Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — MOORE CASE ARGUED BY MANY ATTORNEYS. [ARTICLE]

MOORE CASE ARGUED BY MANY ATTORNEYS.

Vincennes Man Who Took Life of Man Who Had Devastated His Home, Will Probably Go Free. The jury that has heard the trial of Menlo E. Moore, of Vincennes, will probably go out before noon today, Thursday. It is generally considered at Vincennes that the jury will bring in a verdict favorable to Moore, possibly on grounds of insanity. Several attorneys for both the state and the defense were chosen to present the argument to the jury. The argument began with Prosecuting Attorney J. Frank Culbertson at 3 c’clock Tuesday afternoon and other attorneys spoke all day Wednesday, and the argument was again taken up this morning. Several physicians testified for the defense on the sanity grounds and. all answered a hypothetical question containing some 1,100 words favorable to the defendant. Evidently he was suffering from “emotional insanity,” although physicians summoned by the state answered the same question negatively, claiming that he was entirely rational when the deed was committed. James S. Pritchett for the state scored Moore in stinging terms, calling him a “dirty little coward.” He pronounced the defendant a “coldblooded assassin,” whom no one had ever seen smile. There have been about a dozen newspaper correspondents attending the trial and from their articles there seems little doubt but that the jury .Fill acquit Moore, and the News correspondent says if they don’t it will be on account of one or two stubborn jurors. The best the state hopes for is a disagreement.