Show ENI E OP or A TED CELEBRATED CASE C Tho The of or Illinois husband and wife wIre havo hc been n discharged on a 0 verdict of or Not lot guilty Tho The first Mrs Airs Magill died and the husband rathor rathe r too quickly married another woman He Ile started on a wedding Journey in which his grown rown daughter accompanied accompanied her old father and her new mother and at a Western city all three were arre arrested ted charged with th the e murder of the first wife and taken back to Illinois AH All that was known against them when the warrant fo fur for r arrest was Issued was known when the they p married an anIf and andI d if IC the Illinois people had believed a crime was committed com coin comI I I milted the they could have stopped the wedding could havo hav e sprung their warrant before beCore the left home A As s soon as the tho accused came to trial on tho the evidence o othe of f the state alone and without putting either of or the thc accused accused ac ac- cured on the stand the case was closed and the jur Jury y returned a n. verdict of ot acquittal All officers of or tho the law should be proper properly Jealous s to punish crime in crime In in the hope of ot preventing Its repetition But nut there Is such a thing as a 3 prosecuting attorney mistakIng mistaking mistaking mis mis- taking the thc clamor of oC a 3 lot of or undesirable women and In Incapable Incapable In- In incapable capable men for the edict of humanity There is a 30 dif dif- ference Tho The first Mrs Magill seems to have haye been more or less of oC an Invalid The Tho second Mrs 1 I was anil Is a aery very ery presentable and healthy person On On that basis coupled with the indecorously early second marriage the tho of I town own S seem e to ha have haco co constructed constructed u t 4 a charge of of m mUr murder Theta Theirs have havo been all the accessories acce ories I Tho Tito body was was was' exhumed and stared at and cut up by doctors who must have felt ashamed of or themselves and the work in which thc they were engaged All the rumors of all the spiteful old maids in Clinton and Clinton and there are aro several was several was massed as the foundation for tor a n case And now note that it Is all over o not a person who has been following the tho stor story but hut considers that states state's attorney at attorney attorney at- at torney a n. donkey e and the morbid brood that inspIred inspire him as of the earth I 1 Because Magill las was as rich and the they were not because e his net new wife was pretty and they were not because the second wife consented to marry him and they did ao not get a chance chance they they started one of or the nastiest cases case that tha t has ever held transient place on the telegraph pages page s sor of or American newspapers |