Show u t 1 r d t j r r i. t ti J v a ar t. r aJ r l rr f y F y F j r r fr E 7 J Y e r l P M 2 r r f 4 r i 4 JY i XA i lie F. F ry 44 9 i rJ y lr ir Faces Year 20 Term in Slaving Mrs Wilma lima year old Malden Maiden Mass moth mother r of or Jimmy right was sentenced to 20 years cars in prison T Tuesday esda by br a U. U S. S court in Hamburg Germany for lor murdering her husband I Wife of Slain Sergeant v Sentenced to 20 Years MARBURG Germany Dec 28 UP UP l Mrs Wilma Vilma 23 year-old year Malden Maiden Mass mother was found guilty Tuesday of homicide homicide homicide homi homi- cide with malice aforethought for shooting her husband John She was sentenced to 20 years ears in prison The verdict was returned by a three-man three American military government government government gov gov- court which spent eight days in taking testimony and spent another week in considering its verdict The attractive Mrs mother of a year old son Jimmy admitted to the court that she shot her husband three times with a tiny Hungarian pistol but pleaded that she acted in self defense Often Otten Beat Her HerShe HerShe She said her husband often beat beather her On the night of last Sept 20 when he was shot she said he had beat her again and had threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened to kill her was shot three times One of the bullets struck his kidney kidney kidney kid kid- ney and he died 11 days later Courtroom testimony painted a bizarre picture of license and liquor in the household high lighted by testimony that l. l arbo admitted to his wife that he had conceived two illegitimate children in affairs with German girls before she arrived in German Ger Ger- man many Charged Under tinder Laws Laus One of the German girls was employed as a maid in the household while pregnant She later suffered a miscarriage Mrs was charged under both oth military government law which provides the death penalty penally for or killing a member of the armed forces and German law The German charge originally was vas first-degree first murder but later was vas reduced to homicide The military government charge also was reduced and the court found her guilty on two charges of homicide homicide homi- homi cide with malice aforethought Mrs stood rigid and impassive impassive im- im passive as Presiding ng Judge DeWitt Vitt White of Morgantown W. W Va announced announced announced an an- the courts court's verdict and sentence He told Mrs that her sentence would be served in any United States army stockade baracks barracks barracks bar- bar racks acks or federal prison Jimmy 6 will be flown home lome to his grandparents Mr and Mrs Charles Bailey of Malden Maiden Mass parents of ot Mrs Y barbo Gaines Games said The child slept through the fatal quarrel He was allowed to visit his us mother several times during the he Christmas holiday |