Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — BOMB WOMAN GUILTY [ARTICLE]

BOMB WOMAN GUILTY

Mrs. Martin Convicted by Jury at Oakland, Cal. After deliberating over nine houre at Oakland, Cal., the jury in the cast of Mrs. Isabella Martin, charged with having dynamited the home of. Superior Judge Ogden, returned a verdict of guilty, recommending the defendant to the extreme mercy of the court.

In the first trial, at which testimony was given that the woman plotted to kill several public men, she was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment-

During the second trial the accused woman conducted her own case, and displayed a deep knowledge of the law and its practice. She made her own plea to the jury, and her eloquence brought tears to the eyes of several jurors.

The evidence showed that Mrs. Mararranged to destroy the residence of Judge Ogden while he and his family occupied it, because of the jurist’s alleged unfairness toward her in the trial of an insurance case.