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Show MOTHER WEEPS AS SONIS FREED .Penna. U. Sophomore Wins Acquittal By Order of Presiding Judge PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29. William M Urines was acquitted Friday of Ihe charge of killing Elmer C. Dre wes. The University ol Pennsylvania sophomore sopho-more was freed on the ground that in sufficient evidence had been submitted submit-ted to connect him with the DSrl mouth college senior's death Judge Ferguson of the criminal court .before whom the case was tried In his charge to the jury pointed out that no evidence had been submitted to prove that Urines met Drawee on the day of his death and lhat all the evidence submitted asalnst ihe deii nd ant was circumstantial. He sdded thai lf was possible that Drewei might have committed suicide and some one might have taken the body the pol where It was found on October 17 DIRECTS ACQUITTAL. He therefore directed the Jury to bring In a verdict of not guilty on I Ihe bill charginc murder, and upon ib.-'manslaughter ib.-'manslaughter bill as well. The fore-i fore-i man said It had been unanimously de-j Ckled by the Jury last night at the; close of the prosecution's case, to ac- , quit Brines, The aCQUlttal wns followed by n commotion in the court room. A mif nientary silence, abruptly broken by gasps, hysterical feminine laucht.r land noisy moving of chairs was fol-: lowed by sharp demands for onb r Mrs. Annie I '.rims, the widowed moth f of the ;iC. i:si-il student. v pt MOTHERS WEEP "This Is the happiest moment of my, , 1 Iff." she exclaimed as she kissed her son. "They have given me my boy. God has been good to me. I know my j boy anil I know hlfl c nsoiends and I know he did not kill Elmer." lirines throw his arms about his i mother's shoulders and burst into tears. Mrs. Christian Drewes, mother of the dead student, who had collapsed in court this morning when Brines' I counsel suggested thai he might have) committed suicide, moaned piteously. j "My poor Elmer," she sobbed, "he did not kill himself. This is terrible There is a Higher Judge who loous ...T u all. He Is the one who will: Justice no." |