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Show ONCE BELLE OF THE COUNTY. Now in Jail Charged with l'olnonlng Her Husband. MR. AND MHS. GRAY. Itnthor more than twenty years ago Robert Rob-ert Gray, a stalwart young farmer, married Mary June Cravat, the belle of Madison county, Mo., and settled down on a homestead home-stead near Fredcrickstown. After a while the shadow of disagreement rose between them. Then Mrs. Gray ran off with another an-other man. Her husband received her on her return several months later, but, naturally, natu-rally, the old love between the two was dead. Things went from bud to worse. One day not long ago Mrs. Gray asked a neighbor who was going to town to buy ! her some arsenic, declaring that sho in- i tended to kill her husband. The man re- I fused, and secured a promise that she I would abandon her fiendish purpose, lint it serins that she did not. At any rate she purchased poison personally, and within tho ensuing week Robert Gray was a corpse, having expired in terrible agony. An examiuation of the stomach revealed the presence of large quautities of arsenic. When arrested Mrs. Gray's sole remark was to the effect that she expected to be " "!"',-"r.:ts TUB HOMB OF THE GRAYS, hanged. She spends her time in jnil writing writ-ing "poetry" of this sort; My husband lias sous from me now lo tbe land vl tho bWt Poor husband, Lie Is dead and I am alone, but he Is at rest; It Is a dnbt which all mortals mu3t pay, Yot ot all tho sorrows I've folt In my day I never knew grlrf till ho whb luken away; As tho sun weut down euth the hill tops And the tihndowN stole in over my head So tho hVut of my life witnt out, And left mo with my dead. Full a score of years we walked side by side, Kach us a stutT for tho other, But the angel of doalh bus taken him away. Bo what can I do! Bless those who aro Innocent, oh, Lord, eta |