| Show NOT NOr FI FELONIoUS Ln US INTENT WRY or at State Sinia Prison At the Inquest IteM yesterday after atter afternoon noon at tIme state l ol the coroners Jury composed lt ot o J 7 I fl Smith J ct Jlmes James anti L I J 3 Iones II iii the tho neighborhood ot of the prison IC no ConvIct Johl or of th the chars charge or of murdering M 31 M McCormick who attacked him Sunday afternoon II in inthe the prison laundry ns as follows We the or of the JUr jury find that the decca deceased ed Mike Ike McCormick came came to his death train wounds In with some sharp Instrument In inthe tie the hands ot of one Ora 1 a fellow prisoner the tho said John Gray Oray thel then and and and with without without there acting In out felonious intent This verdict relieves Gray Oray ot of punIsh punIshment meat ment by the courts hut but the warden Wil redu reduCe e him a grade to n a third grale rade prisoner and cut oe tiff hits hIs gool time lie ho hn had earned for tor reduction ton tion ot of sentence Assistant orney conducted the 1 Ion of eel Pr Dr A C Young Toting the testified M that the Ohio wounds received b by McCormick were necessarily fatal Gray Omy the I testified wih wIth n a copious COliOUs of tears and of emotion that the I dec deceased hll written IL leter letter accusing him him of guilty of n a crIme In prIson and Gray Omy took to I task or I It calling hint him a dirty cur Me Mc McCormick Cormick replied ly by l a violent assault on Orua Orn him down clown twice and cutting hll the che chest t Then anI Gray grabbed the knife anti got Kot II In hil his work I 1 knos I dill dId It he be said mid but r I cut hIm anti ran out What he bc care came ot of the Otto knife winess witness did not know knowle knowlie le lie said he hind bad burnett UJ up his bloody blood after the affray Three other prIsoners Mired Curts Curtis anti and corroborated Orny Grays testImony War uTeri 10 how Deputy Stowe and Guard Peterson testified to tD the tough tora forma ton tiomi ot of makeup Ind and that he hc had been n a bul nn anti a hn hard roan to handle PIta warden test testified cl to find finding nl ing McCormick In the or of the tho on clerk where the prisoner oner had wale 11 ed and In n a comatose e condit thin The later tatter claimed to have hac done the cutting himself The Jur jury then ro re returned turell turned theIr verdict Om Grays nr are supposed to be belving living In San Francisco Ial meal name Is Babcok Babcock II nail lie he came cam originally from Erie In Pa Hut he refused d to tn gIve nn any information 01 as to hil his connections he hc finally asked that Miss 11 Myrtle Stafford of Chicago be wih wHIt fie funeral was hell beM this In the unison prison chapel with Mrs tl I I n IT In and the remains were In the prison burying |
