Show Mns A W SLAYBACK of St Louis who sued Colonel Cockeiell ofthe Pos Dispatch newspaper fore 85000 > damages f depriving for-e her of her husband the defendant having killed playback has wisely Withdrawn with-drawn the suit The action was petty if not malicious and entirely unworthy the lady The killing was in no sense a murder Slay back simply found the fate that be I courted and deserved He entered the private office of the editor pistol in hand and undertook to avenge a fancied insult by committing murder mur-der It so happened that Cockerel r Cock-erel was quicker or more fortunate I for-tunate than his intended slayer and the wouldbe murderer was himself killed Through the I efforts contributions of Cocker r ells friends the mortgage was raised from Slaybacks house and some money presented to the widow the total collections collec-tions amounting to several thousand dollars The widow could not well entertain kindly feelings for the slayer of her husband but the ordinary sense pf right ought to have suggested to her both the impropriety im-propriety and injustice of persecuting perse-cuting Coekerell by a suit for damages dam-ages |