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Show I If PF1SC1IDI WILL GETH TRIAL Higher Court Decides Evidence Evi-dence Based on Work of Bloodhounds Unreliable. SPKINGFIELD, HI., Feb. 21. Ray Pfanschmidt, convicted in tho AdaniB county circuit court of murder, won in tho supreme court of tho stale today when the lower court's finding ivas reversed, re-versed, ou a writ of error. He will have a now trial. Ono of the points which won a now trial for tho defendant was the decision by the upper court that the conclusions oi bloodhounds wero too unroliablo to bo accepted as evidence Bloodhounds takou to tho scone of tho crime wero said to have followed a trail to Pfanschmidt Pfan-schmidt 's homo. This evidence was held by the upper court to bo in error. QUINCY, 111., Feb. 21. Tho crime of winch Bay Pfanschmidt was convicted convict-ed was a most revsome oue- Four persons, Charles Pfanschmidt, his lather, his mother, Blancho Pfanschmidt, Pfan-schmidt, a sister and Miss Emma Kaempon, a school teacher boardine with tho Pfanschinidts, were found doaa in tho ruins of the Pinnschmidt houso, oloven miles southeast of Quincy on isoptomber 29, 1012. The bodies, although al-though badly burned in tho firo which destroyed the house, showed signs of having been beaten , and chopped. It was the testimony of tho experts at tho trial that the" four victims wore killed and their bodies burned. Ray Pfanschmidt, then not twenty-one twenty-one years of age and the onl surviving member of the family, was arrested for the crime. Tho state made an effort to provo that Pfnnschmidt, heavily in debt and eugaged to marry Esther R-ecder, killod his father, mother and sister in order to inherit tho Pfanschmidt estate and be the beneficiary of the insurance car-rip-l by his father and mother. |