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MAN’S COUNSEL ACKNOWLEDGE CRIME(Continued From Page One.)It an attack of acute Indigestion which 1** suffered toward the clow of Thursday'^ seifcion. •• ^ ••J. iAssistant Prosecutor Pontius in reviewing the ease to the jury dee-hired tliat every act of Willmnon be. lore and at the time of the crime showed deliberation and premeditation. He argued that the motive wasfinancial benefit.Attorney Bratieher declared to the jury that the state had failed to make a first degree murder rase against the defendant, maintaining chat a crime of second degree had only been shown, not considering the insanity plea. He classified the crime us having been exeruted without motive, and asserted that strong evidences of the defendant’s insanity had been introduced* |[hiring the arguments relatives of the defendant and deceased occupied chairs in court. Around the defendant. were his aged parent a, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah WiHainan of Jackson township, his wife, JjOttie, w ho held their j three-year old son as he slumbered. INear the prosecution’s table sat William Burroway, father-in-law of the deceased, his tw\ daughter, Mrs. Ada ifeider and Lottie Burroway, and Karl Koons, Id-year-old son of the murdered man.After the case reaches the jury thepanel will be kept together until averdict has been agreed upon They will he in charge of Bailiff Alexander, on the third floor of the court house. I
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Canton News Democrat
Canton, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 26, 1910
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