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The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 34

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BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, Wednesday, June 4, 1975 Father Guilty In Poison Candy Death of Son, 8 HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Ronald C. O'Bryan was vlclid of murder Tuesday In the Halloween candy poisoning son. A jury women deliboi ed only -15 minutes before re turning thft verdict. O'Bryan, 30, stood passively aa the jury foreman the verdict.

Ka ducked hi3 head but Ihen continued to at the jurors. The prosecution h.id that O'Bryan gave his son, Timothy, cyanide-laced Inst Ha'lowren eve to collect more Ihnn 530,000 in Insurartco mnnciy. The. boy died in p.iinhil ctin- vuisiojjn nt a Houston hospital a few hours niter eating lha O'Bryan tDok tho wilness stand last week and told jurors ho had taken his son on fi trick-or-trent outing and tho poisoned candy was given tho hoy by' someone during onn of (heir house-to-house stops. The Jurors will ba ssques-tered tor the punishment phase of the trial Is expected to begin Wednesday.

The state seeks the death penalty. O'Bryan was found guilty ol enpil.il murder nnrt the jury may sentence him to ricath Texas law. Also pendinp, against O'Bryan four counts of nltempted murder for allegedly dis--tributing poisoned candles to 6-yonr-oId daughter, Ellza-. beth, and three other children In closing arguments' Tues day said O'Bry "the worst crime in this -community, sacrificing his own IsDn to the altar of his own Dunne the trial, tha state Iliad presented witnesses who testified O'Bryan had made quires about the use of cyanide prosecutors nevei -proved that O'Bryan purchased any of (he poison. 'Bryan's wife, Daynene, tt 'fified the family "didn't ha much money" and said her -husband did pat tell her abuut the insurance he had taken uui On their son's life hist year un Mil after the hoy's death.

O'Bryan wept quietly during -her testimony. Takins the told putting his son 'to bed after nllawme; Id fia he said was ojie of can. dies cnfhered during an eve- nF trick-or-treat door I tucked him In, kissed 'iiim goodnight ana procceaea.tr. leave tha room," Bryan test! fied. "I noticed Tim was up.

told him, 'What are you doing cut or red? ne sato, my stom- acb huTls." I followed him to t. the bathroom and ho threw up grabbed him around tho turn- ray and he threw up again. And he collapsed in my arms O'Bryan called an ambulance and the boy was taken to the hospital where Iib died about two hours later. "My God, O'Bryan re when risked if ho kriev the candy lui had eiven thi child contained enough cyanide to kill two men. Tho prosecution said O'Dryon put the poison in tho candy tfial his son.

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