Can't Believe He's Guilty
Item
- Title
- Can't Believe He's Guilty
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 15-Mar-20
- page
- 15
- Identifier
- Image 15 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), March 15, 1920, (Final Edition - Extra) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Stock broker, jury
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderer
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Court
- Length of story
- 145 words
- Description
- Joseph A. Kelly, a Manhattan stock broker living at No. 772 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, was excused today as a prospective juror in the trial of Jesse Walker, nineteen, in the Criminal Branch of the Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment for first degree murder. "In my opinion," said Kelly, "no man comes to his senses and looks upon life in the proper perspective until he is at least twenty eight years old. That is my own age, and I am just coming to my senses. I do not believe this boy, could be guilty of intentional murder. It is charged that with two other former sailors, one a deserter, Walker entered the candy shop of Samuel Wolchak at No. 208 Wychoff Avenue, Brooklyn, on March 11, 1919, and when Wolchak failed to throw up his hands when told to do so shot and killed him.
