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Show MURDER yERDiCT STIRS TOGO Sentence of 25 Years for Slayer of Three Held Too Light BY EDWARD M THIERRY. N E A. St.ift orrespondent "'CHICAGO, Sow C The customary record breaking toll oT crime ordinarily ordi-narily loaves Chicago colrl and un- emotlohal. But just now the city is uiiprecedently stirred over the outcome out-come of the murder trial of the notorious no-torious rrl Wanderer. Chicago thinks a monBtroun mis- I carriage of Justice took pluce win a ithe young c.x army lieutenant pot) 'only 2r, years in the penitentiary for murdering his young wife, their un-I un-I born babe and the ragged .stranger," whom he hired lo stape a fake hold-np hold-np and give him an excuse for the killings. CITY WIDE CENSURE Cit-wlde censure is pouring down i upon the 12 Jurymen who returned 1 the remarkable verdict that fixed 'the degree of Wanderer's pun Kb ment. This is the more pronounced nince the statement has been made that the Jury, in its 23 hours delib- eration. never once even considered the death penalty The Wanderer verdict has been the j chief topic of conversation. It over-shadowed over-shadowed the election and politics. The Insistent demands is that Wan I dorer be tried again for the specific j murder of the "ragged stranger." which was not included in the trial Just completed Wanderer confessed his tripl crime and revealed the plot he hatched to make It look like a holdup hold-up in which he posed a having accidentally ac-cidentally shot bis wife in trying to kill the " thug." His motive was to be rid of his family so be could go back Into the army. CHICAGO COMMENTS Here are comment-. ou hear n-er n-er where on the Wanderer verdict: , "It's discouraging to be decent," s;ill one without jesi j "The worst l he'll go fiv. leloi. file j.', years are up,' said :, n. ,t h.r. reading that in 13 yearw and if months Wanderer win be eligible lor pardon. I They should have had a juiv ol I women to hear that trial." said many. "What'fl the use of a trial any- ' way?" asked one "They just ousht ' to open the doors and lot him out and let somebody pick him ofl , Critics want to know if ' there Is la zone of twilight justice for mur I derers." RESULTS OF VERDICT The Wander,) verdict, besides stirring the city-., wrath, had thi . results: j Brought this cry of amazed de-,iighi de-,iighi from the murderer: "Can von i heat u? Twenty five yean fiat : i I beat the rope. J knew they'd never 1 ! ctoak me'" Gave a million dollars worth of advertising a8 skillful lawyers to Benjamin J. Short and George Guen-ther. Guen-ther. appointed by the cuun to defend de-fend Wanderer. Put a blemish on the conviction record of Assistant Slates Attorney : James C. O'Brien, known as "Ropes" O'Brien and "Red Necktie" O'Brien. , because of his previous success in i sending murderers to the gallows. t Cndlil much of the profre.;s mafli by the police homicide squad and 2 the Chicago Crime Commission in ' Shocking, crime Judge Hugo Pam excoriated the j ;Jury for the first sending him word L9 itley believed the wile murderer in- ini nd then bj I to- itatemi si ol H Phorpe, foreman M givini hiu only 25 yesos instead of cause the) were :.fniid it they found linn Insane "he would ger away Willi ear or two in the asylum!" The Wanderer crime occurred l.i it June 21. The 'ragged Manger," youth of 'Jo, has never been Identi- LLV |