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Show Hospital Attendant Convicted of Murdering Patient. The jury in the case of William Webb Ferguson, charged with the murder of Dr. D. L. Barnes of Monti-cello, Monti-cello, 111., by poisoning the doctor in the Central hospital for the insane, Jacksonville, last May, at the alleged instigation of Mrs. Mattie Barnes of Quincy, the doctor's wife, and Mrs. McWilliams, mother of Mrs. Barnes, returned a verdict Saturday after being be-ing out seven hours, finding Fergunson guilty of murder and fixing the term of punishment at twenty years in the penitentiary. |