MURDERER CHEERED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

MURDERER CHEERED.

KILLED SISTER'S LOVER. REMARKABLE TRIAL SCENES. Allen, a young man on trial at J*", Pennsylvania, on a charge of •ij,® eru }B bis sister's lover, Francis Donbe sn' t ovem ber, is now free, but iurr * e . n anxious hours before the con,i gave lts verdict. Spectators in ha " ere s ' af tled by the sight of Allen's le U?' woe begone face. He is 23, but added* l- 88 though '20 years had been to? ais age. eiiiltJi , heard the fateful words not a enilo dropped back into his chair in the prolonged cheering filled u\is no Bt -'" crowded, although the hour Ti5 a F midnight. aldsnn'o 5 had objected to DonAllen 1 aßsociat ' on '"'it' l ,ier > young in" i,; 3 , acc used of deliberately shootj or .Straying her. Rose, the brother 4u lVen . < r vi(lence against her the rnL? . tnal, but when Allen left arm. ® she -w-as the first to throw her If a?] i, the y wept together, i'iinsr *P n . a d not been acquitted someWhito „ -?! Ia might have happened. j:- o tv,i aw t a L nf - the jury's decision a large in" <'\v 1 re d outside the court, shoutC vn , w ant Lucas!" Albert Lucas I'dson "V 8 " who was a friend of Donwas present at the shooting •"kill wlifl -^" en s hot on puroose to lliiijn™ J, . defence pleaded that the Luoic B ? ln tentional. <si e « *«« hurried secretly away from •"inovaiico 0 ? 36 ' R° se Allen also suffered 'adhnnoi v m cr °wd, which hissed d her when the jury retired.