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rake $27,000,000 a year. In .tax reve nues,t WOMAN FACES DEATH INi- ■ —-(Continued From Page One)* White. There are no legal grounds for overthrowing the jury’s verdict, ie it is believed.J The jury, that decreed the Indian girl, from-the hill country of West ' Virginia, must pay with her life for ’ the life she took in the name of j. love deliberated one hour and 50 minutes.J£j Mrs. Lowther appeared to be thecalmest person in the crowdedn courtroom when the jurors filed intothe jury bix. Spectators edged for-[d ward. Nervous and white faced, MissCornelia A, Warner, clerk of courtsa_ received the verdict from jury fore-i- psh c. Pay Noyes, Geneva machin- 1st. '“We, the jury duly Impaneled, do n„ find the defendant Julia Maude:r, Lowther, guilty (Miss Warner's 0” V(^Cf! Altered. Her face went pale.She could hardly be heard as she n- finished reading the verdict) of lt;p* murder in the first degree as charg-ed in the indictment.” nt Maude Lowther kept on chewing 0 §^hi. Her lips parted slightly and nt she sank deeper in her chair. The spectators filed out silently. A few p. expressed the opinion “she got what of she deseryed.”s- J«dge Oglevee, assigned here from e„ Carrollton, appeared a bit stunned a Later the Judge said it was the first death mandate he had received Iv from a pury since he ascended the In bench In 1928.is, Veteran court observers had failed to read the death verdict in scan-ed ning the 12 poker-faced men as they Id! stood in the jury box. tis When the courtroom had been e- cleared Mrs, Lowther was turned over to the jail matron, Mrs. Lorene p, Blanche, wife of the sheriff, as r~ the two women marched across the il~ courtyard to the county jail, escort-ld ed by deputy sheriffs, the girl laugher ed.•. Three hours before she had told
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Piqua Daily Call
Piqua, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 10, 1931
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