Show ANO WIFE FOUND NOT city couple charged with murder of mrs pet magill are acquitted by illinois IIIi aois jury prosecution depended upon declare tion that the conduct of the ac tired couple drove mrs mr magill to te Gul suicide olde and therefore they were guilty of murder decatur ill fred magill and his wife were found not guilty frida freday night flight la the trial for the murder of ma a B first wife W B E redmond made mada the opening argument for the state lie he read a de ciston of the supreme court of 1111 noi to tha th effect that it a person knows know another intends to commit suicide and if he aide aldar abets or such person in that act he Is guilty of minder he argued that fred magill knew his wife was contemplating suicide alid that he encouraged her adding to her despondency by his attentions to FILY fay graham on may 31 last mrs pet magill A as to found ild dead in her home at clinton U ill and a postmortem post mortem examination held six weeks after her death showed show 4 tit that she had been suffocated by chloro form on july 5 in denver colo fred F r ed IC magill AIR gIll her husband and miss ray fay graham a young woman who hae haa been a close friend of the tha family were married four das daa later in san diego cleeo cal macul and his second wife were or ar boiled roiled on a chairge of murdering the first mrs alra magill they were brought back to clinton and seemed a change of venue to this city in the he trial the statement that magill and miss gra ham iam by their conduct had driven mrs magill to suicide and there therefore foie guilty of murder was as made the defence introduced letters writ ten by mis ilia magill shortly beffie her death in which she complained of un bearable headaches and constant nagging of her husbands iela tiNes witnesses also testified that mrs ma gill had often tallied talked of committing gill bill cide in a letter to her husband wilt ten tell the day before her death mrs ma gill asked him to marry ray fay ghaham in case ana thins thing should happen to her magill was employed in a bank at clin ton III the chief owner of which la is Neb wainer united states corn com missioner miss loner of pensions the verdict was greeted with chebis in spite of the efforts of the court to maintain order the crowd in the court room hurried forward and offered con granulations to the Ala maglas gills the jury afterward erard aft filed by an and d ench each shook hands bonds vath w ath the defendants |