NOT GUILTY OF MURDER.
Jury Acquits Joseph Wuerth and
Raymond Weixeldorfer.
Raymond Weixeldorfer and Joseph Wuerth, charged jointly with the murder of Johann Almensbrger, who have been on trial in the criminal court since Monday, were acquitted at 10 o'clock last night by the jury, which deliberated eight hours. It was said about the criminal court building that for the last six hours the jury stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction.
Almensberger was struck on the head by a rock or two on the night of June 26, 1907, when he was attending a house warming at the residence of Herman Seidl, 1884 Terrace street. He died August 3.
The jury was unable to tell who threw the rocks which caused the fatal wound, there being such a confusion of stories told by the witnesses.
The next murder case set for trial in Kansas city is the John J. Pryor case. Pryor is charged with the killing of George Morton on the sidewalk on Walnut street between Sixth and Seventh streets, one night last November. The case has been continued four times, but may be tried at the next setting, October 12.
