Show SLOANS NECK SAVED BY JURY Youth Who Brutally Killed His Father With an Ax Declared Insane The Verdict Was Received With Much Disfavor In Spokane There Being Talk of Tar and Feathers for I Jurymen Snokeane WashNnt guilty by reason of Insanity was tho verdict returned by the Jury In tho case of Sidney Sloan the 18yearold boy charged with the brntnl murder of his father fumes F Slounc a pioneer merchant of Spokane The trial which tins lasted five i weeks was the longest and most sensational sen-sational ever held In Spokane court It was clearly proved that on tho night of August 29th the boy came behind be-hind his father who was eating a midnight mid-night lunch and struck him six terrible terri-ble blows on the lead with an axe then took money from the dead man pocket picked up the corpse carried It down stairs loaded It Into a wheelbarrow wheel-barrow trudled it about two blocks and dumped the body of his father In an alley Returning ho made clumsy efforts to wash tho blood from tae rugs and floor of tho room He ate part of an apple and calmly went to bedWhen When the body was found next raorniiiK he was quickly arrested aid confessed the crime lie said he became be-came enraged at things his father said about his mother The defense claimed tho boy line shown signs of Insanity from Infancy No vonllct ever given by a Jury ld Spokane county him been received with more evident disfavor than thIn th-In the Sloani cane mAn Insanity vcr j diet was almost beyond i l the hopes of even the prosecution ami the result was hear1 with surprise and greeted with dissatisfaction here There is wild talk of tar and feathers for the Jury and lynching for the boy but no real danger that either will occur After the verdict of not guilty young Sloam arose as If to leave the court room but was stopped His attorney at-torney F C Robertson desires that ho boy shall be sent to tho Insane asylum and this will doubtless bo done |