Show MAGILL AND WIFf FOUND NOT GUILTY Couple Charged With Murder of Mrs Pet Magill Are Acquitted by Illinois Jury Prosecution Depended Upon Declaration Declara-tion That the Conduct of the Accused Ac-cused Couple Drove Mrs Magill to Suicide and Therefore They Were Guilty of Murder Decatur 111Fred Magill and his wife were found not guilty Friday night In the trial for tho murder of Ma gills first wlto W K Redmond mado the opening argument for tho state Ho rend a decision de-cision of the Supreme court of Illinois to the effect that if a person knows another Intends to commit suicide and If ho aids abets or encourages such person III that art he Is guilty of murder mur-der He argued that Fred Magill knew his wife was contemplating suicide and that he encouraged her adding to her despondency by his attentions to Fay Graham On May 31 last Mrs Pet Magill was i found dead In her home at Clinton III and a postmot torn examination held six weeks after her death showed that she had been suffocated by chloroform chloro-form On July 5 In Denver Colo Fred K Magill her husband and Miss Fay Graham a oung woman who had been a closo friend of tho family were married Four days later In San Diego Cal Magill and his second wife were ar rested on a charge of murdering the first Mis Magill They were brought back to Clinton and secured a change of venue to this city In the trial the statement that Magill and Miss Graham Gra-ham by their conduct had driven Mrs Magill to suicide and were therefore guilty of murder was made The defense Introduced letters written writ-ten by Mrs Magill shortly before her death In which sho complained of unbearable un-bearable headaches and constant gagging of her husbands relatives Witnesses also testified that Mrs Ma I gill had often talked of committing suicide I sui-cide In a letter to her husband written writ-ten tho day before her death Mrs Ma gill asked him to marry Fay Graham In case anything should happen to her Magill was employed in a bank at Clinton Clin-ton 111 the chief owner of which Is Yfispaclan I Warner United States com mlss one of pensions The verdict was greeted with cheers In spite of the efforts of tho court to maintain order The crowd In the courtroom court-room hurried forward and offered congratulations con-gratulations to the 11 a gill s Tho Jury afterward filed by and each shook hands with the defendants |