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Show GUILTY OF MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 4 "Guilty of murder in the second degree," was the verd'et returned today against Robert. Thompsou, enarged with the murder of Eva Swan, the young stenographer steno-grapher whose iuutila'cd body was unearthed un-earthed from its hiding place beneath the cement floor for several days; but the ury'8 deliberations required but an hour and twenty minutes. Story of th Crime. Thompson, or Dr. Giant, as he was known at the hospital he conducted, was involved in the case by Marie Messersehmldt, a nurse in his employ. em-ploy. The nurse testified at the trial that when the girl died at the hospital, Thompson packed the body into a trunk after cutting off the feet, and conveyed the trunk to the vacant house which lie had rented Death, the nurse said, had followed a criminal crim-inal operation performed by Thompson. Thomp-son. The body had been buried several sev-eral months before it was discovered through the confession of a youth who assisted in the burial. |