People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — Train Wrecker’s Trial a Failure. [ARTICLE]
Train Wrecker’s Trial a Failure.
Lincoln, Neb., March 19. —After bei”' out forty-nine hours the jury in tl Oevis murder trial reported that th*' could not agree, and they were dw •barged. The jury stood seven to flIn favor of acquittal, which Is the pr 'ortion illustrated by the first ball >1 aken. The case w’H be set for a ne” rial at once. This is the case wherelr George Davis, a negro, is accused of wrecking the Rock Island express las ummer, resulting in the death of eleven people.
