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Nurse Deaths Verdict Takes 49 MinutesPEORIA, 111. (AP)—ACircuit Court jury Saturday convicted Richard Speck, 2’5, a blond drifter, of massacring eight student nurses in Chicago last summer and recommended that he die in the electric chair.Speck looked disinterested as the verdict, reached after only 49 minutes of deliberation, was read.Public defender Gerald Getty ;aid the verdict would be appealed.Asked how Speck felt, Gettysaid, “To say that he is veryiisappomted is obviously an understatement. All he wantslow is to see his family.”Motions will be heard In Pe-a on Monday. Judg Paschen. the nresidaid Speck will not be sentenced or at least 30 days. Sentencing rrcbablv will be in Chicago, site f the eight murders, July 14,Judge Paschen is not obligat-d by law to accept the recom-nendation of death.The fathers of the victims,vho were seated in two benches n the small courtroom, filed uickly and stoically out afterluickly he verVverdict was read.Persons standing outside the econd-floor courtroom creamed the “guilty” verdict lown to teen-agers crowded on he first floor below. One teen-iger ran out the front door•leas* Turn To Page 2, Column 4
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Anderson Sunday Herald
Anderson, Indiana, US
Sun, Apr 16, 1967
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