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Coon, Harry Guilty 1stDegree Murder contd 19301002 news_PottEnt

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The Potter Enterprise
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
02 Oct 1930, Thu • Page 1
BYwetzupdoc · 06 August 2021

cont'd
... yesterday afternoon Judge Lewis instructed the jury as to its duties and very carefully informed them as to the law. His instructions were explicit and he was painstaking in giving them.
Jury Retires at 3:15
The jury retired at 3:15 and deliberated. Shortly after 4:00 o'clock a verdict was agreed upon and the prisoner was taken from the jail fo the court room. Its verdict is given above.
Only Third in History
This is only the third first degree verdict in the history of Potter County. It is the first one in 25 years.
The first murder was Farmer Jones who some fifty years ago killed his wife in the vicinity of Ellisburg. Jones was jailed, escaped, was recaptured and finally sold his body to physicians to be delivered after the execution by hanging. The body was taken to Whitesville where Dr. French of Coudersport and Dr. Thorpe of Whitesville dissected it.
The second murder case was that of Charles Brewster who shot his step-father, Marshall Stryker. Brewster was convicted when tried at the September term of court 25 years ago. He was executed in the jail yard here by hanging. W. A. Stevens was sheriff at that time.

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