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Show I VERDICT OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE HAN FRANCISCO. March 12. A verdict it murder in the first degree, tempered bv a. recommendation of tho prisoner to the j 'lemency of tho court, was returned bv a ' 'ury today in the trial of Private Thomas f J. Jordan, coast artillery. United States irmy. for tho killing of Police Sergeant .1. I P. Noltlng. whom he shot to death last I Tannary. while tho officer was endeavor- ! mg to place him under arrest for disturb- j Ing the peace. Thn jury deliberated near-'y near-'y live hours before arriving at Its verdict, which Included a suggestion to tho court I that life Imprisonment be Jmpoiod upon Jordan. |