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Show REVENGE Slayer of a Boy is Found . Guilty of Man- , ' ? slaughter. ':'1 " . I Redding, Cal.. Deer 30 A mother's Implacable determination to nvengo the death of her son resulted today in tho conviction ofpanlel Fleming, a former Southern Pacific railroad policeman, po-liceman, oi tho murder of Goorgo val-lier, val-lier, n youth of Tacoma, Wash. Fleming Flem-ing was found guilty af manslaughter alter the jury had been out more than 12 hours. Valllei and a companion, Harry Goble, were found unconscious on I the roof of a sleeping car of a South- , ern Pacific passenger train that drew . Into Redding from, tho north, In Aug- ' ust of last year. Both had been badly injured about the head. Valuer Val-uer died on the way to tho hospital and Goble, after several weeks In a hospital, emerged with his memory a blank. A coroner's Juiy accepted the theory oi railroad men mat the youtliB had collided with a tunnel entrance whilo "beating their way." Mrs. Valier, mother of the dead boy, caused his body to be exhumed aud marks wero found on the throat. She spent a fortune searching tor evidence and finally Fleming was arrested, ar-rested, but his preliminary examination examina-tion resulted in the dismissal of tho murder (barge. Mrs. Vallier employed em-ployed special counsel, gathered more evidence, and the grand jury of Slias-to Slias-to county Indicted Fleming. The Indictment In-dictment was quashed on a technicality. technical-ity. Not despairing, the mother again caused Fleming's arrest early in the present year, and lie was brought to trial In October. The Southern Pacific company wad lavish in the matter of expense In standing by its former employe, and the county of Shasta found its treasury treas-ury depicted by more than -10.(100 because of the trial, which consumed twelve weoks. |