Show DECLARED OT HUll TV BY JURY Fred Magill and His Wife Free Freeto Freeto Freeto to Enjoy Their Interrupt Interrupted ed Honeymoon Decatur III Ill Oct 18 Acting under In Instructions from Judge Cochran the jury ju tonight ht returned a verdict acquitting Frederick Magill and his wife Fay Fa Gra Graham Graham Graham ham Magill of the charge of murdering Mrs Irs Pet Magill the first wife of at Magill In his Ids instructions the judge said the state had failed to prove the corpus de deTlie delicti The verdict was greeted with cheers In spite of the efforts of the court to main maintain maintain maintain tain order The rhe crowd in the court room hurried forward and offered congratulations to the Marius The jury afterward filed by b and each shook hands with the defendants On May 1 1 last Mrs Pct was found dead In her home hm at O III and anti a post examination held h ld hl h six ix x weeks after aCter her death showed that she had been suffocated by chloroform On July 5 in Denver Colo Coto Fred K Magill her husband and Miss Fay Iy Graham ii t young woman who had been a close cluse of ol the family were married Four days das later In San Diego Cal Magill and his second wife were arrested arrest d don on a charge of murdering the first Mrs Irs Magill They Thc were brought back to Clinton and secured a change of venue venue to this city In the trial the statement st that Magill and Miss Graham by their conduct had driven Mrs Magill to sui suicide suicide suicide cide and were cre therefore guilty guilt of murder was made The defense Introduced let letters letters letters written by 1 Mrs Irs Magill shortly be before before before fore her death In which she complained of unbearable headaches and constant cOl stant nagging of her husbands relatives Witnesses also alo testified that Mrs MrA Magill had often talked of committing suicide In a letter to her husband written the day before her death Mrs Magill asked him to marry Fay Graham In case any anything anything anything thing should happen to her Magill was employed In a bank bani at Clinton Ill the chief owner or oC which Is Warner War Warner ner nero United States commissioner of pen pensions |