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Show P1DD JURY UNABLE TO REACH VERDICT Special to The Tribune. . TACOMA, Wash., Sept. Z. A jury in the superior court here which for the past two days has been trying Georare Pidd, the Salt Lake soldier who last year received re-ceived a life sentence in the federal prison at Fort Leaven worth for murderous assault as-sault on Lawrence Berquist and who was afterward released, this morning reported they had disagreed. Prosecuting Attorney Fred Remann announced an-nounced that a new trial will be held. Pidd is charged with assault in the first degree. He was tried before a general court martiai on December 27 In Camp Lewis seven days after the assault and was given a life sentence in Fort Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, and the sentence waa approved. On June IS of this year he was released from the federal prison by order of the judge advocate general of the army on technical grounds. |