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Show MANSLAUGHTER IS THE VERDICT Roy Hinterliter Found Guilty of the Death of Elizabeth Fatcliffe. Olney, Ills., Jan, 10 The jury in iho case of Roy Hinterliter, charged wirn (he murder of his sweetheart. Miss Elizabeth Ratcliffe, brought in a ver diet of inanslauRhter at 1 15 o' lock this moining after having reported threo times for instructions. Th penalty for manslaughter is a sentence sen-tence of from one year to life imprisonment impris-onment Hinterliter confessed on the -witness Btand that the girl's death occurred last I uly during an attempt at an illegal operation while driving in a buggj with him, but asserted she had U8t 'I 'he surgical instruments supplied by him while he was not with her. He claimed the girl emploved the instruments in-struments whilo he went to unhitch his hm-'-e tier! ahnur thirty feet away Hinterliter said when he returned to the girl she was unconscious. Ht' believed she had fainted bu? was una. ble to revive here. He placed her In the bugfcy and drove in a hospital at Olney, where a physician found that the pirl was dead. The state contended that the death of the girl was caused by air bubbles forced into her veins for the purpose of relieving her condition. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jan. 10. Rcpre sentatives of the Three 1 League, tho Western and Central Leagues and the Central Association met here loda to consldr proposals for a re-adjustnieni of the schedules in order to improve the financial condition of the four organizations or-ganizations The conference was called at the suggestion of President A. R. Tierney of the Three I. League and it considered con-sidered probable that he will BUggesI training one of the cities in one of his organization to the Central Asso ciation and that one or the Central Association cities ma be induced to join the Three I, circuit. |
