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Show PLEA TO HEAVEN " GAMS PURSE OF , $1000 FOR YOUTH PONTIAC, Mich., May 8. -Anson Best, convicted last night of the murder of Verna Schneid-: er, a telephone operator, and j sentenced to life imprisonment ; at Marquette, will not be taken to the northern Michigan prison pris-on immediately. A movement ' to finance air appeal by popular 1 ,' subscription begun immediately 1 ; after the verdict, was being con-i con-i tiiiucd today. ' In his statement before sentence sen-tence was pronounced Best called upon heaven to witness his innocence, and a purse was immediately started. It was said to contain $1000 this morning. The prisoner maintained he had never known Miss Schneid- j er and that the confession of. I fered by the prosecution wa3 ob- 1 tained from him under duress. |