Show FOUR ON TRIAL FOR POISONING O OF 1 PEACH KING I Sensational Case in Georgia Georgi Involving g Three W Women om n and a Man MACON Ga Dec 20 Ch Charge Charged with poisoning poisoning- Fred D D. D Shepard mil millionaire Bonaire peach king three women and andone andone an anone d one man were making a fight for their r lives hero today The four members members- rs' rs of f the alleged allege d 1 u murder cab cabal aI central figures in on one of the most sensational cases In th the e history of the South were h having havinga a ee preliminary hearing before Judge Judg e Matthews who will release them or order or- or or 01 der er them held for trial THOSE ON TRIAL Those charged with the murder are members of prominent families own ing lag large They aro are th the e widow of the dead man who has remarried remarried re ro re- re married and now is Mrs Pauline Elmer EImer El Elmer El- El mer her sister Mrs lone Jone Henry Ernest Hopson a son of the widow b ba by a a. former marriage and Mrs Annie E E. Cu Cutts The principal figure is Mrs Elmer I referred referred to in tho the testimony a as at Paula She has had three husbands husband i and Is alleged to have havoc planned an and I bossed the tho poisoning of Shepard The states state's effort is to prove that I Shepard was a victim of f a veritable e I Borgia plot It is alleged that his tl s slayers put poison polson in his whisky an and d that he died their th scrutiny that tha t they joined with him m laug ling an and d td making m merry knowing al 1 tho time tim e he was was doomed SISTER IS ACCUSER Mrs Alico AIleo Cr Crandall sister f r of the dead man is the principal accuser o of the alleged conspirators Fred was m murdered by Paula an and d her gang Mrs she was informed by Mrs l Cutts one o of ot f the defendants Four tenants of the Cutts plantation also testified that Mrs Cutts tol told d them the fatal poison dose was prepared pre pre- pared pared- In her homo home and th that t several persons were involved t The The- state expects to to cl s its case by Wednesday and lawyers for tor the de de declare their clients will b be free by Christina |