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Show BOTTOM DROPS 001 OF II SEISM Prosecuting Attorney Refuses to File Murder Charges in the Winters Case. NEWCASTLE, lnd., June 1. It. H. Abe, a detective, who caused the arrests ar-rests Saturday of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Winters and W. H. Cooper on charges of conspiring to commit a felony in connection with the disappear a nee more than a yea r ago ol Catherine Winters, nine-year-old daughter daugh-ter of Dr. Winters, withdrew from the case late tod a v. This action follows the failure of W. R. -Myers, the prosecuti njr attorney, to fi lo a Hid a v its ; in the rhvn it court charging Cooper j atul .Mrs. Winters, who is the child 's j stepmother, with first degree murder. "Politics has entered this case,'-! Abel said. "I will have nothing further; to do with it unless the murder arli- davits are filed and a special prosecutor! appoi 11 ted . 1 ' I Prosecutor Myers said he wished ! moro time to go over the evidence submitted sub-mitted by the detective. He said he had not refused to file the charges. Abel, before his departure, asserted he had discovered evidence tending to show that a box had been shipped to Coctyor at a town near Decatur, 111., the second day following the disappearance disappear-ance of Catherine on March '20, .1913. He said he had intended going to Illinois Il-linois tonight to follow up the clue. Despite the statement of Prosecutor Myers, it is general I v believed here that with the withdrawal of Abel, the 'i resent investigation has ended. |