Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1928, Page 6

JURY FINDS KELLEY GUILTY OF MURDER ‘Butcher Boy’ Will Get Death Penalty for Slaying Mrs. Meilus. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., September 15 Leo (Pat) Kelley, “handsome butcher as found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Myrtle Mellus, his soeiety woman | Sweetheart, by a jury in Superior Court | this afternoon after less than three |}~ hours’ deliberation. The verdict, unac- companied by any recommendation for leniency, made the death 'ntence Was charged with murder in rst degree. The case went to the of seven men and five women near the end the morning session, the quick verdict coming as a surprise. A gulp, a twist of his body and a firmer LEO (PAT) KELLEY. P A P. gns of emotion shown r Ren e heard the. verdict. | Mo me Kelley, his mother, col-|one who entered the home after Kelley | hid in the closet did the killing. | _Sentence will be pronounced next s. Mellus, wife of Frank Mell ‘hursday. sportsman _and manufactur Jain on August 5 last. Her hus- found her body when he returned | et e "o St | s Wl befentoeil | beaten over the head, probably with an empty liquor bottle. On her body were numerous bruises and cuts which the pro !hl‘:\ (‘\')nlend:ld were the i teeth m of her assailant. Mellus called police and an_hour | Board Ballot Die after the first officers arrived Kelley | o s found hiding in a clothes closet. 1o admitted he had visited her, had| Bv the Assec drunk with her, quarreled with her nnd‘ PITTSFIELD, Mass, September Coclidge in Schoo had “beaten her terril 15.—The only man who ever defeat- Kelley told of a five-year illicit love| ed President Coolidge in an election affair with the clubwoman. In the in-| to public office, Harry C. Crafts, died vestigation that followed, names of a| here today of apoplexy. 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