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Show 3 ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 6. Ursula Broderick, 16, who killed her stepfather, stepfath-er, Joseph F. Woodlock, In their home here April 14, 1919, was found guilty of murder In the second degree by a jury in juvenile court here tonight and her punishmont fixed at ten yenrs in the Missouri penitentiary. The jury deliberated only an hour "and thirty-five minutes. The girl heard the verdict yithout a trace of emotion. emo-tion. Motion For New Trial. She was sent to the detention home, being unable 10 furnish bond for ?10.-000. ?10.-000. Her attorney, Charles P. Johnson, John-son, announced he would file motion for a new trial. The defendant, was charged with first degree murder but the chargo was changed to murder in the second degree, by the jury, which in fixing her punishment at ten years, gave the lightest sentence permitted for that charge. Third Trial For Girl. It was the third time that the girl was tried for killing Woodlock, whom she shot to death. A continuance was ordered at the lirst trial on account of an error In the court's instructions I to the jury. The second hearing re-j re-j suited In a mistrial, the jury being unable un-able to agree after twenty-six hours. JAt that time the foreman reported the (vote stood ten to two for conviction, j Ursula took the stand in her own ! behalf today and reiterated her former testimony that she killed Woodlock to protect her honor. The stale contended that Woodlock was killed as the result of a plot between be-tween the girl and her, mother, Mrs. Carrie Woodlock, and that he was shot while asleep. The last witness for the j state, an assistant from the coroner's ; office, said thnt In performing an au-1 topsy on Woodlock. he discovered the bullets had entered Woodlock's head ! and ranged downward, indicating that , he had been shot from above. Mrs. Woodlock to Be Tried. Mrs. Woodlock is also under indictment indict-ment for her husband'sx death. Her trial will be held later. In 191G Ursula shot and killed her father, Thomas P. Broderick, but was exonerated by a coroner's Jury when she 'testified that she fired in defense of her mother, whom, she said, Broderick Brod-erick wan beating. 9 |