November 11, 1926 – George C. Nelson was on Wednesday in Juneau sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor and will be escorted south to begin his sentence at the Federal Penitentiary at McNeill’s Island by Marshall George D. Beaumont on the steamer Spokane. When asked by Judge Reed if he had anything to say, Nelson responded, “I know nothing about it.” Nelson was tried and found guilty of having murdered Nels Peterson on the 17th of September in Petersburg. According to evidence in the case Nelson and Peterson had trouble on the Saturday night preceding the shooting. On the following Monday...
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