The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
Jury Returns Related Finding After 34 Hours
 Of DeliberatiOn |SELBY SCORES
 UNUSUAL VERDICT Eyes Fill With Tears As
 He Protests His
 Innocence FIGHTER ACCUSED
 OF MORS SHAVING Former Ring Champion Charged With Killing Wealthy Sweet
 heart Last August
tBy Associated Press. )

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 29.-- 'Kid" Mccoy, former pugilist, was convicted in superior court late to- day of manslaughter in connection with the shooting here August 12, last, of Mrs. Theresa W. Mors. The penalty for manslaughter is from one to ten years imprisonment.
 When the verdict was read, Me- Coy's eyes became tear-dimmed as he sat at the end of the counsel table.
 'I don't believe it was a just ver- dict" he said. eff I am not guilty as charged, I am not guilty at all."
 The prisoner then rose and in custody of bailiffs walked across the court room to comfort his three sisters, who were weeping.
 Was Compromise Verdict.
 Foreman F. W. Coulther of the jury, said that the verdict was a compromise One-"the best we could do."
 The jury, which was out longer than any other in the legal history of Los Angeles county, had been locked up for seventy-eight hours when the verdict was returned at 5 :06 o'clock tonight and had been in actual deliberation for 34 hours.
 Twenty-four ballots were taken be- fore the fate of the former prize fighter was read in open court. The jury was comprised of nine women and three men.
 Makes No Comment.
 Superior Judge 0. s. Grail had no comment to make other than T guess 1t was the best they could do."
 Several hundred persons, many of them women and members of southern California boxing circles, thronged the halls outside the court room when the verdict was returned.
 Sentence will be passed at 10 a. m. Defense attorneys announced tonight that notice of appeal would be filed at that time. Mrs. Mors, divorced wife of Albert A. Mors and joint owner with him of the Mors antique shop in a fash ionable shopping district here, was found dead of a bullet wound in an apartment leased to "Mr. and Mrs. N. Shields" Her body was discovered about 9 a. m, August 13. At about the same hour Mccoy is alleged to have entered the antique shop and held up several employees of the place later lining them up on two sides of the store room while he waited for the appear ance of Mors whom he announced he was going to ''get."
 Women UnmOltested
 The men, after handing over their money and valuables, were forced to re- move shoes and trousers to prevent their escape; the women were allowed +o x.-aif unmoIactnd
 As customers entered, they were similarly disposed of until one of them, William G. Ross, made a break for liberty. He was shot in the thigh, and then, it was testified. Mccoy went next door to the shop of Mir. and Mrs. Sam Schapp and shot both of them also in the thighs.
 AbSdt this time, police Investigating the death of Mrs. Shields" learned that the dead woman was Mrs. Mors and that MT. Shields" was Kid Mccoy.
 They launched a search for the ex- pugilist. It was scarcely under way before telephone reports reached central station that Kid Mccoy had run amuck in the West Seventh street shopping district and shot several persons.
 Visits Sisters
 In the midst of the reports, came word from relatives of Mccoy that he had visited his sisters home during the night and it is alleged, confessed to her he had killed a woman.
 Mccoy, who had by this time left the vicinity of the antique shop shooting and meekly given himself up to patrol
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