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Show THE MORTENSEN TRIAL A very tedious and expensive trial was ended yiu idaj In a erdlet of murder In vtV that degree Tho Jmy, no doubt, ran hi 1 this conclusion con-nrl. con-nrl. ntlouslj hut iheio Is one portion of the evldfl r which. If tho Jurvineii acted on lt(i. come lo tho conclusion the) did, ou):hi lo und will vitiate their verdict. We liter to the testimony of Juiiks hharr wliere he avvore that the guilt of them etisid hnd been revealed to him by'tlie all Knowing Cod It Is !i n king th.it such testlnvouy should hnve liecn relved we were astonished thit tho Juilrc did not order It stricken out when 'l? was given, but said nothing noth-ing because we thought perhnva that Ju Ige Morse hud teiciveil the matter fu hH chSige, and that he would tb r In dlYSt the Jurrus tn dlaregnid it 'J hi quArtloii Ik one thnt dnea not admit ot mu u piuy or argument; tor If II is rnmjjxunt for n man A sincere, i muit arujjnnist man noted main by. bis Imprestl'i'S and religious beliefs. I to glvo blJJ tiiHImony that God Al- mlklily hajVdu'vv n ddm na a veritable id absolute truth that the atmsed i 'iiimitteatlu crime of which, he Manila i hartf I ami that this can go to ihe Jury as evidence, then no other I teilmoiiyIs i "did, the Jury In fact, ih not needed In ause the voice of Qod rinleii njlje im supcinunus, and the up re i out Int e' u londemnatlon ami ix.milon, i H that la left for the court andjtl law The only escape funi tlilsK'i Hon Is for the Jury to llingatdJ tmtlmony, and thus Hum odium upon the witness. The vlult nf th3'"r' to tho scene of the iilhu wltil 'I" def' ndant's pi oeonee In ilso v3rg5' knanl. 11 Is Inivituble. un bi lhajjj imatunccs ot tlda caao, tl ,1 iho ojiinya for the defendant will movajfy new tilul, for nppeal, i I failing' J II else, f a writ of hi ii to the -iiiiiiinie i et of tho ' . Ih i Is S I r r al nre nf I his nisi i I has Ju I ton i li is ' lit, TI i I mi i i n niedliil I i I i i igenul .. . ailed f' . in. i to cr . . i i. li i i tin i I i l' iilin I'd fcr tho m -it pint that eiK goo I and filr n Jurv could have ben obuilned the finrt I few dnyA aH was had at the last after nearly four weeks nf labor The trial has been a prolonged and Imi oitnnt one and It Is to bo regrettod that there were dementi In It which will almost certainly nullify the work, ind though the rjsult will most likely he the same eventually, the malteis referred re-ferred to will irohably ie.iiIro the ease to bo all Ktm- over eguln. |