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Show Aged Mother of Maud Tabor Virgo Alone Faces Charge of Manslaughter. PAW PAW, Mich., April 30. The jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah Taylor, eighty-year-old Lawton, Mich., woman chargod with manslaughter In connection connec-tion with, tho mysterious death of her daughter, TTaude Tabor Virgo, reported report-ed a disagreement tonight and was discharged by Judge Howard Wiest. Tho case goes over to the next circuit term which opens the middle of May, but it was indicated a postponement to October probably will bo sought. The jurors had been considering the evldenco nearly 36 hourB. The trial was the outgrowth of a mystery that dated back nearly five years to the disappearance at Lawton of Maude Tabor Virgo, student of literature, lit-erature, graduate of the University of! Michigan, and well-known as a school teacher in Michigan and In several -western states. It was generally understood among :ownspeople that she had died in the tvest and been buried in Colorado Springs. The Incident was all but forgotten for-gotten when the body of tho former 3chool teacher vas discovered last November No-vember by her sister, Mrs. Florence Critchlow, in a trunk in the basement of the Tabor home. The subsequent investigation led to the arrest of the mother and her son, Walter Tabor, in California. J. C. Tabor, Ta-bor, who it later developed had been Becrcy married to Maude Tabor, was also arrested. Charges of murder were lodged against the three, hut these charges were later dismissed and Mrs. Tabor alone was placed on trial on charge of manslaughter. |