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Show NO VERDICT SECURED " ON HIS THIRD TRIAL WINFIELD. Kan.. April 14. The jury In the case of O. W. CofTelt, on trial a third time for the murder of Georce C. Montgomery, a Santa Fe railway detective, who was assassinated assassi-nated at his home here in October, 1902, reported no verdict today and was discharged. dis-charged. Montgomery had made enemies while working on a case in connection with the famous "101" ranch In southern Kansas and the prosecution endeavored to prove that Coffelt committed the crime at the instigation of others. |