Show TOM TO VANCE IS fOUND TY Of THE rHE MURDER Of HIS After Eighty Minutes' Minutes Deliberation Jury Convicts Him of Murder in First Degree DEATH PENALTY WILL ILL FOLLOW FOLO Vance hanged himself This w was s the startling statement made by Lafayette Hanchett Han Han- chett cliett foreman of the jury immediately after the twelve men brought m n their verdict S Saturday afternoon before Judge G. G Thomas Armstrong finding Vance guilty of murder murder mur mur- der del in the thc first d degree gre for the time killing of his wife Mary f ary Vance V December S 8 1907 The verdict was reached after just 80 minutes of deliberation Replete as has been this murder trial with sensations there was nothing which had cr created ate d such an aim impression as this verdict of the jury The Thc court room was crowded with spectators Spectators spec spec- t tors when th the verdict of the time jury was handed banded to Jud Judge e Armstrong and there was open-eyed open wonder on all sides when murder in the tile first dc degree re was found against the thc prisoner prisoner prison prison- er carrying with it the death penalty for there was no recommendation I for clemency accompanying it I It would b be safe af to sa say that there I Iwas was not a man In the court room who expected the death d-ath penalty would I be found round by tho the Jury There was vas as no questioning the statement that Vance I had dama damaged ed his own ca case casc e. e but the general belief belle was ViaS that the verdict would l be e assault with Intent to commit commit com corn mit murder Thomas Vance sitting alone In the court room staring blankly Into pace as the Jurors filed past him to toward toward to- to ward ard the Jury box dropped his head when whon th the ver verdict was rend read b by Clerk Tanner His body bo shook with emotion emotion emotion emo emo- tion and antl there were tears In his eyes eres as ho t his head and arid looked up at the Jurors juroN Then he sat nt at up I straight ht and there ther was Mas no sign of emotion emotion- in the racked prison bod body Jpy of or Vance Its pretty tough tough tough-that's that's all aJl ll I can cansay cansay say was as Vances Vance's reply to ton a ar query quer is as I to his hi f feelings Hn as a result J of th the death penalty A i ic c t O- O wa orn caud d In hi ta c Mr s' s 1 I ri fi nn o l tier tto ranch atieh et em tb 1 aP l c t s 's told toll Urn ilar the th Jury ry pad md sworn worn away a aw ar arlio ho the life of Ot if n J Innocent mun n 01 anything ny but that menI men she hc sobbed I know as sure lure lureas as I know an anything that thai Thomas Vance Vanco Is ns us Innocent nt as a a. child of or putting pol poison polon on In tho water to kill kin his wife It may have have- come there thero by some Occident but Tom Torn ne never ner r did hl ItHe It He Hc beat his wife and should have I been punished f foi fol j It but wh why dl did you Ou I take hla hie life ute Mr Mi 11 Hanchett told her that she had hadnot I Inot not heard hear the testimony and therefore I she sho did not kno know the thu facts In the case case- as di did the tIre Jurors who had sat gat through 1 the testimony for forten ten da days giving 1 Tom Vance an Impartial hearing And Am then Mr fr Hanchett sal said Vance hanged himself m my good woman It was not our fault From hI his own statements statement on the stand he showed that he had murder cr In his heart We e were sworn s to do our duty uty under the law and anel we have proven true to the oath which we vc took Statement by Juror i Hanchett Later in a statement Mr 11 Hanchett summed up the vital evidence In the case as ns follows Up to the time Thomas Vance went upon the tIme stand I felt certain In m my mind that he hc was guilty of or the crime I as char charged ed but did not feel eel that conviction conviction con con- of murder In the first degree decree was wat the just penalty But when he came upon the stand an nail and testified to some of tho the facts my mind was made up That man mart Is guilty of taking the tho life Ure of his wife and there I la Is no punishment pun pun- severe se enough for his poll pen alty When the th defense had this man on the stand wh why hy didn't the they go goo Into the matter fully As Mr Ir Loofbourow said th they opened the door only so foO I wide and would not let the tire state tate go o behind and see yee ee what Ja lay hi hidden I there But nut Vance testified himself I that he had looked Int Into the room I where his wife wire la lay utter after the beating i looked In III with his right arm ann outstretched out out- stretched as stretched as he showed us 80 so clearly las last t It was right at that time that he dropped the pulverized d tablet of of ot mercury mercur Into his wife's I drinking water causing hor her death deat It was claimed by tho the defense that thata I a a. certain poison was used b by Mrs Vance to prevent childbirth but it Il was shown b by their thell own witness witnel's Dr Monohan and the undertakers that Continued tJ on In c Three |