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Show WARDEN'S WIFE MURDERED. Negro Convict Suspected of Brutal Crime at Joltet Penitentiary. Jollet, 111.- Mrs. Edmund M. Allen, wife of tho warden of tho stato penitentiary peni-tentiary here and former comic opera favorite, was found dead and burned on Sunday In her bed In tho warden's suite In tho penitentiary. A wound on . tho left temple and the rapidity with which tho flames charred her body almost beyond recognition, gave rlso to tho belief that she had been stunned by a blow on tho head and her night clothes soared with alcohol and ignited. Joseph Campbell, a negro convict, who acted as tho Alton's house servant ser-vant and who lived in tho warden's sulto, was placed In solitary confinement confine-ment after a committee of prison officials offi-cials had Investigated tho fire. He would be charged with murder, it was said. |