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Mrs. Jane Powe and Miss Ethel Inman Acquitted of Murder, Feb. 12, 1924

Acquitted of the Charge of Murder

Waynesville, N.C., Feb. 11—Mrs. Jane Powe and Miss Ethel Inman, on trial in Haywood county charged with he murder of W.A. Powe, aged resident of Hazelwood last August, were found not guilty by a jury today.

The case was handed to the jury on Saturday, and a verdict was returned today. A mistrial results at the last term of court. Mr. Powe is believed to have been poisoned, and the two women were charged with the offense.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Feb. 12, 1924

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