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Show mi itiir.it Inlhellrai lirsrrt- la llie trrdlrt Asnlual Jlra. Jlorcitn. WIIKTI.IM), W. Va., Aug. 22. The trial of Mrs. Morgan, In Trier county, lias come loan end with a verdict of munlt r In the first degree, and the woaiau has la-en sentenced to the penitentiary for life, the rlr-t ca-e In the history of the State iu which a woman haa la-en given that l-unMinient. The murdered man was a cousin of lieneral John Morgan, the celebrated Confederate raMt r and cavalry min.nander. ai.d the crime waa a ta.kl-blo.sied oiw The woman's liu-ltand had In i at-seiit from home ou the date t murdtr, May s, I"--, and on hi- r. turn sat down to Mira'r, not k .. Ing that his food was poi-. t While he was eating hia u if. w, i t tadiind him ami shot him in ti e lau-k. Morgan fell ot r ami hi- w i ci't Ilia throat with a bub her km . J-lie theu rau to a neighl-ar'-. Imu . ami said tliat a stranger liad come to In r home and asked for -u4 1 r ami had situ! her husl-and ill the bf.-a-I. He immediattly lltal, slie declare-, and auothtr stranger entered the IxjU-c and eut Iter Iiu4and'a throat. The State succetaleil iu tlxiugthe erlmeuion Mra.Morgaii, a neighbor testify ii.g that she had said fuurur five days lafvre that her IrU-loml woulJ la- dea.1 in six day-. AlMKht r woman had railed at the hou while llie table was being set, ami was about to drink a cunof Ira.whru Mra.Morgaii took it froin Iter. lilt, in jail Mr. Morgan waa heard I ilk ing to her-elf, saying once, "I laid the plot and lix'-tl him." |