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INDIANS FOUND lt;GUILTY BY JURY *RecLmen Charged With Killing DruggistFn1Superior, Wis. — ()— Recommending that no capital punishment ho inflicted, a federal court jury Saturday found Jerry Pero and Paul Moore. Odanah Indians, guilty of first degree murder m the 1927 slaying of M. F. Marks, Oranah druggist.Defense counsel moved for a new trial and Judge Patrick T. Stone, deferring sentence, said he would hear new trial petitions at Madison on Oct. 4.The jury had recommended that any pleas for commutation or parole be favorably received. I vPero and Moore had been con ) i victed in a state court at Ashland in 1927 and sentenced to life terms at Waupun. They were released from the life terms, however, and granted a trial here when the federal circuit court of appeals upheld their petition that they were entitW. as Indians, to trial in federal court.The two had denied any connection with the slaying..N
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Sep 26, 1939
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