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Show CONVICTED IN POISON CASE BENTON, Ark., Dec. 2 HU!) 1 Counsel for Mark H. Shank, Akron, Ohio attorney, today prepared his imposed last night by a jury which found Shank guilty of charges of fatally poisoning four persons. Shank, whom defense attorney contended was insane, had confessed con-fessed that he gave Alvin Colley, Mrs. Ethel Colley and two of their children poisoned grape juice at a family picnic. He said they "knew too much" about an Akron case involving one of Shank's clients. Mrs. Shank fainted as the verdict ver-dict of death in the electric chair at Turner, Ark, was read. She was carried from the courtroom on a stretcher. Shank was calm, almost disinterested. |