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Show CKOHOlNti CREDULITY. Mr Chlnholm Relates More ot Her Improbable Tales. Chicago, 20. Inter-Ocean's Wash ington: Mrs. Cbishelm has returned from Mississippi, where Bbe went to attend as a witness in the trial of her husband's murderers. She represents matters aa entirely under the control of the desperadoes who murdored her huaband and children. Before testifying testi-fying she was warned by the district attorney not to say a word except in answer to questions. If Bhe alluded to any event calculated to prove conspiracy con-spiracy by reference to the murders subsequently committed, she was immediately im-mediately arrested in her testimony, and not allowed lo go on. If Bhe mentioned anything said by her husband hus-band she was told the court did not wish to know anything of private com municationa between her and her husband. Tbe presiding judge pronounced pro-nounced the whole testimony insufficient. insuffi-cient. Many o; tbe rabble who were discharging their firearms in the barn and biding by night with their bands on their guns, in the surrounding trees, were wilneuaea for the defense, and some of these same persons are on tbe grand jury who have to find a bill for the indiotment of themselves fur the Bubaeouent murder when that nase comes up. Tbe judge charged the jury and assured them that unless there was conspiracy, which there was not, and unless Cbisbolm was proven a qualified voter, which he was not, they could not but acquit, whioh they did in five minutea. Judge Lee, dis ' tiiot attorney, seemed to he entirely . overawed by the ruling spirit. |