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Show JURIES un VARIED VIEWS Differ on Larceny of Williams. Convicted of Petit Larceny Tuesday and Grand Larceny Lar-ceny Wednesday. Value of Articles Stolen Said to Be of' Inverse Batio to Grades of Crime. George Williams, convicted of petit larceny lar-ceny on Tuesday, waa yesterday found guilty of grand larceny. Tho two verdicts show a peculiar working on tho part of tho two Juries. Tho crime for which Williams was tried yesterday was tho theft of a cow on December De-cember 3. 1001. The cow belonged to one Frederick Nucsllm. Ho was tried on Tuesday Tues-day for stealing a buggy, worth much more. It Is said, than the cow. Kach jury found Williams guilty, but tho men who fcund that ho ntolo the buggy said that It wa.i only petit larceny, while tho men who believe lie stole the cow say It was grand larceny. Which ever way It Is, Williams Wil-liams will get a grand larceny sentence fivom Judge Armstrong, tho date for lm-pcflng lm-pcflng sentence being set for April 5, Doputv Sheriff Andrew Smith arrested Wllllamr and worked up tho caso against lilm. A great deal of miscellaneous plunder, plun-der, most of which, It is alleged, was stolen, was found nt tho man's homo. |