Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1944 — Page 8

same death which he improvised for

"The conviction carries with it under |

tion of baby Lawrence's electrocus= |

by daily attendant at the early sessions

John Noxon Jr. Found Guilty, - Of First-Degree Murder of imbecile Son.

PITTSFIELD, Mass, July 7 (U. ‘prominent attorney, today faced the}

© the mercy electrocution of his sixmonths old imbecile son, A superior court jury found Noxon guilty of first degree murder at 6:25 p. m. yesterday after four | hours and 50 minutes’ deliberation. |

Massachusetts law the penalty oH death in the electric chair. Bracing himself on his two canes, | | the crippled defendant stood tensely| erect in the prisoner's dock and] faced the jury stolidly as Foreman | Harry T. Bardwell, a Pittsfield rail-| road employee announced, “guilty of | murder in the first degree.”

Folds His Hands

Only for a moment did Noxon petray any. signs of emotion. As Judge Pinanski dismissed the jury, the 47-year-old corporation lawyer | sat down abruptly and folded his | hands as if in prayer. In convicting the lawyer-defend-ant, the jury rejected his explana-

tion as an accident, in favor of the prosecutiont’s charge that Noxon de liberately killed the mentally-defec= tive child on an improvised electric ¢hair rigged up with a metal sandwich tray and a. trouble cord in the library of his $45,000 home in suburban Pittsfield last Sept. 22. Noxon's loyal wife, Margaret, a

of the trial, was reported on the verge of collapse when told of the verdict at her home where she has peen under doctor's care for more than a week.

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The Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A. band will give its second concert of the season at 6 p. m. Sunday in] Douglas park. The event will be sponsored by air raid wardens of district’ No. 45 according to an announcement by Miss Ruth Smith, supervisor. of music. _ Hosts and hostesses will be Marie Gibson, Katherine Seddins, Vivian Martin, Martha Sweat, Prudence | Adair, Marie Fesion, Morgan Adair, Ronald Gibson, Gene Jackson, Glenn Jackson, William Crawford, Clarence Hibbett and Duane Jack] son.

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