Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-06-30 | Page 9 | Blame Widow for Shooting

BLAME WIDOW FOR SHOOTING Defendants Change Stor Stor- Stories ics ies After Judge Sen Sell Sentences Sentences Film Group LOS ANGELES June Jun 30 Dy By By The Associated Press Two Two t g of the five persons convicted of manslaughter in inthe Inthe inthe the death of Tom Kerrick film cow cow- cowboy cowboy cowboy boy during a 1 Hollywood drinking pat par party patt par par- party ty t Wednesday gave the authorities stories varying somewhat from those they told as ns trial witnesses and direct direct- directly ly accused Sarah Kerrick Kernick the slain mans man's widow of having fired tired the fa fatal fa- fa fat tat tal t 1 shot WONT WON'T WO T CHANGE GE DECISION Judge Carlos Caries Hardy who created something of a n sensation by sentencing sentencIng sentencing ing ing- ingall all 11 five defendants to prison terms of from one to ten years despite for lor probation con con- concurred concurred concurred In by the prosecution attorneys said the change i stories of the two defendants would make no change III In his decision on Although two t-no of the women In the case e Iris Burns and Anita Davis both film extras Wednesday pinned the shooting dl on Mrs Kerrick they hey the declared either cither of them would be willing to assume the blame to save the widow dow from a prison term The statement of the two women was given g to W W. H H. Holland chief county probation officer T STAND ST PRISON Weve got about all that th t they can give us us the two women said accord- accord accordIng according In Ing to the officers so we might as aswell aswell aswell well tell the truth Sarah Kerrick tilled killed Tom with the gun gun she's she's too frightened to say so They said they believed belle Mrs Ker- Ker Kerrick Kerrick rick was not strong enough to endure prison life Others convicted in the case in addition to the three women were Henry Isabell and Joe Hunt Arizona cowboy