A VIRGINIAN MURDER.
EX-JUDGE ACQUITTED. By Telegraph.— Association.— New York, July 1. A Virginian jury has acquitted exJudge William C. Loving for killing Theodore Estes in April, after his daughter had declared that Estes had drugged and assaulted her. In April last Mr. William C. Loving, formerly judge of Nelson County, Virginia, shot and instantly killed Theodore Estes, a wealthy young man, who was managing the Virginian estate of Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, the New York millionaire. Estes had drugged and ruined Mr. Loving's daughter. He : was an intimate friend of the Loving family for years, and was a welcome guest at their mansion at Lovingston. In Virginia tho "unwritten Jaw" is strong. It is only a few months since the brothers J trother, who shot a wealthy landowner i named By water for wronging their sister, | were acquitted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 7
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