Verdict of Manslaughter

WRIGHT, PAPACH

Posted By: Ken Wright <wright@prestontel.com>
Date: 6/5/2009 at 23:38:47

Preston Independent, Preston, Iowa, October 7, 1899.

Verdict of Manslaughter

The jury in the Wright murder case, which has been on trial in the District Court in Centerville, returned a verdict of manslaughter. Wright shot and killed Peter Papach in a liquor joint in Mystic last January and set up as a defense temporary insanity from mental epilepsy. The case was quite a noted one on account of Wright’s previous good record, and the notorious record of Papach, he being the keeper of the liquor joint in which he was shot. Wright was a member of Company E of the Fiftieth Iowa during the Spanish War, and is a young man of exceptionally good character. The shooting was caused over a dispute in the price of drinks.

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