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Show MI E DIDN'T MIND IT. The Case orjfra. Loekssoo.1, f he Al-leced Al-leced CTonM be Poisoner. Vineland, 2. J., June 3. Mrs. Cremora Jackson IOckwood,cIiargeil with attempting to poison her ageu husband, was given a liearlrigllrlA morning. Sirs. Ickwood was (he most composed person in tbeoom, and never bitraj ed the least" emotion emo-tion o. Irritability. She is on the shady side of 43. Is fine looking nnd was elegantly attired, iter husband occupied a seat near by. Ills son, Arthur and Maurice, and son-in-law, Elliott Cogswell, all swore that ho come to them ani asied them to have his wife arrested, as he was afraid she would kill him. Ixwk- wood 'a daughter si ore that when her fattier found the powder iu his teacup he brought It to her and told her to have an analysis made. Doctors BIdwell aud Adams, who made the analysis, sworu that the powder contained enough morphine to kill u irou. Marshal Creech swore that after arresting Mrs. Lockwood he searched her room and found a loaded revolver and a dagger tindrthe plllowsofticr bed, and a iiuautity ol arsenic in the pui-cci ot her dress. 1 1 wa also offered in evidence that Mrs. IxJtwood threatened to shoot her husband the day before sho Is alleged to have put the morphine iu his teacup, and that recently her husbaud prevented her from slioot-Ing slioot-Ing Ills fifteen-yeiir-old soil There Is considerable feeling here favorable to Mrs. 1-ockuood. Many claim that the Is THE VICTIM OS A CONSl'IR-iCT onthuartof her liusliand's children, child-ren, who want to get her out of the way. Mr. Iiockwood was recalled In the afternoon for the punwee of giving additional testimony against hi wlfe, Uit he declined to say anything any-thing prejudicial to Mrs. Iockwooil, aud cre-ated a sen'atloii and dumbfounded dumb-founded the lawyers for the prosecution prosecu-tion by saying that It was his children child-ren wIm ndvited liim to make the e-hargcagalnst his wife, instead of his a-kiiigthechi!dreii tomikclL The lawyers then virtually threw up the case, stating that Lockwood had been Induced by some j ressure to change his statements made previous previ-ous to Mrs. lock wood 'a arrest. Thv justice! then di-harged Mrs. Lock-Wood, Lock-Wood, when her husband ran up to embrace her, but she waved him aside Hiid told hhn (hat she had enough of him and his family aud positively refused to return home ith him. Loekwood then became enraged at one of Mr. Lock wood's friends and wasabout to assault her, Then an officer ejected him from the court room. Mrs. I-ockwood, it is-t!d, will immediately return to Virginia. itsrirSl l.lretrle lloa.1. Desvfb, June 3. Ten miles of electric street railroad was put in successful operation today by the Denver Tramway Comiany. It is through the business part of thecity and is the first electric road Iu operation ope-ration In Denver. V, s-ij-i Ihe "Tlme.' Ion idn, June 3. The 7iwes declares de-clares that the onltrdrMwtehlng the American cruisers to tbo Pehrlng eca smacks too much of the i''irst Xainieon in dealing with Weak statesmeu.and if the order is executed, execut-ed, Jlritith meii-uf-n-ar must follow. "We can only insagine." the Timet continues, "that pressure from the 1 rish-Amet scans Indm-ed Illilneto ithdraw from his apparent deIre for a diplomatic settlement. We believe England will agree to a closed sw-cin for seals in the open tea, but such arrangement must bo international, anil cannot bu imposed im-posed upon the world by gunboats at the biddiug of Ilialne. |