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Show JUDGE NOT GUILTY IN SLAYER. CHARGE Jury Returns Verdict in Second Trial -Vl.tOVKl-ANO, O., Vtr 1H.A verdict of not utility was returned bv the Jury today In theierotfid tHl nf Judjr William Wil-liam II. McHurtnon, Wiarxed with the murder of liaruM Kay here lat May. It waji MoOannon'n second trial. The flrnt ended in a diMiKTeed jury. Knicy wni ahnt ami fatally wounded shortly after midnight on May 7, on a wt reet eorner. John W. Jnyrw Raid he remembered hearing Mctiammon and KKy arK'iln? Jutprlor to the shooting. shoot-ing. other witnesses, Ineludlnir several policemen. tet ifled that Jnvce wan drunk and leaning aRatnnt a pole whn thev hurried to t lie scene after the shootiiiK Several identified MiMiannon 11 h the "biK man' m-eii hurrylnn from the ni'ene. Minn Mary K. Neety, prartlffsl nurs. clilef H-itnefifl for the mate, refused to texllfv to ensenttal details at the second sec-ond trial. iShe alo declared from the stand several times that "J iidjje M-Cannon M-Cannon is not cuilty of the murder of Harold Kairy. The sudden change of front hy thta witness and the strons; alibi testimony Introduced by the defense combined to break flown the chain of evidence forced by the state. Meilnnnon announced he wouJi.rc- pSum -trrsptaTtiRs Thief justit'e of the ! municipal courts, from which he voluntarily vol-untarily absented himself shortly after j ho wa Indicted. |