SENSATIOINAL MURDER TRIAL.
A REMARKABLE SCENE
United PreM Aitocistion—By Electric TelegTuph— Copyright. (Received- Jnly 7th, 4.50 p.m.) BRUSSELS, July 6. After a trial lasting many days, Carlos Waddington, son of the Chilian Charge d'Affaires at Brussels, was acquitted on a charge of killing Ernest Balmaceda, nephew of the late President of Chili, on February 24th, 1906. Tho evidence showed that Balmaceda, after seducing Waddington's sistei , refused to fulfil his promise of marriage, and threatened to create a terrible scandal in Chili.
A remorkable scene occurred in Court at the close of the trial. Men cheered, and women embraced Waddingion.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12850, 8 July 1907, Page 7
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