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* THEMETZNER MURDERHJulius Metzner Found Guilty of Murder in the Second Degree and Sentencedmatasjr.alfj:n:n-ro-on-tie.ci-re-ia yno-avefor1 trS*To Twenty-Five Years in the Penitentiary— Can be Reduced to less than fourteen Years by Good Behavior.In the Metzner trial at Dakota City, last week, a sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary was imposed. This can be cut down by pood behavior to thirteen years and nine months. The grand jury returned an indictment of murder in the first degree, and • the prisoner plead guilty, The court then took evldcncc, as it was by law bound to do, to determine the extent of g-nilt of the defendant. The Btate introduced Sheriff Hacklcy, Luther Strait, A* D. Bicknell, Marshall Sheldon, CL H. Brown, Jr., V. L. Baker and Lt. A-Wilson as witnesses. The evidence of all the witnesses is still in shorthand, so wc can not g-ive it exact, yet It tended only to show the killing of Night-ivatch McMillan, the finding of the body, the subsequent arrest of the murderer, and hts actions after beingrt1 fa I M Tn It ill 4 ViQT*^ tfiAsidlt;comeicity ibest ithe ITheperfcchorMr,hisabov.sintfcorelentit ithensonfbeddeslt;thel(spabesi—Dbcr Thi setweeIheadipallarJ
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Humboldt County Republican
Humboldt, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 17, 1901
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Carolyn L.
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