Show If GUILTY Of MURDER Ii i IN fIRST i DEGREE mm t it Austin Francis Convicted of Kill Killing KillIng M f ing Winona Newton Fifteen Fifteen teen Years Old Did 1 I WAS A MOST BRUTAL AFFAIR i Forced to III Drink Add dl tf Which rolling to In lUll Kill Her at ni Once Ollre lie Chocked HIT to Death Kansas City Dec 20 Austin Fran J mn da cl with the murder r u it 1 month i ago ngo of o Newton NeWlon eWtOn IS Iii years old his hI f I 1 att thin IiI afternoon found of ot In hi the th Unit degree The Th murder ot Of tho the Newton was wall fl t most matt brutal Slit She lived with her hr father i and younger In a hOUR housa housaIn hOURIn In n the outskirts of ot the city ell They The were miserably ly poor IOOr he had bid boon been bl en IU III owl Francl hud promised to her money with which to tl mee ce n physician They met mot late lato In the evening II month 80 go at a 11 8 ilia II bridge near the thc girls home lonie She was not heard o ot until following Ing morning when her body hollY WIlS m a found badly cut out and bruised tint weighted down t ly hy y a 1 atone that rested re lell on eu her hll head In the creek be lie below betow tow low the thu bridge At the trial trini it II disclosed losell that Francis hud hitti given the girl carbolic acId aYn that It tt was witt the ha needed He Ill forced her to rInk drink the tho th Muff Bluff When It failed to kill kilt hr h I at nt onlo I I and sh he screamed ho he her and niti I her with a rock He lie drugged the body b dy to ti the tho bottom of 1 the creek I and there thore still renting fearing that t the die was Vila alive and might cry placed lM hO 6 great tone stone over her hr lien i Francis who hn IH III u it switchman 27 21 1 years old oh wati iati arrested on the tho day duy following tim murder lie He ed his Innocence Th arrest and tnt conviction of ot Fronds within n it month of ot the commission l nt ot his hl crime marks one uno of ot the th swiftest trials In tho the history hili tory of ot criminal cases III la tills this city eit |