Show Saved From the Scaffold Kansas City Austin Francis n switchman found guilty of murder In tho first degree at Kansas City In November No-vember 1905 after a trial for the murder mur-der of Wlnoua Newton his sweetheart sweet-heart aged 15 years was freed by the supremo court of Missouri which reversed the verdict of the trial court Francis is 21 years old The girls body weighted down with heavy stone was found in a dry creok upon the southern outskirts of tho city Francis was accused of forcing hnr to drink poison |