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Show YOUTHFUL SLAYERS FREED. Boy Who Killed Idaho Rancher Too Young to Comprehend Crime. Twin Falls, Idaho. Harold and Lynn Lovelace, boys 12 and 11 years old, respectively, were acquitted on Thursday of. a charge of murder for the killing of Prof. F. T. Hamill, near here last August. The jury deliberated deliber-ated less than two hours. Hamill was a school teacher and was spending his summer vacation on a homestead some miles from Twin F'alls. It was claimed Hamill caught the Lovelace boys robbing his cabin. They made their escape, but later returned re-turned and at the point of a gun held Hamill up. The school teacher grappled with Harold, who, during the struggle, called to his younger brother to shoot. This Lynn did and Hamill's head was blown off. |