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Show I' JMN JIND WIFE CONVICTED OF BRUJALGRIME - Lure Victim to Lonely Spot, Tie Him to Tree and Beat Him to Death. ROCHESTER, N. Y, April 23. After Af-ter deliberating for eleven hours and fifty minutes, a supreme court jury : f tonight brought in a verdict of mur- 3 'J Is Sv, cr n tne rst degree against James I D. O'Dell, indicted with his wife, Pearl Beaver O'Dell, for the murder of Edward Ed-ward J. Kneip on the night of January 7. Immediately after the verdict was announced, O'Dell was sentenced by Justice Robert Thompson to die in the week of June 13. ' The crime of which O'Dell and his bride of a month were accused and to which police and county officials say they confessed was described by county officials as most brutal. Young Kneip whom Mrs. O'Dell accused ac-cused of causing her downfall, was taken in a taxicab from the factory where he worked, by O'Dell, posing as a police officer, and after they had been joined by Mrs. O'Dell, the three were driven to a lonely spot south of the" city. There, in the bed of the old Genesee valley canal, Kneip, according accord-ing to O'Dell'8 confession and story told on the stand, was handcuffed to a tree. Mrs. O'Dell, according to the confession, then beat him upon the head with, a heavy iron file until he collapsed. His body was dragged to a culvert nearby, stripped of clothing r .. and left. Later the O'Dells returned to the spot and, according to their ' story, Kneip recovered and attacked O'Dell. With the aid of his wife, according ac-cording to O'Dell's story, Kneip was beaten off and felled with a club. i Mrs. O'Dell will go on trial May 2G. |