People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — DECLARED NOT GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

DECLARED NOT GUILTY.

Verdict of the Jury In the Case of Conductor Scott. Battle Creek. Mich., Dec. 27.— Alter being out an hour and a half the jury in the Conductor Scott manslaughter case rendered a verdict of not guilty. Scott was the conductor of train No. 6 which disobeyed orders and caused the collision here on October 20 in which vwenty-seven were killed and twenty-six wounded. The trial was the hardest fought legal battle that has been tried here; The prosecutor was assisted by Senator Clapp. Th* verdict gives general satisfaction.