Show 1 r WOMAN OMAN FOUND GUILTY KILLING OF ASSOCIATE WITH POISON WHISKY I Dr br Sarah S r rah h Ruth Dean Seri SeA to o. o Life lire in Pen at Bard Hard Labor ab r j to Br X Press t GREENWOOD GREENWOOD Miss iss Ma March cl J 3 Dr f Sarah Ruth Dean year old baby specialist Saturday was Wa convicted of the poison whisky highball hIghbaU death of 01 Dr J John nn Preston Ken Kennedy edY 41 year old Greenwood Greenw od surgeon The jury fixed her er p punishment nis m qt a at life imprisonment imprison ment at hard labor shocked Obviously the woman physician phy heard the verdict re read d with her hands handS' clenched chei in fn n her 1 lap p. p She tried to smile as she arose to go goto to a waiting roomS room room but broke into sobs i. i Half Hall an hour hour later she was Wa composed com corn posed and smiling as she returned to stand before Presiding Judge S. S SF F. F Davis for r sentence e. e The jury has found you guilty of your fixed fixed your punishment the j ge- ge said gravely gravel It If now becomes becomes be be- becomes comes my duty duty to sentence ce you to spend the r rest t of your natural natural life lite athar at athard hard har fJ labor bor in in the state penitentiary The judge asked If It she had anything to say siy The smile suddenly gone from her Continued on Page P e Two i CONVICTED CONVICTED 4 I r I t cj 5 Dr Sarah Ruth Dean JURY CONVICTS POISON KILLER Woman Physician Sobs as Judge Sentences Her Her to to I Life Term in Pen en I Continued from Pate Pace One Ups lips Dr Dean looked at her attorneys then shook hook her head keeping silent Defense to Appeal When her attorneys served notice a 3 anew anew new trial would be sought Judge Judg Davis told them to appear at 2 p. p m rn to present their motion As the defendant turned away Mrs Bessie Barry Kennedy widow of th the dead surgeon dead surgeon who charged Dr Dean with breaking up her home came into the courtroom and flung her arms arias around the neck of o District Distract Attorney Arthur Its the happiest moment of m my life said Dr Barney Kennedy brother broth broth- er of the dead man Jury Jary Hates Verdict j Several of the jurymen said they the hated to send a woman to prison fo for tor life We but w we couldn't do otherwise Under under un Un- der the instructions given us The jury had been told that con must carry either a a s sentence of dea death or life imprisonment One juryman said aid the panel ha had bad tried to read the letters Captain Franklin C. C Maull Maul of Lewes DeL sen sent Dr Di- Dean and which she introduced introduce to substantiate her story tory that she was about to marry Maull MauU after breaking her engagement to Kennedy But we couldn't decipher them the juror said |