The Weekly Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 1

A :1 Vol. CORVALLIS, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30.1907. By a F. Irvine nn na iw nn-.

STILL HOPING ACQUITTED subjeote. The Hermann case is one of them. m. We Are Now Prepared to Outfit The Man and The Boy more than 1000. The officiate at the asylum have no fear that the girl slayer will attempt to eecape and no guard 'i placed over, her, with the exception, of locking her room at night.

She is permitted to roam about the grounds with the other inmates, and her treatment is far different irom what she would reoeive if she were an inmate of the women's ward in the penitentiary. Esther never speaks ot the shoot ing incident, but if it is mentioned she insists that Bhe did right in killing George. No remorse is shown. Her relations with Creffield she Btill considers quite proper and fails to understand why they should have been objected to by her family. Washington, April 26.

Thejury which is trying Binger -Herman on Oai reciept of clothing this spring are nobby. Big assortment. Prices That Defy Competition! Shoes P. B. Kerths" are up to date in style aad the best wearers ESTHER MITCHECL CONFIDENT THAT SOME DAY CREFFIELD WILL "RETURN.

She Is Enjoying the Beet of Health and is a Favorite at the Asylum Is Permitted to Roam About the Grounds. Seattle April 27. Still believing that some day Creffield, the Oregon Holy Roller, who was killed in Seattle, last July, by Geo. Mitchell, will return. Esther Mitch- ell is spending her- days in the Western Washington asylum for the insane at Stellacoom.

She still clings to old beliefs and Ideals, and believes that she did right when she shot and killed her brother, George. The country air and simple life have succeeded in restoring to her face the color that was paled by her long incarceration in the county jail after she committed the crime. liar pnysioal neaitn is almoBt per fect, bhe naa won the admiration of those in charge at that institu tion by her willingness to do minor tasks in the women's yard, and her cheerful disposition has made her a favorite among the more rational inmates of the asylum, who number I Our Line of Medium Priced Shoes Are from the bsst factories in the country and all areguaranteed shoes. Our line of hats embrace all I the new styles. Oar prices are right and we ask an inspection of the above lines.

Call and See XI, HARRIS. i Oregon WMt You See is Worth Twice What You Read! As you are now coming to market with the opportunity of comparing values, we ask you to see our lines. Corvallis, HU- We have a broken line of which we are closing out at remarkably low prices, fore your size is gone. "You don't say.TifiBfnarked Pater, before he had timeXto hunt up his famous smile and put it on straight. "Well, I didn't expect it," he weot on, as he rubbed his eyes, for he trad already been working several hours in the rather unsatisfactory light of his reception room btlow the sheriff's office.

"I gave them enough dope to send him'over the road alone, and I had no idea my long trip to Washington would be all in vain. And then there was plenty of other evidence to show he had destroyed those letter files on which charge be was originally Indicted. They showed plenty of motive for this act, and if I am any judge of I can't for the life of me see how he got out from under, when he had it coming. "Siyi juries are funny things, anyway. The easiest I thought he could possibly get was a hung jury." "Oh, well," and Sleven A.

Doug las Puter sighed, "that is only a starter for my friend Binger. They will get him out here iu Oregon all right," and Steve looked longingly at hie typewriter, as if he would like to jot down a few thoughts while his impressions were hot. "No moukey business in Oregon," and Puter's smile went on shift. "I shall leave room enough in my forthcoming work to dwell on the various movements in the Hermann case," and the cold gray eyes of the prisoner had not a touch of mercy in it. "I shall have more or lees to Bay about it.

I understand it wotf't be long before he will be brought out here to face trial on some of his other fraudulent operations." Puter had previously stated that the judge tried to hold the jury as olosely as possible to the burning of he letter files, stripping off all the other evidences ot fraud which had to be injeoted in the testimony to show motive for the destruction of the books' At Bellfountain. Martin Williams died of pneu monia Monday night at the home of his son, J. E. Williams of this place. The interment was in Simpson cemetery Wednesday at 11 o'clock.

Miss FiOy Hawley returned home the first of the Wetk. Dale Perin. was in Corvallis Tube day, having his wheel repaired. We suppose he intends to keep out of the way of Mr. Walters and his auto.

Lawrence Dyre is in this place again after an ab sence of lonr years. Mr. Bowman died at the poor farm Monday night. He had been a county charge for years and was about ninety-four years old. Mr.

