| Show JURY FINDS WOr AN SLEW SON AGED 10 Mrs Cunningham Weeps Bitterly on Hearing Verdict I GIVEN LIFE TERM TER I Suspected of Killing Five J to Gain Life Lif e ei j i Insurance I j CROWN POINT POI T Ind md July 25 liP Confinement OP Confinement In prison for forthe forthe the rest of her natural life was th the sentence meted out to Mrs Anna ham Cunningham 49 year old old year Gary Cory I widow by a a. Jury In Lake county i criminal court today to It hat had found her guilty of first degree In connection with the poisoning of her year ten son Mn Walter Waller after deliberating more mor than twenty six U hours Before DeCore Judge Judg Martin Smith could formally pass pas sentence de de- de defense counsel petitioned the th judge to withhold us sentence until tho Ito de defense de- de defense could file Cile a motion for n a anew new trial The Tho request was grant rant granted ed cd Judge Smith allowing tho ho d Ie- Ie tense thirty days in which to tile file the motion mollon Mrs Cunningham h sobbed bitterly when tho the jud n nr road r r. r ad the jurys jury's j rs verdict but did not collapse Mrs l Cunninghams Cunningham's attorneys attorney riled filed notice that an appeal would bt b taken from rom her conviction eon COM AI ANT n SOBS sons Mrs Irs Cunningham collapsed anti sobbed bitterly when Judge Judg Mar Mar- MarIn tin In Smith received the lie verdict of or orthe the he Jury jur Formal ormal sentence will not be pronounced until defense at- at at have filed motions tot for a anew new w trial The Jury jur had been out since 1210 12 lOp p. p m. m yesterday Suspicion was directed at Mrs Cunningham In connection with the thc death of five members of her family In six years y ars when Davit David Cunningham Jr 24 24 became It HI suddenly In Gary Gar and was r re re- re moved to a a. Chicago hospital for treatment last April Oscar Wolff coroner of Cool Cook county count Chicago o Investigated on information given gl by Ly George Ar Ar- 25 a a. cousin of David Cun who said the Cunning Cunning- hams had lived principally on In Insurance In- In insurance urance paid on lives s of the tho deceased members The lion ion continued as David hovered near death de th from front what whal physicians physician sad sd was Internal poisoning airs Cunningham was arrested in Garv I April 11 and a I week weel later was arraigned and bound Lound over to o the flue Ladd county criminal court charge followed examination n of or oftie the he tie internal organs of the bodies of Walter 10 and Harry 23 her hers s Sons ons Physicians ph found traces of or poison In Walters Walter's organs but non In those of the young joung man The accused woman signed a conte rion April 15 I 5 On the same da Os' darc dasie site sie rc fell foil into a state stale of or coma from which she was revived only after liours of effort In the confession which later was wa repudiated as us hav hay having hayng ing ng been obtained when she wa was in a delirious condition Mrs Irs Cun Cun- Cunningham Cunningham Cunningham said she fatally poisoned Isabell Ilabell 20 Charles IS 18 and andal Wal al Walter Waltr ter tr r. r 10 She also admitted hav hay having having ing tog poisoned David Jr who la is oily partially recovered Hed She sold said she she fed the poison to her children on bread and butter sandwiches s CHARGES Indicted on three thrle first degree murder charges charge on June 3 3 by th th- thI I JC county count grand jury jur Mrs Cun Cun- Cunningham Cunningham Cunningham July Jul 10 wont Ss on trial for fo fobe forthe the be alleged killing of her luen young young- ett et child David Cunningham Jr Jt antI and Mae rae 19 1 are the only survivors Il oj of the lIle family fa 11 In her hen PurPorted con con- confession Mrs Cunningham said she sh poisoned T olson lJ the thren children and ulso tried to kill herself so the theu all Join in lit heaven hean hea n David Sr ST a the le father and husband Mrs I I Cunningham declared she ate pots pois poisoned d bread and md butter sandwiches each she he gave ga them to he hei children but they did not affect affet her hl Deaths In the family began on ally loly J 2 2 iSiS 1918 when the father and arid husband died Isabelle Isabelie died De De- December DeI De- De December cember 31 31 1920 20 Harry on ott Octo Octo- October I ber bu 13 1921 Charles September 2 21 1922 and Walter alter September G C 1923 I David last to become III ill li is par par- larI fishy Ully paralyzed but Is gradually I recovering |
