This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... retired and immediately indicted Heebner for murder. Later Luther M. Collins was added to the prisoners so. accused. Robert Brainard was similarly indicted, but Loomis escaped. Maurer was tried first. He was a simple-minded Dutchman. When the plain statement in the indictment was read to him in Court, and he was asked ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... retired and immediately indicted Heebner for murder. Later Luther M. Collins was added to the prisoners so. accused. Robert Brainard was similarly indicted, but Loomis escaped. Maurer was tried first. He was a simple-minded Dutchman. When the plain statement in the indictment was read to him in Court, and he was asked by the Judge whether he was guilty or not, he was frightened, and hesitated and stammered, according to Butler, Yesler, Foster and others of the pioneers then present. "Vat ish de question, Shudge?" he is said to have asked. It was read to him again, when he innocently replied, "I suppose I ish quilty, Shudge." Terry is said to have leaned over and whispered to him, "Not guilty, you fool, say not guilty," whereupon Maurer amended his plea by saying "not guilty." The first admission was disregarded by the Court and the declaration of innocence was entered on the record instead. Maurer cried with fear, thinking he would be hung, saying he would never see his family again, and he felt so bad. The trial jurors were Henry H. Decker, Henry Stevens, Seymore Wetmore, Delos Waterman, Chas. Walker, John Henning, Wm. H. Brannon, Samuel Bechtelheimer, George Bowker, Dexter Horton, Wm. A. Strickler and Timothy D. Hinckley. H. H. Tobin, Henry Pierce, O. M. Eaton, Henry Van Asselt, Franklin Matthias and Henry L. Yesler appeared as witnesses for the prosecution, while those for the defense were Edward A. Clark, Lewis V. Wyckoff, C. D. Boren, Sidney B. Simons, Luther M. Collins, Wm. H. Brown, Henry Adams, Joseph Williamson and Wm. N. Bell. The whole proceedings were generally looked upon as a joke, but a couple of the jurors and the prosecuting attorney made it as serious for the prisoners as they could. Maurer was trie...
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