Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-05 | Page 11 | Ryan Faces Year's Sentence in Prison

RYAN FACES YEAR'S SENTENCE IN PRISON SALT LAKE, July 5 A verdict of involuntary manslaughter was returned return-ed at 8:20 o'clock last night by the jury in the case of J. J. Ryan, tried in Judge John F. Tobin s division of the Third district court on a charge of murder in the first degree for the death by poisoning of his son, James Le Roy Ryan, 7 years of age Thj deliberations of the jury began just before midnight the day before yesterday. At 6 o'clock last evening the foreman of the jury reported to the court that there was little prospect of agreement The court sent them back to their deliberations, with the result that a verdict wa,s reached nearly near-ly three hour? later. The greatest penalty that may be Imposed under the conviction is one year's imprisonment in the county jail. Ryan aud his little son both took poison in a room of the Cullen hotel on September 4, 1918. In the information informa-tion filed asainst Ryan he was charged charg-ed with murder In the first degree on three counts, having administered poison poi-son to his son, hanng induced him to take It, and having joined him in taking tak-ing poison for BUfcldal purpose. The jurv returned its verdict under the third count on the least grave charge provided under the law and the court's instructions.