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Show ZIGICH SENTENCED TO COUNTY JAIL Charge of Murder Eeduced to Involun tary Manslaughter Killing an Accident The f rst degree murder harge aa nst Steve Zigich who shot and mor tally wounded his fnend I ke Claich at Bingham, November 1 waa reduced to irvoluntary manslaughter vesttrda and Z gich pleaddd gmlty before Judge M L Ritch e m the d strict court lie vas sentenced to three months in the countv -jail The d str ct attornev recommended such a d sposition of 2 gich s case out 1 rung that the c rcumstances surround ing the killmg were almost ent relv ac cidental Zigich and tla ch were lr nkn g n a B ngham saloon when another n an en tered and quarreled with Cla ch Tho two belligerents dec ded to f ght t out with the r bare hands and so hande I the r guns to Zigich for safekeep ng Dur ng the fight that followed 7ieicb. in drunken bravado it is bel eved f red one of the guns several times One of the bullets struck Claich n the leg peritomt s set in and he died a month later |