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Show UM MUSI sui HIS LIFE IN 'ff Convicted Slayer of Thoi E. White Loses on AppMf"!? to Supreme Court 4jj DECISION v UNANIMQ 3 7 Wife Jointly Indicted, N0 Liberty Under Bond,' Seeking Divorce. ' Caleb A. in low must servo a lif, p.& Icnec in the state prison for Uq f-! dcr of Thomns 15. While The sun ' court yesterday affirmed Iho judj of conviction against hiinj, 8wf fc aside as of no consequence the nno contentions of error and miscondu the part of the trial court. -i Summing up its opinion, Uie J a8' court says " 1 ndced tho ovide ' such that the jury might have f him guilty ot murder in Iho fir? I n low was charged with tW the first degree, but owing to thi ' sistonce of one juror, a verdict o ond degree murder was returned si S,U him and the court sentenced him A &n imprisonment. . Story of the Crime. Thomas IS. White was a public t !f four. He was found dead in Vis o a lonely snot south of Ninth J street on Third East street early J H' morning of October 5, 1912, ttiU ?' bullet wounds in his head. wiz?, Inlow and his wifo, Gencviovo (T. S were arrested tho following di ta charged with tho murder. A i fer chain of circumstantial evidence W1' woven nbout them. Tt was shoffi H Whito was tho onlv material it J?t against Inlow in a burglarr t ponding against Inlow. It was i too, that a woman, identified si Inlow. nngaged White's car at mi U H preceding the murder. fcUit Afrc 7nlrv lma unf hnnn l.'.J i (A I now nt liberty under $5000 bondii lWtJ is suing Inlow for divorce. , The opinion of tho supromo (a jwir brief. It sums up tho evidence, n fojr and disposes of tho contentions of argued by counsel for the appelljn: pTononncos tho judgment affirm 'liL, unanimous voice of the three No Rights Violated. Passing on all the errors t l'"' against tho trinl court's charge ( jury, tho supremo court remark! 5;,' the charge in some respects was favorable' to the defendant thi law warranted. After passing ,i tstli tho main contentions of tho ap$ nbm tho court says: (St "Notwithstanding counsel 'saw Wff. orous contention that tho record , with errors and that tho evida . wholly insufficient to warrant viction, we, aftor a careful pcrHQl tho whole record, havo becorajB n onghlv convinced that theso stalH, must "be attributed to counsel 'sjB1 their client. The record shoH' every legal right of the apndlIaB i carefully guarded and thnt tie no prejudice." M 2s o less than 12-1 separate crrorM assigned by attorneys for Inloir j going the "appeal. Tho siiprcmiB touches 011I3 on the most 'mP0n,Kn tentious, and iu none of them BTI find any relevant ground for reSJk or inlerVcrence with tho jury's Tho murder of " Eddie' VVM he was commonly known, tooijBv Sail. Lake public to a high pitch-M J fl was principal of a public itflUi Bingham, and as a hobby he vW; ' ore specimeus. Jt wns shown M had ono of the most extensive tions in the stato, but it dPvclop "r scqueiitly that many of his 5PB had been stolen from other coll- Motive Apparent. ifedfi Tho motive for the murder of it was shown by the state, uy fact that, inlow had engaged W!Bj, drive him to tho homo of Mr. H Jones on Third avenuo early on ing prior to tho murder. IpIB. legcrl to havo stolen two smtea.- of oro specimens from the bastum Til tho Jones residnuco, and he ? A quentlv charged with burglary, formation furnished to tho PSBlflg Tnlow and his wifo came Hft,Ut ham tho day before tho jnwmfl sumablv to arrange for bis MWb tho burglarv charge. The evWlBBL. troduced at tho trial tended WJf U( that Inlow spent that dav ploUff.- death of Iho witness against ;Jffnjfla was never shown coiiclusiveiN uTWr; Inlow wns actually aw.ar9.ijmi band's intention, and m 0,SWd1kK ments she nas denied .in0 , PM murder, though she is still charge of murder. A,JM,W0T Inlow was arrested as ho w. his lawyor's offico tho morningm, murder." . r.uMtt Whilo his trial wo? m pwflJBR made a daring attempt to e1il the county jail. Ho 1 tunneling through the n?J7U hi? cell on the third nAmi and would have craped LwM discovery of half a brick heloffW dow bv tho sheriff. . .. dm Ho i? still at the count be sent to the state P"sd,nJ"S-t life sentence as soon as the supremo court LcnJm. mittcd to the district court Ww, usual legnl steps taken. ;M1 f l |