Show POISON IS MEN LIFE L M HEIGHT FORMER METHO DIST MINISTER GOES TO PRISON FOR MURDER M mrs rs elsie accomplice in crime sentenced to 35 years in illinois penal institution mount vernon III lawrence al hight fo former n ier methodist Aloth odist pastor must oserve erve a life sentence inthe in the illinois penitentiary and mrs mra elsie thirty five years for the alie murder of wilford A jury brought in the verdict with the foregoing sentences the ilu jury ry had deliberated on the case for approximately eleven hours the main question among the according to about the courtroom was whether or not the former minister should hang both right alight and mrs airs took the verdict calmly the pastor seemed resigned to sentence mrs sweets n expressed gratification at the fact she had not been given a life sentence this was the final episode of the perfect love which the minister and the minors miners wife had built up for months he be wooed her clandestinely and bild in the end according to the states evidence it resulted in the poisoning polso ning of mrs airs sweetens Swee tins husband the ministers wife mrs anna A right also died from arsenic poisoning ng and a charge of murder in connection with her death stilt still hangs bangs over tile the two S tates states attorneys announced they would not take up the second murder case illel immediately mediately edia tely 1 the states attorney also alio said he aas ns very much displeased with the leniency en lency of the jurors we built up a perfect case against the two I 1 am displeased with stich buch a verdict let frank thompson one of the prosecutors said in th the closing arguments both thompson and his assistant matle made pleis that hight and mrs airs be sent to the gallows for the murder slights defense was based around insanity ns anity ind and mrs airs had bad contended she had bad no part in a the affair I 1 i i Jill immediately mediately 1 after the pair vim were arrested i in 11 c connection on with the murder they hey confessed to the crime slights confession was read into the records but mrs airs repudiated hers and st it was stricken from the testimony Ilo however wever the state en engineered ine cred a coup when lun the dead man mans q father testified that mrs had confessed t to 0 him that she killed and after hight had urged iier ner to to do it |