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Show I SLUM'S NECK SHDIf Off Youth Who Brutally Killed His Father With an Ax Declared Insane. The Verdict Wai Received With Much Disfavor In Spokane, There Being Talk of Tar and Feathere for Jurymen. Spokcano, Wash. "Not guilty by reason of Insnnlty," was tho verdict returned by llio Jury In tho caso of Sidney Slonno, tho 18-yoarold boy charged with tho brutal murdor of hla father,- James P. Sloane, a plonoor tnorchnnt "of Spokano. Tho trial, which has lasted flvo weeks, wbb the longest and most sensational sen-sational over held In Spokano court. It was clearly proved 'that on tho aright of August 20th tho boy 'camo behind be-hind his father, who was eating a midnight mid-night lunch, and struck htm six tcrrl-tie tcrrl-tie blows on tho head with an axo; then took money from tho dead man's pocket, picked up tho corpso, carried It down stairs, loaded it Into a wheel barrow, trudlcd It about two blocks and dumped tho body of his fathor la1 an alloy. Returning, ho mado clumsy fforts J.Q waBh tliu blood ..from ths rugs and lloor of tho room, lie att, part of au.applo and calmly wont to bed. When tho body was found next morning he was quickly arrested and oonfoBsed tho crime, llu said ho became be-came enraged at things hts fathor said about his mother. Tho dofcuso claimed tho boy haa shown signs of disunity from Infancy. No verdict over given by a Jury in Spokano county has been received With more evident disfavor than that In tho Sloano cubo. An Insanity vor- Idtct wbb almost boyond tho hopes ol even tho prosecution and, tho result was heard with surprise and grcotcd With dissatisfaction hero. There Is wild talk of tar and feathors for tho Jury and lynching for tho boy, but no real danger that either will occur. After tho verdict of "not guilty," young Sloano nroao as if to lcavo the court room but was sloppod. His attorney, at-torney, P. C. Robertson, desires that tho boy shall bo sent to tho lnimne asylum and this will doubtless bo done. |