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v :.. '■ w * v * * .* a • 9 4Si’*[)*‘Wlt;v the jury find defendant!Kililty of manslaughter/ :nniF;that he I* eighteen . years off•• ■ . *»»• K**■**«.«** c *; e{lt;After being out two bours; •jury m the ease of the state of -InSi ana. vs, Harry Heaiy, IndlcinHafci trifed for the murder of Robtfr Wilker, February 2$, l?12p.returnfe. a ^aled ; verdict at I) o'clock :p. rp.Thursday night. The foreman 'top] charge of-It anti it was read in opei court this 'morning at 0 q’eio|l In £he presence of the defendaptva^c relatives, the attorneys for- tlio stajtlt; ancjf the/defense, and a court roob fulj; of curious people.. ^YhiIe.. tKlt; verdict was' being read * profound si lened prevailed. The verdict Carrife with it a term of from two td fweiitj'ond; years in the reformatory at Jeffersonville. . : tImmediately after the reading pi the].verdict-. Attorney A. J.! Padgeii moved for a new trial. The coufct said it would take the matter up iit./SO ]). lit, / The defendant: arid’:.h|t father and'a bailiff went off in searchof lionet, *he- spectators/fllerf.’ .pithndj:the court went info probale Vu^-1. \ '■ Hj^ lljiere were many guesses as/to whijt.the verdict would be,.; Sow were cock sure it would be. munldr in; the first degree,.others thought ft would not go so far* and still othetjs; werp sure the young man wonUl't^ acquitted. It .was* :noted that \] wojjien,’ always Sympathetic, favored acquittal. • The men' ae a rule were of. the opinion that there .are bhtire-ly.tjoo many murders nowaday* anftthat; it is time to stop it.. pit the first ballot were, two- votef* for-first 'degree ' murder—no - more i after that. About ten ballots |werg taktjn, the jury finally settling jo.w§ oi/inanslaughter, * ' ■/£■Ojne young woman said, Oh, deari. IT11 never make .another guess’, im'ji verdict. I jvas sure ho would bo ac£ quitted on” the evidence/’ j .§ At; 1:3ft ‘.this .afternoon . Harrjr; Healy was sentenced by-Judge Og:/ don to serve a- term-of frorh ixwo td.: twenty-one years in the reformiijtorj-at Jeffersonville. While pronoundn? sentence the judge evinced muel emotion . and • gave1 the' hoy • sotm •fatliprly advice, telling him'thatjtWs was;the only stain on' his obiardctei and that he should so live' as. to jblo it oiit* } ■
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Daviess County Democrat
Washington, Indiana, US
Sat, May 04, 1912
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