PF, in] Q AL ‘N —- r 5,600—Largest in Centre county, BELLEFONTE, PA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1910. 5 CENTS PER COPY “GUILTY OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE” Bert Delige Must Atone For the Horrible Crime of Rape and Murder. DETAILS OF The Jury Renders its Verdict at 8:55 O'clock on Saturday Evening—Clos- ing Events of the ; Makes No Defense—Confessions Ad- mitted. THE VERDICT. At 5:15, p. m, Saturday evening the case was given to the jury and they retired. They arrived at a verdict at 8:55. It was that they find Bert Delige “GUILTY OF MURDER FIRST DEGREE" CLOSE OF THE CASE The Closing Arguments and Charge of the Court. 11 o'clock all to the ury uestions were At submitted Legal q ted to the As there w the allow wed test 8 then submit Court as test my offered argument ol. EE R closing made by fendant by defer WAS Chambers for t At 11:25 court ad) o'clock p. m rmed until SATURDAY AFTERNOON Court ened once, ex-District Spangler, Commonwealth, began to addres Jury. In his introductory irks clearly defined the character of trial, the duty of the counsel for Commonwealth and defends also the duty the to their verdict the evidence, wit] out prejudice the prisoner or race, and without considerati the consequences as m associate yunsel for Cb for the jur ire re Trial—Delige | | dict IN THE! THE TRIAL Mr a crime that peace ind Runkle insisted this agains] the of the whole county That cuting officer, he had don« duty and appealed to them to render a ver consistent with the evidence that of “Murder in the first At 3:27 Col. Chambers concluding argument He characterized three kinds 1, indefinite; 2 evidence, missing; the Col. Chambers claimed Delige drunk from drinking whisk and cider down at Pine Top He ridiculed the oy tracks as indefinite broken and no ure the missing In regard to « that his client had made mflicting confessions, and red 1) he was welfare Ne Prose his degree.” began the the evidence of definite confessions was beer the razor made to idence thie effort was that was He parts nfessions under a CRY assistance was drunk the woman, but commit murder | vi ambers admitted that ells AH ted the woman, but that under her threat of his exposure in the morn- ing, and in a flash of violent temper, without malice aforethought, or deliberation, and while in a drunken condition, he cut her throat There no mal egan his part he & 131d applies iry Ir the Orvis 1} the § the first defined law as It ler I'he Hstinctior Fr of the first and second d« defined The ewesd In detail and attention being imstantial nat the were obtained sentat) clweer KTes testimon analvzed paid to that ire In re confessions, he that vith nn el Lin District Attorney W. G. Runkle Mr of the reviewed leal, impressive were devold of of feeling wand the jury Mr. Bpangler Ing to this Jur sistent desienated as nothing der In the first degree Following Mr. Bpangler trict Attorney, W. OG. Runj began his address to the jury at 2:51 p.m His remarks In reviewing the test) mony were to point out from the evi dence the motive of Delige to commit criminal assault yn the woman and murder followed ipanglier then re Le at Scotia, and testimony in a cl manner Hin sentiment or RPP ared to Crime the } ar 1K remarks display Impress oncluded find a wit} he test) ny mur is x network of around him that brought conviction, even w ntary confession in the rderly and a reflects ore Centre » justice Iwelige was protection of the law in order for him, upon his mviction to suffer the full penalty of the same law that protected him during the trial Thus the blood of Mrs. Baudis will be avenged and the majesty of the law and the dignity and respect for our courts has been maintaifed trinl 3 L ounty's oo given and 1» Ww nn it 1port irs the iu in Attorneys for Defendant. jarys Hon Ellis L. Orvis, President Judge TESTIMONY IN THE CASE Brief Summary of What Each Witness Said During The Trial. rial. from the regula Centre Den ng. That edings ! of the Dist lunklie., to the lined the impo pected to prove t Ae ywlug ted a Hul in the Court ert ia that he ex and (S10 2 mm rape Mra THURSDAY AFTERNOON Reported | < Edward Baudis er sir I remus Thomas Baudis Ara anyl f he wi direct hear pers Heard him o in and tol and Grand ran towards my sister Lhe M r went he over reemed cl Found 341 om and was lying blood there wy mother others on her was not A Od thers Maw long me back there Mary Baudisi—~Am a daughter of Hulda HBaudis last saw her alive about 3 o'clock Bunday afternoon October 16th, 1510 I cooked supper, next saw mother about 7 o'clock Heard a noise and Thomas went out and came buck, and we went out She was lying on her back. hands up snd. her bonnet by her pide. | seremmed and people came. 1 did not {know how mother was killed till that night at two o'clock John Sulkei«(This man a German Thomas H. Harter sworn as inter {pretor). I lived with my daughter Mrs. Baudis at Benore. | am In my 83nd year. | lived at Scotia for 28 years. My daughter was at home that day. Bhe left home about § o'clook; uy was in good health. Next saw her Iyihg In the field dead about 7 o'clock. I heard a cry, then went out In the field and found my daughter lying on the ground. The vole 1 heard It was my daughter's volce 1 believed I heard her call three times, 1 touch- ed her and found her cold; she did not show any signs of fe R. E. Cronemilleri—Lived at