People v. Kimbrough

Respondent was convicted on a charge of murder in the Saginaw circuit court, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence was circumstantial. It was the claim of the people that respondent murdered Rose Fernier, an eight-year-old girl, and after-wards burned her body in the furnace of the manufacturing plant of the Valley Sweets Company, where he was employed as a porter, when the girl disappeared. Rose Fernier lived with her grandmother on Hamilton street in the city of Saginaw. On Sunday evening, January 3, 1915, Rose was sent by her grandmother to a nearby restaurant on Hamilton street…