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Show oo H HE CHOKED TWO MEN TO DEATH Edwardsville, 111.. Feb 1. Geo. Bur- H ton, a wrestler, on the stand yesterday H in his own behalf in his zfrlal for M strangling two men to death with his M bare hands, detailed the circumstance. M He testified that he went with Leo M Wentz and Louis Weibrecht into a va- M cant house to sleep. He said he felt M his companions trying to rob him. H "I got my hands on Wentz's neck," H testified Burton. "I kept squeezing H Wont's throat until he dropped over M and quit struggling. Finally I found M Weibrecht 's neck and choked, him? La- H tcr I found the, men dead." H Burton Is charged with manslaugh- H |