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Show LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR 'HANDSOME JACK' CHICAGO, May 2. Sentence of life imprisonment for tho murder of Mrs. Emma Kraft, a Cincinnati widow, was imposed on John 73. itoetters today to-day by Judge McDonald. Koettors, who was known throughout through-out the trial as Handsome Jack, almost al-most collapsed as the .iudgo spoke the words which cut him off from free society so-ciety forever. ,rI didn't do it," wero his words as he was taken back to jail by bailiffs. "The testimony against me was perjured." Koettors was found guilt' of killing kill-ing Mrs. Kraft with a hammer in a Chicago hotel in November, 1912. She was infatuated with him and had given him money. |