f julge dusenberry who testified to having married the defendant wao be was then known as may jensena Jen seno joseph M white in september latt officers cerp J pickett J W bun ban ad 0 to having arrested the ta the occasion when the was in the room with frank engler in the city hotel engler managed to escape but bat the woman who also ran outside wils was captured she being in ID an almost nude condition deputy marshal mars hal pratt testified that the defend defendant an it had admitted to him h hot guilt gull tout on abe be occasion named chobad she hac told hm him t that hat the case against her was too clear she was guilty and would plead Accord accordingly however after seeing mr gee I 1 she changed chang edher her mind the jury were addressed by meson varian Varl anand and gee for ane pro prosecution cation and defense respectively mr gee reminded the he jury ury of mr carians Va rians action in refusing to prosecute thi the cases of lewdness which were uncovered by the police and which created such a stir in this city about 18 months ago mr varian said that was with it a differ ent class of people to the defendant k the court gave its charge to the I 1 jury ury in a clear concise manver manner and a verdict of guilty was confidently expected by those who were not acqua acquainted inte with the workings of the system muce the i adoption of recent ultra judicial methods the jury retired to their room and after arr an absence of thirty minutes Kiin ules returned with a verdict of not guilty guilt the clerk smiled at he read it wh while the judge looked astounded for faramo a mo went ment then men shook his head it was afterwards learned that on the first ballot the th vote stood eleven to one for acquittal the lone juror who voted in accord with the facts in the case was mr bringhurst the others declared d that they would never convict and mr bringhurst not caring to hold hola out against a woman though he be had bad no doubt as to her gulk guilt finally changed his vote the verdict to is only one more in the long list of examples that show what a parcels farce is made of jarv trials under the present regime in juar utah t tab ode of the j jurors in speaking of the case afterwards stated that it would not do to convict such women as the defendant giving as a reason their necessity to men of his bis ilk |