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Show WOMAN IS MIKED: HUSBAND ATTACKED ( Mysterious Tragedy at St. Joseph, Mo.; Several Suspects Sus-pects Arrested. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 15. Twenty hours after the murder of Mrs. Osca D. McDaniel, wife of the prosecutinj attorney, in her home, and the at tempted assassination of McDaniel, th case tonight is as much a mystery a ever. A dozen or more suspects wer arrested in the course of the day, bu all were released. The theory has been abandoned tha j the murder was only one step in a pl( j for wholesale jail delivery and reveng I upon the prosecuting attorney. S threateing letter received by Mcbani J about two weeks ago and the Jindir jj of a kit of tools today which could reused re-used for a jail delivery appeared jp bear this out. . y , It is now suspected by officers thQ flip n linn virions Inr.tnr wns written i side the jail and a prisoner who w in the jail on a charge of highway rc bery is believed by the police to km something about it. He and seve: other prisoners were questioned by t police today and it is rumored that c of them supplied a clew. A telephone call which led McDar' down town last night and which aft; ward proved to have been a d'ocoy fered the opportunity for entering ; house. As he was driving home and step from his car to open his parage d? a shot was fired at him from beh the building. McDaniel, who had ried a gun since he began rocciv threatening letters, roturned the fi Hushing upstairs, he found his t with her head crushed. Two chile were found asleep in an adjoining rop not having been awakened. ri |