Show EX W WIFE IFE AIDS MAN ON TRIAL FOR LIFE killed wealthy rival who stole mates love knoxville tenn five years ago eugene D blanchard prominent loung business man of knoxville won as his bride the beautiful iva dearing whose starry eyed loveliness had fag as clita ted many other men today blanchard Is at liberty under ball following his conviction of the murder of harry A gervin wealthy knoxville contractor with whom the lovely mrs blanchard ad bitted she carried on a love affair for four years blanchard was found guilty by a jury of knoxville citizens after a sen national sat lonal ional murder trial his body shak ing with sobs the young business man who shot the rich contractor a year after the divorce court had written a legal finis to hie his romance with the beautiful iva dearing stood up and heard judge E U 0 G sen sentence tene him to 25 years in the penitentiary woman not in court the woman tor for whom blanchard said be he shot and killed gervin was not in court when the trial ended nor did she appear while her former bus hus bands attorneys battled to save him from the electric chair friends said she was in ln knoxville and was awaiting the outcome of tl it e trial before going away to begin life over again but blanchard did not see her he had been in jail since the slay ing four months ago and immediately after his 20 bond had been posted by relatives he left for chattanooga tenn with a cousin N 0 blanchard with whom he lived while a boy plays leading role but the beautiful woman tor for whom blanchard shot down the rich condrac tor played a leading role in ue tle cobit room drama affidavit confessing to intimacy with the former husbands husband a victim was introduced by the defense it corroborated blanchard s conten tion that he slew gervin because the latter broke up the blanchard home tie affidavit of Blane blanchard bards s former wife bad had been prepared states state s actor contended a year ago for use in blanchard s 50 alienation of affect alons suit against gervin a case which never reached court because of the slaying staying |