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Vermilyea Verdict is Expected Tonight, 25 February 1935, p. 2

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-.. a.-.'-%-; V -:'-Y · * ; : .y'v. > ; · · ' " · / : · " · · · Accused--Nods To His Friends Gounselr Speak 4 Denying Insanity PLEA OF-INSANITY " Harokl W. Vennilyea entered the court room at the ~ Assiae--_Court shortly after nine o'clock this morning on the -last day 'of hU trial. He .was-wearing a suit of brown and gave a light nott of recognition to Two Lo*t LiviM and Prop- some 'friends. · · ' . .',,,.. : He sat: with his chair . leaning Defence Doe» Not Admit] ttjjree.'that"-_a=pew»i--'wbo Estimated has _ a well Act's Commission hi ' "keep spirits _ away _ _ _ deftaed-_ against the right side .of: the dock at Millions ·eeenpted-that position for the Case like Reuben as could bs-^thfai;man -This-posUion--he "STwaysTHtw a wlvote ixA of rounej. has taken since the trial opened, his H«. hag "cherts of it down In the . feet braced against the newell poets swamp." · . ' ., ; ; "/*-.* of the dockl' A few tufjustments of -And Uie hoTn-rimmea glasses'were made Crown Prosecutor Qtorge Urtju- "We come to a : sister, EJarah , tofeeaeand he concerned himself with his hard, K.C, conducting the prosecu- Moynes.. There'is some confusiori:i Messages Garbled on:- fingers i the nmn and hands. In his .face in the trial of Harold W, VerOne Call was considerable color. He did not tion Lmed name at the county court house believe it was in her early 30'« when glance about .very .much. About railyea "WM this today charged that the man ac- she died--a suicide. The" sum total (Bjr the Associated Press) him sat his guards.' t the same cused of the crime of murdering is four suicides^-Sarah and Karl ate with a . Eight crippled vessels struggled to his mother on the-night of Oct- Moynes, Phoebe £obert£Qn and a o Trenton. e«dtpprti,tod«y_tai.thei,w«k« :of ober-4, lastrhad acted m "a per- Christie,- who ~ lad .the howling'gale*, which swept the fectly sane manner all through, and There are Fred -aud Gerald Vennllyou teller* yea._LJane_Jo!3es__Ketche : when.he Worth Atlantic and the Bay of "Jcoea Vermilye* · (suffered cnme from the time he had left "beth Callfornia_stg)_by__step_ untU his from melancholia), Thomas Vermili. Trenton, 'Two persona lost their lives at sea "If yea had vicious moments, Reuben is he liable to the storms. Ten were killed in Delilah Reid, who became we are to believe that the symptoms and anoe as the violent wind whistled childish. - ·- - ~ · supposedly. held by this man give ·rtewed la from the ocean wreaking wideOne Became Childish evidenceof_a paraoldal_copdition, s said they spread damage. Many were injured -'Then Charles-'who became-cr I "fear that' many .of us miist ish The .name and-damage^ resulted estimated to at 60.' That is all we Kave Walker's Hardware Store tffen feel that we should be examined," about him. >wn but it total several million francs. the Crown Prosecutor told the jury ' t»~Utt The 2,993-ton Greek steamer Burglarized Early "So we have this fact established. and Urs. AftichU Vergottls sent out a wirein his fifty minute address. There has been such a variety-and Sunday less appeal for assistance, saying its Defence Plea degree of mental trouble, that there place told steering apparatus was disabled. Gaining entrance by means of .Col. R. H. Greer. K.C., chief de- Is a blemish which doctors _ agree 3. CoL 1) :nilye» was fence counsel, had previously adany member under "stress >rcaking a pane'of glass and reach* drefsed the jury in a two and one that ·. when be would break down under pressure ng in to unfasten a rear window', naif hour address marked by a bril- much sooner than a normal wind. .wered the that the robbers broke, entered and burglar- llanre and oratory seldom heard in "Having this established, I. may door was local court. "This man's actions well, -fairly -and properly aak" you ized Walker's Hardware Store early Mrs. Verthrough were those of a crazy to do your duty well and truly to Sunday morning, stealing two val- all man," he gave as his opinion. He find this man not guilty, upon .the' uabie:_22_.calibre_rifles_and~ over said that-defenct: did list admit the grounds-of insanity.--^--Hls-Ixirdstiiir Cortef«...Ax . It ·500 rounds ' of ammunition, that commission of crime, but if he did will explain this later. · · Hotel Where Tory Rooced "You will-be instructed, as'te-a!id he goes Jury itted the stolen rifles. The robbery his he- suggested that _the ejJoor.The -With htttd b«j»d, and «tamling ,T.