Show NEGRO GOES TO PRISON Theodore Kennedy Gets 15 Years For Shooting White Boy Over Trivial Quarrel Special to The Tha Ogden March 7 Fifteen years rears In the prison for assault with Intent to murder was the sentence given Theo Theodore Theodore Theodore dore Kennedy a negro In the district court today Kennedy shot ahot Wallace Ly Lyons Lyons Lyons ons a young white boy In a quarrel over the negros right to seat himself at atthe atthe atthe the same name table with Lyon at a local restaurant Kennedy had pleaded not guilty and was waiting trial when his victims condition suddenly became pre precarious precarious carious canons Fearing he ho might be charged with murder Kennedy hastened to change his plea Young Lyons Is IB now hovering between life Ute and death and physicians say he ho will never fully recover In pronouncing ing sentence Judge J A Howell took Into consideration Lyons present con condition condItion 4 The shooting occurred on December 15 Lyons was eating In a Twenty L fourth street restaurant when Kennedy entered and seated himself at the same table Lyons resented his familiarity and rose to leave when the negro at attacked attacked attacked tacked him Lyons had his assailant on the floor and was choking him when tho negro drew a revolver and fired pointblank the ball passing through the neck n ck narrowly missing both the spinal column and ard the jugular vein Kennedy was later lafer arrested under a bed bedIn bedIn bedin In a friends home |