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Show few Trial Granted . Poor Murderers Nevada .Supreme Court Interferes in the Case of Condemned Men. CARSON, New. June 2. The Supreme Su-preme court today granted a new trial to the four Humboldt county coun-ty murderers. The new trial was granted on the ground that tho jury panel was Irregular The crime for which the four men were tried was tho killing of Pat Walch last August on a Southern Pacific freight train between Wadsworth and Wlnnemucca. Walch was robbed and thrown off the train. He hung to the steps, but the robbers kicked his hands and face and then shot him four times to make him let go. He lived a fow days, and Identified Iden-tified the four men, whose names were Gorman, Roberts, Lindesmen and Se-venier. Se-venier. The latter was Just out of San Quentin, having served a term for burglary. bur-glary. After the sentence of death, Llnderman confessed that he did the killing and that the others were present pres-ent but took no hand. |