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Show FREEOOi IS GIVEN COLORADO DOCTOR JURY FAILS OF AGREEMENT AND JUDGE ORDERS DR. BLAZER BE RELEASED Prosecution Declares Cost Prohibits Another Trial; Doubts If Jury To Convict Could Be Found Anywhere Littleton, Colo. Dr. Harold Elmer Blazer was cleared of all charges in connection with the death of his 34-year-old embicile and crippled daughter, daugh-ter, Hazel, on February 24th last. The action came less than an hour after the jury, trying him on the charge of murdering the "child woman," wo-man," announced it had not reached a verdict and was discharged by Judge Samuel Johnson. Summoned hastily from his home Prosecutor Joel E. Stone apepared before be-fore the presiding judge and made a motion for dismissal of all charges and the release of Dr. Blazer, who was taken into custody immediately after the jury was- discharged. Littleton, Colo. The legal status of murder "committed for love" still remains re-mains undetermined in Colorado jurisprudence. juris-prudence. Hopelessly deadlocked, the jury selected se-lected to try Dr. Harold Elmer Blazer Bla-zer on a charge of murdering his daughter, Hazel, the 34-year-old "child woman" was discharged by Judge Johnson. "I am satisfied," Prosecuting Attorney At-torney Joel E. Stone declared. "It is unlikely that I shall bring action ac-tion against Blazer again." "We are satisfied," was the declaration declara-tion of Lewis Mow-ry, chief of defense counsel. "At least a division of opinion opin-ion indicates there were some minds on the jury who considered that the cold facts of law should be tempered with justifiable mercy." The 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 custody of Sheriff Roy Haynes to be held until un-til he furnished bail while District Attorney Stone reached a decision on what further action may be taken. The district attorney indicated, however, that it was most unlikely that Blazer would he brought to trial again. "I shall probably ask for bail of $5000, the same as he was held under previously," Stone said. "Homicide for love" was the way Blazer's act was characterized by defense during the trial. "We grant that he slew the girl, but we deny that he did it with malice aforthought or that he was sane when he did it," was the burden bur-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 else, Dr. Blazer declared in letters which he wrote to explain his act. After the slaying, the old doctor made two unsucessful attempts to end his life once with poison and the other time by slashing his throat with a razor. |