~York,--an 0 tEeliair at the window of the Belvldere fie. added that there was "gTyen~Ta-^easonalSe"7 doubt; _ ha. has of the Walker Hardware insane.' an Institution .to.take care of such the'rfght to ask and "demand the int T.l7ric," Hotel, ; Front Street, on Sunday employee Co. who discovered the breakin, a fase. CoL .Greer spoke for two right of any reasonable doubt, .We iced, about. aft«rnooni-Sobert E. Roy, juror on wilUnot quibble or. argue about, · ' , " xU mother the Vermilyee murder - trial ^watch- when he went. to the store early hours.'and a. half. the case means or. the guattay* morningto ten^ to . A t Un'mlnutes after.'two; o'clock, what ·a he was ed th« funeral of his father, Robert nes» of It. . . . V" fires in the basement," ' · '. this aftertoon Mr. .Justice Nlcol ed out ^e Boj,., »««d *I perhaps Trenton, irive* back ptuss'throoKh the city on the way iff.- York'-. discovered -the 'tear Jeffrey, wilt begin his instructions described UMe^sad8MI wifldow.^open -aad^af ter * short" Inthe jury.,- : , . ' . . " '.,, ttoctociif he goes, If West Huntingdon cemetery, vestlgallbd " iminftSfitely called in a Harold Vermilyea .on trial for the hanging ind buys a to over it where Interment tooic place. ; has-been Owing to the gravity of the case the local police.-'Other employees past >leven days,on the charge of ning might strike nllyea was upon" which" the juror is serving were notified'and;after a general murdering his ?S-yeer-oid, mother, · " · · · - . -Tried- U Oet-A»ir 1 type hat- extra precautions hare been taken check-up of the stock it was dis- Aurelia"Vermilyea in this, city csi ^Harold, whoJ "' Nkol sell by Mr. Justice Nlcol Jeffrey, pre- closed, that only two .22 calibre rifles were missing," a single shot u no porf- siding justice,--to hare the jurors and a repeating rifle. J*urther :. except in under ctose guard at an times. It search <& that over 30 boxes, nen at tb« had been expected that all jurors 50 per ! box of -22 calibre shells were ?rocee<ilngs since trial started, toyerf Before he tea home, the --«-. r-esembling" woaM attend the funeral of Mr. also sic stokn. with a small piece of wood, clearitig in the family had given on Sunday. Cireful scrutiny by the police iis nails, as he lolled in Ms seat tendencies sve identl- Roy at Trenton th« evidence of ,:tas»nity; haunted · «»> > .brought out »be fact that the robs morning waiting for Court to by some misgivings within himself man who bery was completed by youths of a open. The usual wad of gum on he got aw»yas far from home as he trips. One Under age, as the opening in the which he chews constantly, was could. You would think that as of the acwindow through which they pro- again evident. A top coat, usually an older boy he .wouM hane stared · had treatcured entrance is much too small carried was not brought into on the farm. · We gather that ho booked him to admit sn adult. A rear door was court today by him. was a little afraid of hlnsself. Wo -*d another open, however, and may have been For hours this morning one of find from the doctor. Dr. Robertson,' opened by a young boy to later :he largest crowds yet to try and that the first boy is always though!. admit oldei accomplices. No snow rain seats, waited outside the court more of by. the mother. Bo wf1 the Walker tor the doors to open. Overcome by id a cap, a Albert Quincey Spectacor, having fallen early Sunday morning the exertion and wait, one elderly find in this family that evetiTtho " he was away, he never forgot--thai, the foot prints underneath the winIf Bannas' down were indistinguishable on the resident dropped dead in the crush. he always wrote once a week and Victim of Heart e him back hard icy surface. .The local police With a table full of exhibits, in- oftener on other, occasions." ie house_fif ---------Seizure cluding photographs, reams of type- -- Ac^B^cF-'Adored by"Mo<iieP~~^"~ '" are- still investigating" however. ; the maid written and printed, documents and I might point out that the shock·£XIULtbifcl.l)ttth cams syddealr le even volumes upon psychiatry and Ing aspects of this case that Jbe was 2- A n JUROR NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND FUNERAL ^jarssMsr,, s:' ^^SSSSSatS? COLtAPS AT COURT HOUSE

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