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!Wasrgoner Found Guilty. j11; The jury in the case of Win. Wag* | ag» I!*1 goner, venued to Owen county for;1‘ trial, brought in a verdict of guilty ofintos ’ murder in the first degree, on Friday ! d■ I i*■ niurning. and he was sentenced to im-j itI Is : prisonment for life. I ca’* Fight years ago, the 10th day of Oc- j V1i f} (lt;0 . toiler, Clara Waggoner, wife of the de-1 .v , fendant, was found dead in a cistern ■ gr (i j on the premises where she resided, j su near Newark. Marks upon her throat; r . indicated strangulation as the cause of;1 death. Waggoner had not lived with :1* | her for several years, and had not been ' fod j seen in the neighborhood for a year, ti2 1u Suspicion pointed to him, but he was I m* ^ t(JC not arrested, the evidence not being JT J'sufficient to convict. ■1(-‘ | lie was indicted by the grand jury tl1t! rested in Monroe count v. The evi-;®,1• *i lt;lence on \% liieli he was convicted waserdeinrestvlt;IQi . ^i! purely circumstantial, and had it not; cc■ i |1 j been for the testimony of an inmate of i tl i the Spencer jail who swore that Wag-1 lft i goner admitted in his presence, last i ' 301 Saturday, his presence in this county ‘ at the time of the murder, and also I ie i that he bribed a relative for $50.00 to I ns.iePl- icommit the crime, the prosecution!•would have failed to make a case, as ; ! Itomona, in Owen county, where he | C(! was seen on horseback going south the j p | evening before the murder, was as j p ra I near the scene of the crime as lie could I1(11 be traced. jj Clara Waggoner, the murdered worn-1 eti ’ an. was deformed and almost idiotic, ;i She wobbled as she walked, and had a *os°'idefect in her speech. The accusedju I claimed to have married her while in- iot j toxicated, and he had consulted sev-ne j pr;1] nttornevs about a diveuve. He left, iP j P
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Worthington Times
Worthington, Indiana, US
Tue, Nov 14, 1899
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