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Show NAVED UtO.M I'KIStlV. A Wedillni Keep a Man t'rom tining to ,111 In Kentnrk-'. Loi isvii.i.K. Ky , June 10. A vcd-diug vcd-diug that occurred here Monday sales a man and woman from the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Last October Annie Butcher eaitio lo this city from Carrolllon, Ky., and shortly after her arrival a child was born to lier, When she was able to travel, .lames M. Hutchinson, who jived near her home in Carrolllon. came here and they started away together in a boat. When near Kentucky river, tho twu quarreled about the illegitimate illegiti-mate child, and the woman threw It into the water and It was drowned. , When accused of Ihe crime thn woman confessed, but declared that Hutchinson had forced her lo doil. They wet e arrested and placed lit jail in this city. The trial was set for today. to-day. Just before 1he case was called Hutchinson and the woman went lo Ihe county clerk's oilier and secured a marriage mar-riage license, being" escorted by Turnkey Turn-key Alf Dm is, In whiau custody they we're. The party then went to Squire Camp's ollici). accompanied by a curious curi-ous crowd, and were made matt nud 'wife. ' Under Kentucky law a woman cannot testify against lier husband iu a criminal case, nor can tho husband testify tes-tify against the wife. The only witnesses wit-nesses in the case were Hu'chiiison and the woman, and their marriage preventing prevent-ing their testifying, the case had lo bo i dismissed. |