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Show IN SECOND DEGREE Charles Davenport is Convicted Con-victed of Murder IN VEllY SHORT OEDEK. The Jury Was Not Out Thirty Minutes The Defendant Heard the Verdict With no Emotion Whatever Unconcerned All Through Sentence Will be Paestd on Saturday Next. Arguments by the attorneys in the Pavenport murder case occupied the whole torenoon today in the First District Dis-trict court. The murder case against Hallet and Smith has been set for April 3d. On opening court this afternoon the judge delivered a very fair and impartial impar-tial charge to the jury in the Davenport Daven-port murder case, one that seemed to be satisfactory to the attorneys on both sides. There was no objection offered to it. The jury retired and in less than thirty minutes returned with their ver diet guilty of murder in the second degree. Davenport on hearing it read chewed his tobacco as contentedly as he has done during the whole trial and apparently was not affected by it. He has been the most unconcerned party in the whole trial and once dozed off to sleep while his attorneys were working with tfeeir every energy in his behalf. Sentence will be passsd on Saturday morning next The "lowest sentence that can be passed is ten years and the judge may if he chooses sentence him to imprisonment imprison-ment for life. It is not expected that the judge will be lenieat with the murderer mur-derer as it is plainly evident that he is hardened and deseiying of severe punishment. Itcaine out in evidence that other men than Woods have lost their lives at Davenport's hands. The Logan Paul obtaining money unJer false putense3 case came on for trial. The jary was instructed to find a verdict m not auilty, it being decided that to sell a $10.00 ring for $50.09 is not an indictable offense when the ring at the time of the sale is in sghof the kuver Iw'i t f f ) I t torro UslngTuffuT of The D8patcu today that will interest in-terest his many friends, and t hose who contemplate bail 'ing, repairing or modifying their I'omes, or in fact, any department of the household, either in or out. |