Greensboro, Dec. 24—Otto Wood was found guilty of murder in the second degree yesterday by a Guilford county jury for the killing of A.W. Kaplan Nov. 3. The verdict was reached about 10 o’clock Sunday morning and was presented to Judge Shaw shortly before 11 o’clock.
With the verdict the jury presented a recommendation that Wood be given the full limit of the law. This is 30 years of hard labor.
Judge Shaw did not pronounce the sentence. He will do so this morning when court convenes. It is believed by those who have followed the case closely that the sentence will be 30 years.
A tense moment came when the foreman of the jury, W.H. Dunbar, reported that the verdict was “guilty.” Otto Wood was standing on his feet. His wife and one child were beside him. Mrs. A.W. Kaplan and members of her family were present Lawyers on both sides sat listening intently and an unusually large number of persons leaned forward eagerly.
Wood did not blink an eye lash. He smiled and said he thought the sentence was about right.
From the front page of the Reidsville Review, Monday, Dec. 24, 1923
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