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Show A Clergyman on Trial lor 31 order, or-der, Dixon, III., 6. A remarkable murder mur-der trial iB going on here. Elder McGhee, a minister of the Christian chur, the defendant, is accused of having poisoned his wife for the sake of marrying a young paramour named Rilla Paddock. The fact of the poison being administered haa been proven, alio the fact that McGhee Mc-Ghee bought it and acted strangely regarding his wife's disease. A halfwitted half-witted daughter of his confessed that he poisoned her mother, but subsequently subse-quently said that her father urged her to do so, knowing that it was false.' The defense is trying to prove that the attending physician is the culprit. |