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Show ilUitE " FOUND NOT GUILTY Couple Charged With Murder of Mn. Pet Hagill Are Acquitted by Illinois Jury. Prosecution Depended Upon Declara 'Hen That the Conduct of the Accused Ac-cused Couple Drove Mr. Maglll to Suicide, and Therefore They Wer Qullty of Murder. Deraliir, III-rred Maglll and hi Mfe were found not guilty Friday night In the trial for the murder of Ma gill Drat wife W K lledmond made tbe opening argument for Iho atale He read n decision de-cision of the Rupremo court of Illinois to the effect that If a person know another Int. mis lo commit (nlclde. and If he aide, ale-Is or encourage tuch person In that nit he I guilty of mur der He argued that Fred Maglll knew hla wife waa contemplating suicide and that ho encnura ted her. adding lo her deepondenty by hla ntlenilona to ray Oraham On May .11. laat. Mr Pet Maglll wa found dead lu her homo nt Clinton, III , and a noat-nioriem anamination, held alx week after her death, abnwed that ah bad len suffocated by chloroform chloro-form On July 6, In Denver, Colo, Fred K Mnglll, her husband, and Ml Fay (Jrabani, a oung woman, who nan been a cloee friend ot the family, were married Pour day later, In Han Dlegq, Cal , Maglll mid hi aeejind wife were ar rested on a charge of murdering the tint Mr Maglll They were brought back lo Clinton and aecu-ed n change of venue to thla clt) In the trial tbe talement thnl Maglll and Ml flra ham, hy their conduct, had driven Mr Maglll lo aulclde nnd nr. therefore, guilty nf murder, wna made The dcfofiao Introduced letter written writ-ten by Mr Maglll ahorlly before ber death. In which tbe complained nf "unbearable "un-bearable headache" anil conalant 'nagging" of her husband' relative Wllneaae nlo teatltled Hint Mr Maglll Ma-glll bad often talked of committing am clde. In A letter to her husband, written writ-ten the dny before her death, Mn Ma gill asked him lo marry l'ay Oraham In caae anything should liapiien 1 1 her Mnglll wa employed In a bank at Clin ton, 111, tho chief owner of which 1 Veapaclan Warner. United Stale com-mlMloner com-mlMloner of i-enslons. Tho verdict wat greeted villi cheers, In (plto of Iho effort of tho court to maintain order Tho crowd In Ihe court room hurried forward and offered con Rrntulutlon to the Maglll Tho Jury afterward tiled by, nnd each book hand with the defendant |