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Show JURY FAILS TO CONVICT MAY OF MURDER Insufficient Evidence that Ute Indian Buried Infant Alive Is Held PUEBLO, Colo., Nov., 17. (CP) . Plat May, Ute Indian, is today on his way bnck to the Indian reservation reserva-tion near Durnngo, the white man's government having failed to convict him of a chnrge of burying his infant in-fant child alive with its mother. The trial took place in federal court here and late yesterday Judge Foster Symes directed the jury1 to return a verdict of not guilty after the evidence in the ease had been presented. May was supposed to have wrapped wrap-ped bis live child in a blanket with its mother, who had died in giving birth to it and hurled the two together to-gether at the direction of Mormon Joe, his father-in-law, and a Ute medicine man. According to Judge Symes there was sufficient evidence to show-that, show-that, the child had been buried alive. The history of the Ute Indians is mostly a mystery to the white meiv. Very little has been written of, their costumes or tribal legends. Although Plat May is known ns an intelligent tribesman, be proved to know little of the ways of a white man. and when he was feed yestcdny be failed to "savvy" for some time. |