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Show UNWRITTEN LAW PLAYS VITAL PART IN TRIAL Special Cablegram to The Tribune. CAPlC TOWN. May 7. Tho unwrllton law played a vital part in the recent trial which resulted In the killing by Maj. Ronald McLean, a retired army officer, of Jack Burone, alias John Guy Watson lo Barono, to whom his daughter Lilian had become engaged. Miss McLean rnude his acquaintance when on a visit to her sister and brother-in-law at Burgers-dorp. Burgers-dorp. She returned to her father's house, and shortly after introduced Barone to her father. , , , , , Meantime hor brothcr-ln-law. who had dono his utmost to prevent tho engagement, engage-ment, made Inquiries regarding Barony, and discovered that ho was marrlod. lie Informed Major McLean, who made nves-thratlons nves-thratlons on his own account, with the result that ho forbado his daughter to have anything inoro to do with Barone. Witncscs wore brought forward to prove that Barone was a bookmaker who had been warned off race courses, a can) sharper and a notoriously bad character, who was known by the police to keep company with cx-convicts, rorognlzcd thieves and other suspicious persons. Tho Infatuated young woman, however, refused to bellovo her fathers statements as to her suitor's character, and dcoJhieu to give him up. and met him clandestinely. clandestine-ly. Her father met them together and shot tho man. Inflicting a fatal wound. He was acquitted amidst cheers. |