Show E PAPER JO MAN I f N OF f M MURDER R I t COLBY f FACES A JAil f FO M Term of af 1 10 d to 12 Years I Is Penalty for Slaying A. A C. C Thomas Who I She She Says Insulted Her HerBy By liy Associated Iren Prat to The Th Telegram THOMPSON FALLS Mont Dec 6 Miss Miss Edith Colby a newspaper reporter was found guilty Of f murder in the second decree g gr here ode J r r a and d killing AX L 1 C. C C. C Thomas Thom Ii d politician The penalty is t ten n to twelve years n the I r Miss l Colby 44 years old shot Thomas September 28 last after Thomas had passed her in the street without heeding heed iris ing her demand that he be apologize for foran foran foran an an alleged insult the day before Miss Colby alleged Thomas had called her a a. woman woman when she reprimanded him for withholding news when she visited him in her ca capacity capacity capacity ca- ca I as s a f for r a. a a newspaper in Thompson Falls I She asserted that John C C. Manire 1 editor of the paper and and A. A S. S Ainsworth Ains- Ains I worth its publisher had head urged her to tomake tomake tomake make Thomas apologize and both were wele arrested on charges of having Instigated instigated instigated gated the murder Manire was ac ac- ac- ac quitted Ainsworth's case is pending The defense sought to prove that Miss 1 Colby whose mother Mrs Jane I. I P. P Coolidge of ot Worcester Mass testified testified testified fied to indications of hereditary insanity insanity ity was mentally deranged and Irresponsible irresponsible Irre Irre- because of the alleged insults heaped upon her by Thomas The defense asked the jury to acquit Miss 1 Colby or return a first degree I verdict punishable by death |