Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1907 — GILMAN FOUND GUILTY [ARTICLE]

GILMAN FOUND GUILTY

Agreemeut Reached This Morning After An All Nights Session. Jndge Hanley closed his instructions to the jury about four o’clock JV»day afternoon, and the case then went to the jury. The instructions were clear and entirely fairand impartial. Both Judge Wiley and “Sir William” Parkisou are said to have had the weeps coming pretty freely from Fred’s relatives by their eloquent appeals lor their client, and then Davis for the state had something doing in the teary line from the depositors by his touching description of their losses and sufferings. At 11 o’clock at night Judge Hanley called thejury in to ask if they had agreed on a verdict, and the foreman blurted out that they stood six to six. Judge called them down pretty sharply, informing him that he only wanted to know if they had agreed on a verdict, aid then sent them back to thejury room. The jury soon after this voted 10 to two for conviction until about five o’clock Sat. morning when tbe other two got in line and a verdict of guilty was agreed upon. The jury does not fix the penalty in such cases the law prescribing an indeterminate sentence of from one to three years in the pen. The defense asked the court to withhold judgment until Monday morniDg, for them to move for a new trial, which was granted, and Gilman continues at liberty on his bond.