| Show NOT GUILTY the verdict in the trial of the follett boys TWO ARRESTED FOR CATTLE STEALING holding high carnival in the saloons over the result and openly threat ing the witnesses for the prosecution special to the ENQUIRES arizona dec 19 this was the thirty third day of the trial of the seven defendants charged with robbing paymaster J W wham near cedar springs of and wounding eight out of eleven of the military escort the case went to the jury this morning and aliey returned a verdict of not guilty in leas than one hoar to alie utter astonishment of all each and every defendant way positively identified by witnesses who saw them on the ground participating in the fight and the robbery the circumstantial evidence connecting each with crime was overwhelming without a link the defence relied absolutely on alibi without attempting to prove good character in a aingie instance the rebuttal testimony for the prosecution completely demolished each and every abiba set up tonight to night defendants are holding laigh carnival in saloons and are loudly and openly threatening the lives of witnessed for alie prosecution bloodshed is predicted in graham conaty alie scene of the robbery lyman follett one of the alleged wham robbers and ed follett were arrested tonight to night by the sheriff of graham county on a charge of cattle stealing THEY BELIEVED HIM DEAD special to the NEW YORK dec 19 walter elliott of north ninth street brooklyn E D a moulder in the employ of tuttle and bailey manufacturers at north tenth street and wythe avenue sank into a comatose state friday evening which so closely resembled death that his family began preparations for his funeral mr elliott who is 25 years of age and married had suffered for some time with inflammation of the bowels and gastric fever and in the words of the young woman who told the story yesterday had been dying since sunday he grew worse rapidly on friday and because of his low vitality and feeble condition his wife was not greatly surprised when at in the afternoon he sighed deeply there was a rattle in his throat and with a gasp he seemed to expire the man was apparently dead his extremities were cold no breathing however alight could be detected and the heart ap feared to be still the usual deathbed death bed scenes followed tbt wife wept and pressed a little child to her breast and others who were present sympathized with her in her arief after about an hour of lamentation it was decided that it was time to summon an undertaker who would prepare the corpse for the grave and a young girl was told to go for one the child made ready to obey but it was fifteen or twenty minutes before she started to leave the house and then just as she was leaving the room the supposed corbae on the bed sighed once more turned half over on his side and immediately sank into another trance his unconsciousness this time lasting nearly two hours when mr elliott revived from his second trance he retained his consciousness but his physician expressed no hope of his recovery and gave it aa his opinion that when death overtook the sufferer it would come when unconscious A NOTED BRIGAND ON TRIAL special to the ENQUIRER constantinople dec 19 A noted brigand named bachand Ma chand put upon his trial today to day for one of the many offenses which he has committed hia land lias been for many years past the scourge of alie country between the asiatic shore of the and he received tribute more regularly than the government itself and there was not a village in his district that did not pay him blackmail his men were armed martini rifles and the local did not trouble the chief or his gang their attentions scarcely a day passed without an account of a murder attributed to this scoundrel and some of them were peculiarly brutal after committing a series of outrages and rendering a visit to a large district unsafe although only a few miles of alie capital lie was at length captured and brought here to be tried after alie close of one of the sittings of al court he was ordered to enter alie police van he attacked alie officers who li d of him knocked over alie driver and enado good hia escape ho admitted alien that lie had personally committed sixty murders lately however lie appeared to have become desirous of changing liia profession he the name of aswan and went to where lie was appointed u custom house officer there he was however recognized and arrested when apprehended lie denied that he was the evidence of his identity was so strong that lie finally confessed himself to be the famous briand he was brought here in chains it is thought that on evidence furnished by himself lie will be condemned to death loiso poiso viyo CASES special to the ENQUIRER VIENNA dec 19 the assize court of gross in hungary is about to try ono of the most appalling cages ever annals no fewer than clity noruen of the servo hun garian village of melenese Mel eneze are accused of poisoning their husbands and other near relatives it is alleged that they procured alio prison from two professional fortune tellers who eribo a regular trade in the noxious drugs and earn a considerable sum of money thereby attention was first called to their crimes in 1882 by a beautiful woman named deago kurkin who having made away witch er hug band was BO overwhelmed with remorse that she gave herself up to the authorities the two foi tune tellers were at once arrested but they have since died in prison and the difficulties of collecting evidence have caused the secret judicial examination of the horrible altair to last seven years it is now stated that testimony enough has been procured to establish acta by eighty women i ough efty seven only will be arraigned atlee bar the other awen ty three having died or fled the poisoning became at one time BO reckless that within two years thirty eight in habitants of melenese Mel eneze died suddenly in convulsions their deaths were attributed alt the time to epidemics the case is to lie proved in many instances by the confession of the accused but eighteen of the women are to be convicted on the evidence that poison was found in alie bodies of their lius bands on exhibition UNION OP TWIN CITIES Spes lal to the ENQUIRER minneapolis minn dec 19 the union of minneapolis and st paul ia now being vigorously discussed alie of sentiment in both cities is opposed to municipal union at aliis time but alla are in favor of commercial union that will bring united effort for the securing of manufactories manu factories and building up alie cities the ultimate result that union will be the out MURDERED HER HUSBAND special to alie ENQUIRER W ya dec 10 lo alie grand jury concluded its labors late last night returning an indictment against mrs jacob morgan for the murder of her husband about a year ago morgan was killed by his wife that she might obtain about of back pension money he had received she then intended to skip out with a lover alie crime was a brutal one A FAITHFUL DOG I 1 special to the ENQUIRER J UPPER MARLBORO MD dec 19 edward ford a colored boy accidentally shot himself through the heart today whilo out hunting and his companion hastened back to town to obtain kielp the coroner accompanied by a jury hastened to where the body lay but when one of the party proceeded to examine the wound he was warned off by alie dead boys crouched on ins masters body and would not permit anyone to come near it was not until a member of the boys family came upon alie alie faithful animal consented to leave his post 0 WHERE 0 WHERE CAN HE BE special to the ENQUIRER mich dec 19 agrest sensation is created by the disappearance of dr nicholas formerly mayor it is alleged that nicholas business has several families among them needy widows and old soldiers gone to canada of course |
