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Show ORPHAN GIRL BE AFTER HUHDEB TRIAL Jury Relieves Her Story That Siie Shot After Man Threatened Threat-ened (o Kill Her. CHICAGO, March I. Estell Stuot, a 20-year-old girl, on trial for the murder mur-der of flcnry Ilonibcrgcr, a picturo frame agont, whom she shot and killed December 1, 1908, was acquitted today. to-day. The defendant, who is an orphan nnd the youngest girl ever tried for murder mur-der in Chicago, testified that Ilonibcrgcr Iloni-bcrgcr called at the homo of her sister and tried to collect charges on n picture which ho claimed her sister had ordered. or-dered. The sister refused to pay tho bill, according to Miss Stout's testimony, and after an argument, the agent struck her several times. Miss Stout, said she then shot Ilornbergor after ho had threatened to kill them. |