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Show KILLED SON; MUST HANG Former Circus Performer Guilty ot Murder in First Degree. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20. John Martin Mar-tin Spyer, a circus performer, formerly of New Orleans, who killed bis young son 'while showing in Kansas City two years ago, was today found guilty of murder in the first degree. At his first trial he was given a sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary, and appealed. Officers had gone to the circus tent to serve a warrant upon Speyer, charging charg-ing him with assaulting a young girl, and a mob threatened to lynch him, when he broke away, cut his chllcrfe throat with a raior and then tried to commit suicide. Speyer said he killed the boy to save him from disgrace. |