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Show Sohiewhat Sensational. Boiss,Ida., June 12. At Payette last night at midnight, Matt Crump was arrested for the murder of Farmer Thomas Hon an, who was killed on his farm near Caldwell on the night of May 13th, by being struck in the head with an axe. Crump was Bonan's hired man, and suepicion, had been aroused, in view of the intimacy of Cru p and the murdered man's wife. After Crump ha 1 been in j ail a short time, he summoned the sheriff and others and made a -sworn statement that he saw Mrs. Konan kill her husband. hus-band. He said they had quarreled and that she had aeked him to kill Ronan. bat I he had refused. On the night in question, he said, MrB. Itonan dr?esed herself in his (Crump's) clothes and whsn the husband hus-band went outside, attracted by the noise, she struck him in the head three times with an axe Crump savs he had just come home from CaUwell when he saw the blowB struck. Crump had a hearing today and the charge agaiust him was dismissed, dis-missed, although he was held in $1,000 bond as a witness. Mrs. Ronan will be arrested tonight. |