| Show MOUNTFORDS SET FREE I Charge of Grand Larceny Xot Sustained Sus-tained In Justice Wenprers Court Ths case of the state against John and Ann Mountford charged with grand larceny was heard in Justice Wencers court yesterday afternoon At the con I cision of the presentation of the case for the prosecution Attoiney Holzheimer I representing the defendants moved that the case be dismissed and the motion was granted I The Mountfords were arrested some days ago at the instance of a committee of the I O O F which was aooolnted I teOt f So DJ to investigate the death of one James Tucker a member of the order who died at the residence of the Mountfords Oct I 3 under what appeared to be peculiar circumstances not to say exceedingly suspicious ones 1 At the trial yesterday the evidence of tra I Undertaker Joseph William Taylor who buried the deceased showed a most bure I shocking condition of affairs with respect to the attention given the deceased de-ceased but it in no way tended to sustain I sus-tain the charge The other evidence offered of-fered by the prosecution tended to reflect re-flect seriously upon the = rob ty of the defendants but was not of a nature to I prove tho commission of a crime on their part whatever it caused those who heard it to think and the court so commented tl sf rClrs I when granting the motion for dismissal From the evidence it appeared that I Tuckers money was dissipated In a drunken debauch some weeks prior to I Tuckers death |
