Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — VERDICT IS A COMPROMISE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VERDICT IS A COMPROMISE

Jury Declares Mrs. Gunness Dead— Plans of the Defense. The verdict is a compromise, as far as can be learned. Several members of the jury were for murder in the first degree, but none was for the

death penalty. Two jurymen. Charles P. Nelson and Charles Travis, it to said, and two jurymen who opposed a life sentence. All the members of the jury made the following signed statement: “We, Continued on Page Five.

[Drawing of Mrs. Belle Gunness]

MRS. BELLE GUNNESS.