Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-20 | Page 1 | Murder Suspect Freed by Court

HUROEH SUSPECT Justice Releases Student Suspected of Strangling Girl to Death. CAZLNOV1A, N. V., Aug. 19. Donald W. Kether of Loh Angeles, Cal., student at Cornell university, charged with murder mur-der in connection with the death uT Miss Hazel Crance of Ithaca, In Cayuga lake, July 1 f, waa on I e red rc 1 ca sed on thc ground of insuf I'lcient evidence by Supreme Su-preme Court Just ice M. H. K i!cy hero tonight, J ustice Klicy review cd tue evldcncr tli is afternoon In proeotdings on a v. rlt of habtUH corpus. An t hurl tics of Tompkins Tomp-kins county hurl ordered Hie mudont hr'd for tire September grand jury at Ithaca. Attorneys for the accused Haini'd that the prorcfidinga under which Kcih'T being held were illegal and that as yet there waa no evidence of crimp. 1'ctiier had known Mif-s Cranco but a few dajs when he invited her for a. canoe rido on Cavutt lake, from whhh Mm-never Mm-never ret'ini'd. lie claimed the bo, it v.au accidentally uplet and that he war I uiial le to rescue his cmn;MH)on. (-'ear'-'i of tie: lai.e brought to l!i:ht hj.s t mm-erf-. wbii-i contained two km-lv, a foot or m ;tnart . Tne n . .. ; l i i,K ;, ,, i : ,,,n t ;, y Syy.rr T " i T a rg U t n II t O.l f 1 1 K f.'!;ji' o; fm -, ;ili-!if.:. T.'mtp v.. r- inurl on t l,e. .-..no arid I ! e author; t ie.s alleK,..j t.i'-se i n-I.cH ',. . a. si.ru :.;),.