Northwest History. Aviation 8. Crime, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: Alaskan slayer; Seattle; Ketchikan; Alaska; Bert McDonald; Portland; Ore.; life imprisonment; murder; George Marshall; fish buyer; Judge Justin W. Harding; trial; Luke S. May; Seattle criminologist; Wyoming; Defense attorneys; circuit court; death penalty; Anacortes; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Harding; Luke; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/87180

Life For Alaskan Slayer: Former Seattle Man Caught By Bullet Identification. LIFE FOE ALASKAN SLAYER Former Seattle Man Caught by Bullet Identification. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 2. (/P)— Bert McDonald, who was captured in Portland, Ore., was sentenced here today to life imprisonment and hard labor for the murder last October of George Marshall, elderly Ketchikan fish buyer. Judge Justin W. Harding denied a motion for a new trial. McDonald, born in Seattle and reared in Anacortes, was convicted after Luke S. May, Seattle criminologist, was brought here and identified a bullet found in Marshall's boat where he was robbed and killed, from a weapon carried by McDonald. Other witnesses were brought from as far as Wyoming. The sentence was mandatory as a federal court jury which convicted McDonald had not recommended the death penalty. Defense attorneys said they were considering appealing the case to circuit court.