NO JURY WILL CONVICT
DUTCH MURDERER’S PLEA. (By Telegraph—Press Acsociatlon —Copyright). NEW YORK, Jan. 25. , John Drost, a farm hand, shot his father dead. Arrested at Northbcnd, Washington Stale, he said: “I shot him because T am Americanized. If we had still lived in Holland I would not have done it, but here is the greatest country, on earth, and no jury will convict me when I tell them the motive.” ' A daughter in attempting to sa% r e the father was badly wounded.
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Southland Times, Issue 14635, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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84NO JURY WILL CONVICT Southland Times, Issue 14635, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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