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Show GUSTALD1 ACQUITTED; SLEW IJEIECKEI Spectators Applaud Verdict Until Judge Stops Them; Shooting Held Justifiable. Special to The Tribune. NEPHI, Oct. 31. "Nol guilty" was the verdict announced by the Jury in the Gustaldi murder case at 7 o'clock last night. The crowd that thronged the courtroom demonstrated tnclr approval ap-proval bj; applauding, but the manifestation manifesta-tion was quickly stopped by Judge Greenwood. The decision comes as a termination of a case which has attracted attract-ed Interest throughout the state. II. Gustaldi. on the morning of January Jan-uary 11, mil. according to evidence, shot and killed W. A. Palmer, an itinerant photographer, In the doorway oi the depot at Eureka. Gustaldi slew Palmer after hearing that the latter had paid attentions to his wife. Sentiment was so strongly in his favor in Eureka that. It was Impossible to find an unbiased Juior in that end of the county. Ills acquittal comes as a confirmation of public sentiment that Gustaldi was jus-tilled jus-tilled in .shouting down the pian whom il was shown had wrecked his houio. Judge O. W. Powers of Salt. L;7kc defended Gustaldi in the trial. The first hearing took place in June. 1011. and Judge Powers secured a. continuation at that time on a legal point. |