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Show EPPER80N FIGURED QUEERLY ON EVIDENCE 8AYS JURY FOREMAN Could Not Grasp Many Points; Jail Break Did Not Afreet Verdict Salt Lake City, May 28. Glen Miller, one of the eleven Jurymen who were In favor of rendering a verdict of murder In the first degree against Caleb A. Iniow, slayer ot Eddie White, but who agreed to compromise on a second degTee murder verdict owing to the attitude of the one Juror Jur-or who was in favor of acquittal made tho statement today that In his opinion opin-ion as well as in that of his ten colleagues col-leagues thero is something lacking in tho brain of the twelfth Juror, C..K. Epperson. Mr. Miller further said that It was the opinion of the Jurors who stood for conviction from the first that out of 10,000 men they probably could not have found one oener man who would havo Interpreted the evidence evi-dence produced as did Mr. Epperson. Prom the moment the case went to the Jury it was known by the eleven that Epperson would not agree to what was in their minds a clear case of murder in the first degree, their reason for holding out as long as they did being not through any effort on the part of Mr. Epperson to bring them to his way ot thinking, but to try to convince him that he was looking look-ing at the testimony introduced in the wrong light through his ignorance or lack of proper reasoning faculties. According to Mr. Miller's statement the dissenting Juror claimed that the testimony Introduced regarding the time of the occurrence of the tragedy convinced him that thero was a great element of doubt as to whether In-low In-low committed tho .crime. When this point wob mentioned it was decided to make a test regarding time, with tho result that each ono ot the Jury deposited a slip ot paper In a hat, first writing what length ot time had been consumed by them in tho Jury room up to tho time of depositing the slip. Tho result was that each ono had a decidedly different opinion, ono saying say-ing forty minutes, another 120 minutes, min-utes, the actual tlmo consumed having hav-ing been seventy-five minutes. This little test had no effect whatever on the man who had already mado up his diseased mind, said Mr. Miller. When asked regarding the possible effect the attempted escape from tho Jail had on tho minds ot tho jurymen I ,Mr. Miller said that their Ideas of . Inlow's guilt wero not in the leaBt strengthened by tho fact ot his hav I ing made the attempt, and that they ' stood tor conviction on the evldenco alone. He says that the eleven men as ono felt that tho public would not be satisfied with a verdict of murder In tho second degree, but that It would be much better to put Inlow, whom he termed a vicious beast, in a position where ho would bo most likely to get a life sentence, further saying that It a compromise had not been reached In the minds of those who were for the death penalty. Mr. Epperson would not havo been able to colncldo with them were they to argue with him for 100 years. |