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Jim Nutt Is Found Guilty

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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ATCHISON, Kas., May 16.- The jury in the caso of Jim Nutt, who raudo a niurderous assault upon Ieonard Coleman and Mrs. Jessie Payton in thig county last February, has rendered a verdiot oí guilty, in the Coleman oase. The jury was out forty minutes. The extrema penalty on thls charge is ten years in the penitentiary. Nutt was appatontly unmoved by the verdict. He made no statement, but it is expected that the usual spplication for a new trial will be made. I The defense was insanity, the sarae that I set him íree after he had killed Uukes at I Uuiontown, Pa., ten years ago. In that case he waylaíd hi3 victim and shot him without warning.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News