Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-11 | Page 1 | Is Given Life Imprisonment

IS 18 GIVEN CIVEN LIFE I IMPRISONMENT T Mrs M rs Margaret Hossack Convicted of Killing Her Husband HAD QUARRELED 80 no YEARS YEA tS Tile lime Crime Vu Commuted Willi an nil H Saul In Hum to Secure n Ii Des Dell MoInes Ia la April 11 Mm Mar Margaret garet Hossack of ot wife of ot a wealthy farmer Was vas found CountI guilty this morning of ot the murder of ot her husband on tho the night ot of December 1st und urn sen sentence sentence tence was Walt fixed fixell by the tho Jury at life Im Imprisonment In iii the th penitentiary For l or two thu tIme trial has Ims been progress progressIng lug Ing In imi Warren under the gUld guid guidance anco ance of oC time the ablest attorneys attorn ys yn In iii tho time Stute State Tho The evidence was all circum circumstantial stun stall till tia I IOn On thc thu night of ot lIce Dec 1st John Hossack Hoss ck i and lila his wife retired for tor the night and tind about 1039 IOa Mrs Irs Hossack declares that she was awakened by a n flash of oC light Upon getting out of at bed Jet she oho found her husband had hM been hit on tho time head with an un ae Two were vere made one by lIy the sharp edge l dS und tho time other with the time blunt end ond of or the use ae which was hidden the granary Death ensued in an hour The State Stute evidence that for tor thirty years Irs the tho couple had quarreled and ammil that previous to the murder they had har a II dispute dl over one of ot the thc children of ot which time nine are lire living It was as also maintained by the time prosecution that Mrs Hossack had as liS an un object the te to curing of oC time the estate tl