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Show FIELDS GUILTY OF MURDER OF GORDON CAIRO, 111.. Dec. 11. 'After three hours deliberation a jury tonight found Harvey R. Fields' guilty of tho murder of Dr. E. E. Gordon and fixed his punishment pun-ishment at twenty years in tho penitentiary. peni-tentiary. Fields shot Dr. Gordon as the latter was leaving a hospital on September 1. 1913. The plea of tho dofonso was that L'iclds's mind had become deranged by storios of the alleged abuse of hia wifo by Dr. Gordon. Attorneys for tho defons argued that the conduct of tho physician toward Fields 'a wifo and mottior had made tho defendant insano, that he did the shooting shoot-ing while in that state, and that ho is yet of unsonnd mind. |