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Show A TRICK ON HIS WIFii. I Man I'relcndH Suicide to Make His Hi tler t-ler Half Retort. Cairo. III., Jan 18. The reported suicide of J. C. Llghtner, son of s former judge of this county, proves to have been a trick perpetrated per-petrated by Llghtner himself, who assumed he name .'f J. J. Adams, and claimed to have seen Llghtner commit suicide by jump, ing into the riM r here. Adams was induced in" write down his story while enroute to Memphis on the steamer New South, and comparison of this letter with those written to the Bulletin in this city by Lightncr, in which ho threatened to commit suicide, on account of his wife's desertion at 81. Louis, proves that the letters were all written bj the same hand, l ie n v ' IS in Memphis and well. 1 he purpose of the ruse was to mak hU wife n h a! |