| Show FREE M IS G COL COlO RAno DOCTO A JURY FAILS OF AGREEMENT AND JUDGE ORDERS DR BLAZER BE RELEASED Prosecution Declares Cost COlt Prohibits Another Trial Doubts Doubt If Jury To Convict Could Be Found Anywhere Littleton Colo Dr Harold Elmer Blazer was cle cleared red of all charges In connection with the death of his 34 year old and crippled daughter daugh ter Hazel on February last The action came less leu than an hour after the jury trying him on the charge of murdering the child woman wo woo wooman man announced it It had not reached a verdict and was discharged by Judge Samuel Samu l Johnson Summoned hastily from his home Prosecutor Joel E. E Stone Stono before before be be- fore the presiding judge and made a motion for dismissal of all charges and the release Blazer who was taken taken Into custody immediately after the tho jury was discharged Littleton Colo The The legal status of murder committed for love still remains re re- mains undetermined in Colorado juris prudence Hopelessly deadlocked the Jury selected selected se se- to try Dr Harold Elmer Blazer Bla Dla zer on a charge of murdering his daughter Hazel the year old child woman was dl discharged charged by Judge JohnsonI Johnson I am satisfied Prosecuting Attorney At torney Joel E. E Stone declared It Is unlikely that I 1 shall bring action ac tion t Blazer again We are satisfied was the tho declaration declaration declara declara- tion of Lewis Mowry chief of defense counsel ouri el At least a division of opinion lon ion Indicates tes there were some minds on on the tho jury who considered that the cold facts of law should be tempered temper d with justifiable mercy Tl The e j jurors refused to intimate how they stood in their balloting when they filed out of the courtroom following their discharge Dr Blazer was taken Into custod custody of Sheriff Roy Haynes to beheld until un til UI he furnished ball while while Dl District Attorney Stone reached a decision on what further action may be taken The district attorney indicated d however that it was was most unlikely that Blazer would be brought to trial again I shall probably ask for ball of the tho same sarno as he was held under previously Stono said Homicide for love was the way Blazers Blazer's act was characterized by defense during the trial We grant that he slew lew the girl but we deny leny that he did It with malice or that he was sane when he did it was the hurden burden bur hur- den of the defense The slaying was prompted by the fear that he would be taken and that Hazel would become a burden on someone el else e Dr Blazer declared in letters which h he wrote to explain his act After the slaying the old doctor made mad two un attempts attempts' to end his life lite once with poison polson and theother the theother other time by sla slashing his throat with witha a razor |
