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Show -'-aMaBBBBjjB-BtaT'-w IS found noun w HOST BRUTAL MURDER (iave Girl Oarbolic Acid, Thou Beat Her With a Rock. KANSAS CITY. Pec 20-Austln Fran-cls. Fran-cls. charged with tbe murder a month ago of Winona Newton 15 ears old ma sv -theart wa Ihin afternoon round guilty of murder In the llrst degree Murder Most Brutal. The murder of the Newton girl was mcst brutal Sho lived with her father and younger slsteis In a one-room house In tho ontsklrtj of tho city. They were miserably poor. Sho had been 111 and Fruncls had promised to furnish her money mon-ey with which to see a physician. They met late in the evening B month ago at a small bridge near the girl's home She was not heard of until the following morning, when her body was found, badly eiil umI brii!s-d mid weighted down by a 150-pound stbne thai rested on her head, in the i reek below the brldt-e Gives Her Carbolic Acid. At tho trial it was disclosed that Francis Fran-cis hud given the girl carbolic acid, saying say-ing that it was the medicine she needed. He forced her to drink the stuff. When r f.ilh il to 1 ill lu-r at once and She screamed, he choked her and struck her with a rock. He drajrged the body to the bottom of the creek and there. ttlll sarins; that she was alive and might cry, ph.ced the great stone over her head. Professed Innocence. Francis, who is a switchman 27 years old, was unested on the day following the murder He professed his Innocence The arrest and conviction of Francis within a month of the commission of his crime marks one of the swiftest trials in the hlstor of criminal cases In this city. |