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Show OVATION FOR WOMAN ACQUITTED OF MURDER CASSOPOLTS, Mich., May 15. Tho acquittal of Mrs. Christina Metsker of South Bend. Ind., of the charge of niur-! niur-! dering Carleton Morgan of South Bend, ut 3 o'clock on the morning of April 10, outside tho homo of Mrs. Mae Green in this city, was the occasion of an un- Sroccdeiited demonstration in court to-ay. to-ay. Deaf to warnings and threats of arrest the crowd cheered and clapped hands and Bang. Several hundred people peo-ple escorted Fi. Metsker to tho jail, where sho picked up her personal "belongings "be-longings and from' there to the station, whero she took a train for South Bend. Mrs. Metsker '3 husband had already left for homo on an afternoon train. During tho trial Mrs. Metsker testified testi-fied that the shooting of Morgan was au accident. Sho said thnt sho followed her husband and Morgan to Cassopoiis upon discovering a buter signed "The Merry Widow, " and making mi appointment" appoint-ment" for her husband to oin a party at Mrs. Green's. Sho carried tin- revolver, re-volver, she said, only for self protection. protec-tion. Tho fatal shot was fired, she said, accidentally in tho struggle thst ensued en-sued whim her husband, encountering her na ho emerged from Mrs. Groon'a homo with Morgan, struggled with her for the possession of tho revolver. |