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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1895)
THE ASHLAND ADVERTISER, flonarch of the Amateurs. j.. Vol. III. . ■ ,i’ AhHLAXD. OKMJOS, W K I) X EM) AY. NOVEMBER «. 1H9&. Xo. ti. THE DECISION QUICKLY flADE. THAT WICKED GUN. DURRANT fWST DIE. A l:le»h Wound from Which no Serious Result If Anticipated. The Verdict ol the Jury Heartily Endorsed by the People. Theodore Purrant, who has been on trial in San Francisco for sometime past for the murder of Blanche Lamont, is now a man destitute of liope. The fol lowing verdict seals his future: “ We, the jury, find the defendant, William Henry Tlieodore Purrant, guilty of murder in the first degree.'* The verdict was ren dered by the jury at four o’clock last Friday afternoon. The jury retired to their room at half past three after an address that extended through an hour and a half by Judge Murphy. A deliberation of twenty min ute! united the opinions of ilw mem- liers of the jury and bv four o'clock the people in the crowded court room knew that Purrant was to die for the murder of Blanche laimont. The verdict of the jury is heartily en dorsed by the people, and not until the murderer has been swung into eternity will some of them be satisfied. Friday, November 8 is the day art for the sentence. On that day, also, trial v>f the Minnie Williams casv will lie set. Another shooting accident, w hile not serious, exemplifying the saying that “guns are dangerous playthings in the hands of small boys, you know,” oc curred last Saturday forenoon. The participants in the accident were Harry High and Lloyd Cox,while an old thirty-two caliber revolver played a prominent part. The boys, having found the revolver, lrought some cartridges for it and went down upon Bear Creek to hunt. In attempting to extract a cart ridge from the revolver, on their return, young High accidentally discharged the weapon, the ball grazing his thumb and ploughing a gash through young Cox’s left arm. Pr. Browers dressed the wound and no serious result is anticipated. Satisfied at Last. It is an old saying that the farmer is a hard man to please and satisfy; no sooner is he thoroughly complaining of too much rain than the necessity for ir- rigation stan»s him in the face, and start«» him investigating the latest practical and profitable methods. Experience The 5ta*e Held Up. now con firms the claim that a Hercules Gasoline Gas Engine solves the problem A. C. Freck, a rough character who of economical, reliable power; and for had lieen placed in the Klamath County once the farmer is suited, for a Palmer jail for horse-stealing, preferring free A Rev Pumping Plant so operated gives dom to confinement, escaped last Friday. him a chance of clearing his overflown After obtaining bis freedom, he pro lands, and, later on, of flooding his ceeded to bob I up the Ager-Link ville ¡»arched fields, lieaides using his engine Stage. The hold-up was made within for cutting feed, sawing wood and run almut twelve miles of Klamath Falls ning churns, etc. early Sunday morning. The stage was halted, relieved of the mail ami told to Will not Fight. |iass on. Deputy Sheriff Gordon, being al>oard The chances of the Corl»ett-Fitzsim- the stage, returned shortly to ca^e the escaped bird and was successful in his mons mill taking place in Arkansas an* efforts and the robber is again behind very slight. Telegraph offices have been the bars, decidedly the worse for his ordered to return all money collected for bulletins. lawlessness.