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Show JURY CONVICTS HILL OF MIDVALE MURDER Salt Lake. April ".. Recommending life Imprisonment, the jury In the case of J A Hill, charged with the murder of Marshal Frank A Col-clough. Col-clough. returned a verdict of guilty hs charged in the district court yesterday yes-terday morning The verdict was read aloud In the foreman at exactly 11 :tu o'clock' Hill did not so much as blink as his fate w;.s made known to him. His attorney attor-ney far more moved than he, were rebuffed when they offered sympathy sym-pathy Motion for a new trial was made &: oner and the court set Saturday uiorninK. April 11, as the day for argumt nta The Jury had deliberated from 5 o clock Thursday afternoon At 9 o clock yesterday mornlmr the jurymen jury-men filed into the courtroom ami asked for further Instructions They wished to know whether tbe court bad any legal right to alter In any way the verdict they might render. Upon being advised by Judge F. C. Loofbourow that the fate of the defendant de-fendant rested solely in their hands, they departed to the jury rooms and r -rmed the debate. It was learned yesterday afternoon that on the first ballot a verdict ot guilty was reached, but the jurors could not agree m to whether a rec- onitnentlation of mercy sould he nude. One juror Is said to have held out tor capital punishment for many hours. It was 11:20 o'clock when word reached the court that the jury was 'ready with its verdict The del'end-jaut del'end-jaut was summoned from the county jail He entered handcuffed. The Jury was alread in the box and as I Hill strode forward to his seat he shot a steady. Inquiring glance across the I doen set and solemn faces of his I Judges. His face was pallid, but he ! 'manifested no other realization that qU life bad reached its crisis From I the faces of the jurors It was ident lihar the verdict was against Hill. Hill is convicted of being one of three highwaymen who held up tho Vienna saloon in Midvalfl last August and killed thp nlRhl marshal when he dared td resist "Jack" Cnllahan. Bald to be another of the trio, will come to trial ncxi Monday. Charles G.-mmett. the third highwayman, was ki'ied by Cdlclough. |