Handchew lost a valuable horse last week. At th9 high prU ces that horses are selling at, be can not afford to lose many. Murl Howard of Or A. came up Tuesday to attend the funeral of his grandfather Williams. The social to be given Friday evening at the Old Fellows hall promises to baa very enjoyable affeir.

BEST BREAD and pastry can obtained at Starr's Bakery. be CIRCUS SPECIAL. Corvallis Eastern Railroad Co. Will run following special trains between Corvallis and Albany on 1, 1907, account NORRIS ROWE circus exhibit ing at Albany afternoon and even ing of this date. From Corvallis From Albany 2:25 lo.oo A.

M. 8:56 6:00 Train scheduled to leave Albany It P. M. will not depart nntil alter the close of the night performance. TICKETS at special rats of 5o cents for adults and 25 cents for children under 12 years of age will be on sale May 1, 1007, good for this date only.

H. H. Lixg, Agent. Geo. F.

Nevixs, Gsu Pae. Agent JURY FINDS LETTER BOOKS NOT GOVERNMENT RECORDS, Took Jury TweQty-One Hours to Arrive at an Agreement and Additional InstructionsEit Were Asked Much Evidence Thrown Out. San Francisco, April 27. Fran- cis J. Henty today declared that Binger Hermann's acquittal in Washington will have no effect upon his trial at Portland under tne in dlctments returned against him for complicity in the land frauds.

Washington, April 27. Not gnil-ty was the verdict of the jury after 2I hours of deliberation in the case against Bioger Hermann on the charge of destroying government records by burning 35 letter-press copy-books when Hermann left the general land office, of which be had been commissioner. Soon after Judge Stafford reached the courtroom this morning thejury filed in and asked for additional instructions. Tbey again retired and returaed at 12.45 this afternoon with the verdict of acquittal, having been out since' 3:30 yesterday afternoon. After the verdict was read Hermann said: "It Is wuat I expected.

I am innocent and my friends always believed me so. I am greatly pleased to have my honor vindicated." Thejury in their request for in etructione asked Judge Stafford to repeat again the denoation of a government record. Under the definition given them by the court, the jurjr found tbat tne letter-press copy books were not government rtcorde. According to a statement made by one of the jurors after they were discharged, a large mafs of the testimony introduced by the prosecution was given little weight, as the jury considered that much of the evidence giving tne inference ot fraudulent deals by Hermann had no bearing on thequeetloo of whether government records had been de-etroytd by him. Portland, April 27.

'The verdict of. not guilty in the Binger Hermann trial is a miscarriage of justice and ehos the necessity of having juries of highest standard in the trial of cases," said Unit-d States District Attorney William C.Bris'ol when informed of the verdict at Washington. "I say this because there is no doubt in my miud that ih' evidence presented at the trial wan conclusive proof Hermann's Ruilt," continued Mr. Bristol. "When I say this I do not mean to cast any reflections 00 the honesty of the jurors, but 1 do oelleve thatin cases of similar nature they should be locked up during the trial." Mr.

Bristol refused to talk further for publication about the trial, and when aeked whether Hermann would be tried in Portland, stated that Francis J. Heney was in cha-ge of the Oregon cases and that be could not speak for Mr. Heney. It is considered certain, however, that the Oregon congressman will te brought to Oregon for trial in the Blue Mountain ciee, in which he was indicted with Senator John H. Mitchell and otbere.

Hermann was not tried, having bi cured a severance because of his trial in Washington. Portland, April "27.orflan Telegram: In Steve Puter's book space must be given to a new and Unexpected chapter. This decision was reached without much notice to the publishers, when a Telegram man advised the eminent land fraud king and in his apartments at the Stevens hotel this morning, that bis old friend Binger Hermann had been acquitted by the jury in Washington. The pages of this new chapter will be of triple-ply, 150 test, and on its indestructible woof will be emblazoned a few choice remarks about the Hermann acquittal. It will, in all probability, be couched in terms that will make tne thunders of "Jove seem gentle as the cooing of doves.

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today, after a stormy scene "between Taw yers, durlog wnicn toe lie was passed. At 10 0 clock the jury was locked up for the night, having failed to and no verdict b'e returned, until court convenes at A. M. tomorrow? All evening Hermann and hia wife waited in the office of their son-in-law, H. P.

Gatley, just across the street from the court, hoping for a verdict. They went home when the jury was locked up. EGGS from thoroughbred brown -leghorns, fifty cents per setting Independent phone, 421 Corvallis. Ladies and hildrens Shoes, be- on Davis. Corvallis.

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