OCR Text |
Show FEi IS ACQUITTED I OF ijFJl CHARGE I Man Who Killed Robert Clina With Shovel Is Declared " iH - Insane. ACCUSED TRIED BEFORE JUDGE FRANK SMITH1 H Discharged Prisoner Will Re- enperate on Ranch of Friend iH Near Nam pa. Judge S. I?. Thurmau and John S, Hollo, stenographer for the Supreme court, have just returned from Cald well, Ida., where thoy have heen en gaged in the defense of Warren T. IH Fenn. Mr. Hollo's brother-in-law, who . VM killed .Robert Clino with a shovel in a IH brick kiln at Xnmpa on September 3 'H Fenn, who was formerly a resident or ijH Provo, was acquitted, his defense being jH i nsa n i ty. j 1 The contention of ihe defense was il that Fenn's insanity was produced by -H overwork, and that it took the form 1 of an unfounded Jcabusv of bis wifo. iH lie suspected her and Clino, who was l his fellow-wockman, and struck him in H a fit of jealous rage. Form's friends jH claim that his mental condition is still H far from what it oucht to be, and he IH will recuperate on the ranch of a friend. near Nnmpa before deciding as to his future movements. Fenn was tried before Judge Frank ,H Smith of the Scvouth district court of ;H Idaho, who has gained considerable ,H prominence as the Judge before whom, the alleged assassins of former Gov. H Frank Stounenbcrg have had the pre- iH liminary stages of t'icir trial. Judge '1 Smith was defeated for rt-coctton last;, 'H mouth, and will ne succeeded January 'H 1 by Judge E. L. Bryan, a Democrat. H |