Show murderer melv lie sentenced to fifty years imprisonment helena mont the jury in the district court at 10 clock monday night convicted george melville the slayer of winfield guthrie of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at fifty years in the pen the crime with which mel ville was charged occurred in bald butte last may the direct cause of the trouble being the chastisement by mrs melville of guthrie s seven year old son the testimony of the victim s child materially assisted the prosecution |