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Show PRISONER CALM WHEN FATE WAS READ Salt Lake City, May 0. "Murder in the first degree with no recommendations recom-mendations for mercy." This was the vordlct of the Jury In the case of Howard De Weese, charged with the murder of his wlfo. The Jury started consideration of tho evidence of the case following tho Instructions from Judge J. L. Brown at 6:10 o'clock Monday night and two hours later the verdict was agreed upon. Cool and smiling, with nevor so much as a flicker of emotion crossing his inscrutable face, De Weese calmly calm-ly listened to the vedlct. Harry Fisher, tho former husband of the woman De Woeso was found guilty of murdering, sat among the spectators spec-tators tensely waiting for the verdict on the man who brought so much sorrow upon himself and his family. After the case had beon dollvercd to the jury by Judge Brown, the jury was taken to dinner. At 7:30 the Jury was confined to tho Jury room to deliberate on tho case. It required but one ballot to find Do Weese guilty of one of tho most atrocious crimes In the annals of Salt Lako's history. Jokes With Attorneys. It was 8:50 before Do Weese was brought Into the courtroom. Ho entered en-tered smilingly and Joked with his attornoys. When the verdict was delivered de-livered by S. B. Westorfleld, foro-man foro-man of the jury, ho listened smilingly smiling-ly for tho words that should seal his fate. Aa tho verdict was read, he turned still smiling, to his attorneys and simply said, "They do not know." In their verdict the jury found Do Weese guilt of murder In tho first degree without a recommendation for mercy. In Utah murder in the first degree without a recommendation means the choice between the goll-owb goll-owb and the rifle. Do Weese will be sentenced by Judge Brown on Tuesday, Tues-day, May 15, at 10 o'clock. Crowds pack Courtroom. The greatest cr6wds that ever attended at-tended a murder trial In Utah packed tho courtroom of Judge J. Louis Brown and flllod the corridors of tho City and County building. Many stood In tho halls during tho entire morning session hoping to obtain admittance ad-mittance to the courtroom and hear the eloquent arguments of both at torneys pleading for tho conviction and acquittal of De Weese. Many curious women waited all day to catch a glimpse of tho noted prisoner. Each time tho door of tho courtroom opened to admit an officer of the court women sought to force admittance admit-tance to the courtroom. It requlrod two guards at tho doors to keep tho crowd from trying to force an admittance. admit-tance. Tho crowds, although large In number, were no Inconvenience to the court. Women and girls, as usual, usu-al, formed tho greater part of the spoctatorB and flocked to the courtroom court-room to bestow unsought for sympathy sym-pathy and pity upon the prisoner. Tho Jurrors who found Do Weess guilty of tho murder of his wlfo were NophI L. Morris, business man; Franklin B. Piatt, minister; Levi Hardcastle. Janitor; George E. Grant. farmer; ;W. H. Draper, machinist Ebenezor Chllds, rotlrcd business man; T. H. Dugan, foreman; Joseph Falrbourno, sanitary engineer; William Wil-liam Dyer, farmer; Harry Anderson, contractor, and John Cardwell, a watchman. Yesterday's sessions of tho trial wero marked by Impassioned arguments argu-ments of attornoys for Do Wceso pleading for his life and those of tho stato demanding that the man pay the oxtromo penalty for tho murder of his wlfo last Soptomber. All during tho trial Do Wceso sat calmly In hU chair beside his attornoys and endured en-dured thd strain unflinchingly, although al-though the stato amassed evidence that was Impossible to refute. |