Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 6.
Continuing its grim, similarity' with Theodore Dreiser's "American Tra-geely," the trial of Robert Edwards, 23-year-old mining engineer, drew lose in the county court here to: @ay when the death sentence was. Pronounced upon him, The jury had deliberated for 12 hours before bringing tu the verdict of "guilty."
"The "American Tragedy case," as became known because of its likeness to Dreiser's novel, attracted nation-wide attention when Robert Edwards went on trial for the murder of his sweetheart, Miss Freda Me~
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