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COURTROOM CHEERSolistvccbtPHOENIX—API—A superior court jury last night found William E. Demand innocent of first-degree murder in the slaying of his next-door neighbor, Vernon Donn Frederick, in nearby Scottsdale last July 27.The six-man, six-woman jury deliberated only an hourand 24 minutes before reachin its verdict. When the verdictthtaJcClt;stYesterday s H.»Another RecordLetme gnaw on a bone And call me “Smiley;**Let me snooze in the sunAnd call me “Rilev.**TheorPupYou had plenty of sun for snoozing yesterday, pooehie, when the mercury got shoved up to 85 to establish a new record for ttye date, beating by two degrees the former high of 83 set on Nov. 9, 1941. The only hotter place in the nation was Yuma where the highwas read, the crowded courtroom cheered and Demand, smiling but shaken, shook hands witheach juror.THK CASK DREW nationwide attention because of its bizarretemperature better at 86.was one degreeEven the early morning lowtoday was a very warmish 158, but at Saranac lake in upper New York state, the mercury was a chill 8 degrees.If you are wondering what the weather menu for tomorrow’s Veterans day parade will be. the forecast is for some windinesa at times andaspects.Frederick, a Scottsdale town councilman, was shot to death in his home as he watched television. An hour later, Demand’s wife, Faye, a 29-year-old Dallas, Tex., oil heiress, drowned when her car plunged into a canal.The murder weapon was found in Demand's car, but defense attorney Marvin Johnson pointed out that the slayer could have put it there.JOHNSON Sl'CCKEI)KI in in-evidence a book found in the Demand home entitled, “Dead By Now.” which, he said, had a plot “similar” to the Frederick murder case.Johnson said the book's plot centered around a murder and a suicide of a wealthy woman named Fave. He said that Favetr vDemand “could have” used theselemwaCcCitvtroducing asX4tOP1siplot in real-life.atj*Ftcfl
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Tucson Daily Citizen
Tucson, Arizona, US
Wed, Nov 10, 1954
Page 4
Full Page
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Bruce W.
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