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WHILE JURY was filing from courtroom to deliberate his fate, Billy Rupp, 1^ confessed slayer of Ruby Ann Payne, IS, lighted up; began long wait.—(Staff Photo.)Fails To Save TotDivided 7-5On Sentence:Life—DeathSANTA ANA—Jurors debating the fate of confessed sex killer Billy Rupp were deadlocked early today on whether to return a verdict of death or life imprisonment for the 18-year-old slayer of a Yorba Linda baby-sitter.The panel was locked lip for the night at 12:30 a. m. after Superior Judge Edward E. Morrison ordered two polls of the jurors. The jury is to resume deliberations at 9 a. m. today.Rupp, who confessed to the slaying of baby-sitter Ruby Ann Payne, 15. was brought to the courtroom as the jury was polled.Results of the first poll at 11:35 m. Wednesday showed thefour-man, eight-woman panel divided six to six. Foreman Henry Jackson informed the court.“ At midnight, a second poll •showed the panel divided seven to# five, according to Foreman Henry Jackson. He was not permitted to indicate which verdict the poll favored.The jurors were admonished by the court not to discuss the case among themselves or to read any newspapers. The court ordered hotel rooms of each juror searched for newspapers.Earlier, the jurcrs twice asked Judge Morrison for instructions, disclosing at that time they were considering a verdict of life imprisonment.«Heart Massage TryProsecutor James L. Davis had asked the death penalty for the blond beekeeper’s helper who three times signed confessions that he bludgeoned Ruby Ann with a hammer, shot her twice with a .22 caliber rifle, and then fondled her as she lay mortally wounded.A dramatic operation failed to save the life of a 2-year-old boy who succumbed late Wednesday to the fascination of a swimming pool near his home at Rolling Hills,Little Ronald Harter, son of a Long Beach post office clerk, was pronounced dead after a surgeon made an incision into his chest and attempted to massage his heart into action.Ronald, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Harter of 51 Portuguese Bend, wandered away from home about 3 p. m. An hour later he was found floating face upward in the swimming pool at the adjacent home of Ernest B. Rockwell, 1 Ranchero Rd.Another Ship Tieup LoomsRupp killed Ruby Ann Aug. 8 while she was baby-sitting at the William Perry Dyer ranch home | at Yorba Linda where she lived.Ruby Ann’s mother, Mrs. Lawrence Payne, was in court as the jury' was given the case at 4 p.m. Wednesday. There she met Billy's parents,, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Rupp Sr. of East Los Angeles.SAN FRANCISCO — HTB. Another tie-up of West Coast shipping was threatened Wednesday when the Marine Firemen’s Un-A county fire department res-idcue squad tried to revive him with an inhalator. When this failed, Ronald was rushed, to San I Pedro Community Hospital where the surgery was performed.The doctor performing the operation, who declined use of his name, said the boy had been dead about a half hour and had a bruise, under, his right eye, indicating the 3?oungster may have struck his head as he went into the pool.ion announced its members would refuse to sign on ships beginning today in protest against the Wage Stabilization Board's delay in approving, recently arbitrated wage hikes.The AFL Sailors’ Union of the Pacific ended a similar protest action Monday under a formula worked out with the Pacific Maritime Assn.The WvSB in Washington meets today, at which time they will consider pay raises granted the sailors last summer. The MarineTo Mrs. Payne the trial was something of an .enigma. She said she could not understand the insanity pleas the youth made nor could she understand why, if Rupp was “sick of mind as his defense claims, he was permitted to work where her daughter was baby-sitting.The jury in its two queries to the court each time asked information about a life sentence. The jurors wanted to know if a life sentence meant that the defendant would be imprisoned for life or if he could be paroled.Judge Morrison replied that he could only refer them to the court’s instructions, but added that the length of time • Rupp would serve if given a life sen' tence would depend entirely upon the parole board.
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Independent Long Beach
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Thu, Nov 13, 1952
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