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Show ACQUITTED OF MURDER. Missouri Man Now at Liberty Who Narrowly Nar-rowly Kgeaped Lynching. Sedalia, Mo., Dec. 4. J. H. Mc-Manigal, Mc-Manigal, charged with murder in the first degree, in killing Captain Thomas C. Young of Lexington, Mo., in September, Sep-tember, 1S9S, has been acquitted, Mc-Manigal, Mc-Manigal, who is a youthful telegraph operator, stabbed Young during a quarrel. quar-rel. Young was a veteran of the civil war. and at the time was attending a confederate reunion. For a time Mc-Manigal Mc-Manigal was threatened with lynching by the old soldiers, and later he attempted at-tempted to commit suicide. |