Seotia for about twenty-seven years; know Bert Delige the defendant, and knew fulda Baudis. Sunday. October 18th, heard erying, and went over and found Hulda Baudis lying there on her back. Her bonnet was lying on the ground and her glasses were sticking In her halr, and noticed that her throat was cut. It was after 7 o'clock, We stayed there till Dr. Ned Wilson MH. Ghaner:—Live at Bootia Hved there « ft 1% vears Delige and Hulda Baudis. Heard of the ohildrer while at chet Went over and found Mrs Baudis he bio ack w= h her nail a milk have Hert Fy Know throat it Dr. 8. G. Coons: " hl : J. B. Heberling leg lertaker lifetime Re u it mix FRIDAY MORNING J. MH. Wetzel live In am surveyor and have made a of the vicinity of Beotia, from urements on the ground paths, public roads, the Baudis' house, church, Red Row and boarding house. works, ets Cross examined Designated the place where murder was committed; It Is 2334 feel from Baudis house to place of mur. der; there Is no sod on mud dam nothing but yellow clay Rilla Ghaner: Bellefonte draft meas showing Delige house, Live at Boots, In Row. knew Hulda Baudis, also Delige: always knew him. Saw Baudis October 16, at my home; Hert Mrs {she came there about 6:30 In the ev. ening Mother and home; she stayed sister were at until 6:50 p. mm, when she left. | think she had a dog with her; she went up the road; 1 met her on the road; went out for water; she was going west, towards John Haugh's store; it was about the distance of the court room from our house; we live In third house. Saw Bert Delige; saw him right behind Mra. Baudis; he and Aaron were trav. oling In the same direction; It vas a bright moonlight night. Saw some boys, brother John and other boys; saw no. one else. Mra Baudis, Bert and Aaron were all going toward the west. In going to church passed Mrs. Baudis, and Aaron; Mra Baudis was ahead; they were about eight or ten feet behind her. Bert and Aaron were together; they were ing In the direction of thelr house. went to church; church convenes at 7:30 p. m, {do not know the defendant | Beotia on the 16th of October, we left | | exactly at 7 o'clock. Aaron Delige: and raised there; to Bert Knew live 0 Boeotia; old horn couslt Mrs augdis since 1 with my aunt boarded five VEeRrs Oftober 16th ax at Pine Top, below Wad “ne ‘Top o'clock: with Wie 1 Waddle at YOArs Left Hert me coming home from and the Wards Haugt the , Sane wa Bert's I went hee | Thomas f iar Daywalt: y Harry Murtorf: J Filey fw ge th stiff hat He wa walk. ing? on kK walking pretty Poa iad I done He did Mrs. Harry Murtorf Murt > vf Baw Fe Cronemill Mert » ! : : i N. B. Spangler, Esq. Attorney for the Commonwealth, Baudis' him. He towards to fast anything walking real Did not say | was a black, not very tall, stout look | Ing man, pretty heavy. It was 7 p. | m., or after } Bellefonte; | Down to Orin Klinoi—Live at | 1 noticed a man | along side. It was a colored man, he | was walking and going In the same | direction; he were a dark sult and rk derby hat. It was close by the on the opposite side, Carl Cronemiller Not sworn. Age 10 years. Boy stated he 4d not know the nature of an oath, as a test of his intelligence and ability to test Boys do not tell the trut they’ are punished and sometimes pay a fine. Good boys #0 to heaven, bad one to the bad . Am required to tell the truth, he law would punish me and wo would God. (The defendant ahoagitad to the test! of the wit ed, Objection overruled ie | Ba | willow i { those | sticks stuck Court Be glia Know Years started other Hoy was Father's Bert Delige Bunday ‘ sworn.) Live at Reuben. or five 16th, BOE the name for f« vening, October rch and with behind ne leading to Baudis | a end flint f 14 wi and saw a dark as going walking, Do not ur for ch bHov Es shes of King Lytle:—Age 1 years at Beotls Live know Bert ber Sunday Cronemiller me Be. ren wen the road Went ack of the betweer sven and Went to ct was 25 mm the road Saw a man the color were with Was James Hilliard: 1] we ’ ‘ ming tracks ck the at Wi larris ws left te i ke RECROSS | YW : ig] who them alter t the sticks } woe The »l t Ir 8 arrested William Harris fe work raillroa Was al Stormstown the ning of the 17th Baudis' home was at $e scrub was put there to guard tracks. There Wore Nttle along tracks #0 no disterd them; stayed there tracks were all measured a good many people there: when the sheriff came with the defendant. Saw tracks measured Saw Bert Delige's shoes put in the tracks Af near as 1 oan tell, whole of Bootia was there. The shoes At the tracks CROSS EX Commenrced to guard between # and 10 o'clock. 1 went there with the crowd, probably ten or fifteen In the crowd. Deo not know when the foot prints were made, 1 did not measure them; Kept no account of them, On guard on the tracks on the mud dam. The shoe was fit In four tracks; left In two tracks and the right one In two. R. E. Cronemiller-Was at Baudis' place all night. First tracks found after 7 o'clock. Church path Lived at Sootia all | October home was not on Came on at mid those would until the There were was thers one church path. He had been running, then sto! ; they looked fresh. Saw mil op “he fence at the woods with blood, est of Baudis' houses. Fol. lowed the trail to the 3 a the Jug house. The mud dam south east of the woods. The mud dam (Continued on second page)
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