Show I A STRANGE SGENF A Prisoner Attempts SelfMurder In Court HEAVY RAIN STORM LN CHICAGO It IioesUrcat Damage Waltini on the Water rA Boiler Explosion Duty on Loaded Canadian Cars CniCAOoJuly 27 Therewas a sensational sensa-tional scene in Judge McConnells court teem at midnight James W Smith had been on trial the few days past on the charge of criminally assaulting an eight yearold girl who had been taken by Smith and his wife from the Orphan asylum at Akron O for adoption The case was given to the jury Oiisg afternoon and at 1140 tonight they returned a verdict ver-dict of guily and fixing Smiths sentence at nine years in the penitentiary Smith was greatly affected and rising said I am innocent in-nocent I swear before my God whom I am about to meet I am innocent As ho finished he raised his hand in which he had a small pocketknife and plunged it into his breast while his wife who had been sitting beside him screamed wildly Oh Jim why did you do that The doctors were hastily summoned and bund a wound an inch and a half deep above the left nipple They do not think he wouldbe suicide will die but the judgd was too much excited to read it tonight Smith had always heretofore borne a good reputation and was employed a draughts man in the railroad office here |