Show MAZZA GUILTY Of MANSLAUGHTER Jury fury ury Brings in Verdict After Being Opt for I Hours PURSUIT BY AN AVENGER STORY OF JEALOUS LOVE FIG FIGURES FIGUR FIGURES URES UR S IN MURDER CASE A verdict finding Frank Mazza guilty of ot voluntary manslaughter for killing Jo ph Sept 5 1905 1906 was returned by the jury in the case oase yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon The Jury had been out about tu hours The peculiar and con conflicting conflicting character of the testimony made the case C an hard one for the Jury cry to handle It Is understood the Jurors were divided as between murder in In the second degree and voluntary man manslaughter manslaughter slaughter the majority being In favor of the lesser offense ottense Judge Armstrong will pronounce sen sentence tence lence once at 10 Thursday morning The penalty is one to ten years in the state prison There will be no attempt to ae tC c cure a new trial Mazza Asks Protection A story In connection with the case Is told by Assistant County Attorney Job P PLon Lyon Lon Mr Lyon says Mazza and the girl who became Mrs Mazza afterward called on him March 8 1905 and said they want wanted wanted wanted ed protection from a man who had fol d them from Colorado As they told the story to me the girl had been brought to Colorado from Italy by this other man says Mr Lyon She Sho lived at Lafayette Colo Cob with the other man for two years ears He avoided a mar marriage marriage riago with the girl on 00 one pretext or an aix another other until Mazza came along and fell in inlove Inlove inlove love with the girl Mazza and the girl ran away awa to Salt Lake together and the tiLe theother other man followed When they told their story stor to me I told them the only thing for them to do was to get married marrien as tiit would give Mazza a legal right to protect the woman I went with them to the county clerks office and assisted them in getting a marriage license Revenge Headed Off HI I met Mazza on the street eight or orten orten orten ten days later and asked him if they had been married yet He said they had not and added that the priest wanted 3 for performing the ceremony which was more money thoney than they had I urged him not to put it off longer than necessary A few days after this the pursuer called on me in the office and declared that he lie liea a was vas ready to marry the girl then I told him he was too late as Mazza and the girl Irl had got a license I J advised him further that he should not try to revenge himself as we stand for that sort of thing here and that the best thing for lor him to do was to go back to Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado So far as I know he took my ad advice adice advice vice ice I have nave never seen s n him since This man was not I recognized Mazza as one of my callers when I saw him during the trial HAs As I understand It Mazza comes from froma a different part art of Italy from most of Italians Italian here and he had no close I I friends among his countrymen The La Lafayette Lafayette fayette man on the other hand was a achum achum achum chum of many other Italians here and andI I am told these men lost no chance to Insult Mazzas wife It was this conduct on their part that led to the shooting of I think |