April 16, 2025
ROSE PETERSON FAINTS
WHEN JURY ACQUITS HER.
In Court Where She Was Tried for
Killing Husband.
Acquitted by a jury in the criminal court after sixteen and one-half hours of deliberation, Mrs. Rose Peterson cried: "I am free, I am free," and fainted.
She had been on trial for two days in the charge of killing Fred Peterson, her husband, December 22. The case went to the jury at 10 'clock Wednesday night. It was not until 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon that the verdict was brought into court.
For only a moment Mrs. Peterson's faint lasted. Recovering her composure, she waked rapidly from the court room.
Labels: criminal court, women
