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Show KANSASuTAILOR'S ACQUITTAL. Was Charged With Murdering; Many of His Relatives. Lawrence, Kan., March 4. The jury in the case of J. J. Kunkel, charged with poisoning his wife, returned a verdict of not guilty, and Kunkel was released. Kunkel, who is a tailor, was accused of using poison to accomplish the deaths of his first and second wives, and of his stepdaughter, and also of being responsible for the death of his 3-year-old crippled son and his father-in-law. The specific charge on which he was tried was that of the murder of his second wife in September, 1898. |