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Show HOWARD CONVICTED- ,H Jury Declares Him Guilty of Complicity In the Murder of Governor Geebel.. The jury in the case of James Howard, How-ard, on trial at Frankfort, Ky., for alleged al-leged complicity in the Goebel assassination, assassi-nation, rendered a verdict of guilt, with the penalty fixed at death. The jury retired at 9:10, and returned with its verdict at 9:47. The courtroom was crowded with spectators almost trembling trem-bling with suppressed excitement. The verdict was a surprise as the general public were led to believe that the jury was divided on the question of guilt or innocence of the defendant "Jim" Howard, as he is commonly known in the mountains, is a strikingly striking-ly handsome man, 44 years of age, and would be one of the last to be pointed out by a stranger as the man on trial. He had the record, however, of being the leader of the Howard-White faction fac-tion in the Baker-Howard feud in Clay county, in which numerous lives were taken. He had killed George Baker and was suspected of the assassination of Tom Baker, who was killed after the same fashion as Goebel, and Howard's How-ard's friends believe that these facts have much to do with the making of the verdict sentencing him to the gallows. |