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Show MACiLL AND WIFE FOUND NOT GUILTY Couple Charged With Murder of Mrs. Pet Magill Arc Acquitted by Illinois Jury. Prosecution Depended Upon Declaration Declara-tion That the Conduct of the Ac-cused'Couple Ac-cused'Couple Drove Mrs. Magill to Suicide, and Therefore They Were Guilty of Murder. Decatur, 111. Fred Magill and his wlfo wero found not guilty Frida night in the trial for tho murder of Ma-gill's Ma-gill's llrst wife. W. 1-3. Redmond mado tho oponlng argument for the stnte. Ho rend a do-clslon do-clslon of the Supremo court of Illinois to the effect that If a. person knows another iiitcin'.a to commit suicide, nnd If he nlds, nbeta or encourages such pcrAou In th t net, ho Is guilty of murder, mur-der, lie argued that Fred Magill knew his wife wns com Miiplntlng suicide and that he cnciurn-.ed her, adding to her despondency by his attentions to Fay Graham. On Vay 31, Inst, Mrs. Pet Magill wns found dead In her homo nt Clinton, 111., and n post-mortem examination, held six wcel s nfter her death, Bbowed that uho had boon suffocated by chloroform. chloro-form. On July 5, In Denver, Colo., Fred Is. Magill. her husband, nnd Miss Fay (haham, n young woman, who had been u closa friend of tho family, were married. Four dnys later, In San Diego, Cnl., Magill and his second wlfo were nr-rested nr-rested on n charge of murdering tho llrst Mrs. Magill. They wero brought back to Clinton nnd secured a change o. ventto to this city. In the trial the statement thnt Mngtll and Miss Graham, Gra-ham, by their conduct, had driven Mrs. Magill to sulcldo nnd wero, therefore, guilty of murder, wits made. Tho defenso Introduced letters written writ-ten by Mrs. Magill shortly before her death, In which sho complained of "unbearable "un-bearable headaches" and constnnt "nngglng" of her husband's relatives. Witnesses nlso tcstilled thnt Mrs, Mn-gill Mn-gill had often talked of committing suicide. sui-cide. In a letter to her husbniul, written writ-ten tho day beforo her death, Mrs. Magill Ma-gill asked him to marry Fay Graham In case anything should happen to her. Mnglll was employed In n bank nt Clinton, Clin-ton, III., tho chlu! owner of which Is Vespnclan Warner, United States commissioner com-missioner of pensions. . Tho verdict wns greeted with cheers, in Bplto ot tho efforts of tho court to maintain order. Tho crowd In the court room hurried forwnrd and offered congratulations con-gratulations to tho Magllls. Tho Jury afterwnrd filed by, and each shook hands with, the defendants. |