| Show A remarkable CASE TUB notorious millington Milli trial a aj denver is at last concluded on the evening of the dinst the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty the verdict was received by the spectators and lawyers who thronged thron ged the court room with unbounded delight the accused were overwhelmed with congratulations and the scene in court was tumultuous the public on the outside of the court did not receive the verdict with the same enthusiasm however the general belief is that the charge of poisoning was not proved the caw case in the annals of criminal jurisprudence will rank with the great trials of the country it oommen commenced oed on january last and did not end until the of april william H avery was a wealthy and influential citizen of port fort collins a town 25 miles from denver some time ago he died under rather strange circumstances twelve days after his death mrs avery a young and pretty woman married frank millington then it began to be whispered that foul play existed in the case of averys death the result was that a charge of conspiracy to poison avery was waa made against prank frank millington his sister dillie and his bis wife formerly mrs avery frank millington is one of the of denver his sister oater dillie alsa is a girl of 18 but in her appearance suggests the manner of a boy in female garb mrs millington Hington Mi Is ia 86 36 she inherited from her former husband she possessed in addition which it Is ia stated was given to her by a former lover or admirer the latter bequest she would not explain in detail in 1884 frank millington and W HA avery very entered into a business partner ship avery was the leading business man of fort collins his wife was a society leader and an organist in one of the churches prank frank millington and mrs avery became very intimate and gossip began to suggestions in may 1890 avery was taken sick he fie died on june 3 8 1890 the rumor was soon circulated that mrs avery poisoned her husband it was aloer ascertained that she was secretly married to millington at hastings nebraska twelve days after her husbands bus bands death the body was exhumed the stomach analyzed but no poison could be found A second analysis made by experts from chicago disclosed considerable arsenic in the bones and muscles of the body A servant girl was found who stated that the doings doing of frank millington and mrs avery were strongly suspicious long before avery died the people of port fort collios collins took up the bhe matter and ington him sister bister dillie and mrs avery were arrested and narrowly escaped lynching lunching lyn ching however the case came to a lawful trial the best beat legal talent in chicago was secured by the defendants the best beat chemical experts in the country were placed on the stand to explain the mysteries about the presence of arsenic it seems that the viscera of the body after the first examination had been buried in ground impregnated with that poison prank frank avery the dead mans brother assisted by the state carried on the prosecution vigorously and unrelenting prank frank millington on the stand testified that be loved mrs avery long before her bar husband died but at the time of averys death was not in colorado mrs avery now millington mallington testified that her former husband was cruel and unreasonable that she did not love him yet was a true wife to him she confessed to being in love with millington and stated that arrangements range ments were being made to procure a divorce with the consent of avery at the time of his death her evidenced evidence it is stated con convinced the jury of her innocence and however unaccountable sume some of the incidents connected with the case may harve ap feared yet during the trial nothing more than mere circumstantial evidence was adduced the defendants were all honorably acquitted the case is remarkable viewing it from any standpoint and while public sympathy is largely with the accused who have escaped from a horrible charge aud and an awful fate they will have to meet perhaps for life the cruel suspicion and cold demeanor of many people who still believe the first |
