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Show BOY OF 16 GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER Timothy Moynihan of New York to Be Sentenced for Killing Another Youth. X.EW YORK, Dec 21. Timothy I iloyniliaii, 36 yenrs old, was found j guilty of manslaughter in the first de-i de-i gree by a jury here tonight for having j shot and killed Henry Ayers, a lad of I his own age, on June 21 last, after a ! quarrel over a baseball game. The jury returned its verdict after deliber-: deliber-: atiug more than seven hours. Young 1 Moynihan left tho courtroom smiling ; on "his way back to the Tombs. He ; will bo sentenced on December 28. ! Moynihan declared on the witness stand that he did not shoot Ayers, a member of a rival "gang," and niain-, niain-, tained that a confession submitted to : the court was obtained by the police ' by ' 1 third-degree ' ' methods. "In charging tbe jury today Justice Goff said the defendant's age should : not be considered in arriving at a ver-! ver-! diet. Tlie shooting, according to the prose-1 prose-1 cution, resulted from a oaseball game between the teams of which Ayers and Moynihan were members. It was ! claimed the two boys had an argument over division of tlie "gate receipts 1 ' , for the game, which were in charge of ; Avers. j The prosecutor introduced evidence tending to show that Moynihan deliberately delib-erately planned the shooting of his youthful rival, and awaited a favorable ! opportunity to kill him. |