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Show A St. Paul man is now in jail under un-der chargo ol disposing of tho twins his wife had borne him unpleasantly soon after marriago. The indictment recites "that on or about the 10th day of May, A. D. 1871, Joseph Lick willfully, unlawfully, and without the authority of law, and with malice aforethought, killed and murdered two female childien then and there, having been horn of one Ulrica Lick, and said two femalo children boing about the ago of thirty minutes, by putting said two fomalo children into a large pan of water, whoreby they wero both drownud," and his step-son declares that on their birth ho hoard tho twins cry before ho went for an accoucheur, their arrival having anticipated antic-ipated that useful functionary, and when ho returned ho saw tho innocents inno-cents in a basin of water, with their feet sticking out, and stone dead. Tho wife ol this alleged Herod was murdered last winter, hut it was not found possible to convict any one of tho crime, although tho above story was raked up then, but was not admitted ad-mitted as evidence. |