Show famous burdor case buffalo N Y jan 26 the recent action of the cabinet of ontario in grant inc at the eleventh hour a bew trial 0 o mrs olive Ster who was under een tenca to be hanged at bayta out for abo aliened murder of her has created a decidedly favorable im pres aioo in thia city of which ahe woman is a native mrs Ster caman bacr here to live last year after ibe death of her husband and was ar 1 rested here on proceedings ce tee efforts of the canadian authorities to obtain possession of her were vigorously resisted and the case attracted inter national attention the judge bitor whom the proceedings were held hot ever held that be was required only to paes upon ibe validity of the extradition papers and not upon the question of her ewt or innocence and in the result ehe was taken across the border the evidence at the trial was decidedly weak but tho jury was influenced by the country gossip antagonistic to the accused aad she was convicted and sentenced to death according to the tee in the case her husband geo was confined to hie oed nearly three months before his decease throughout his illness his wife was devoted to him and he died uttering expressions pres of tenderness and affection for I 1 her the early stages of hia sickness the attending physician biag nosed his ailment paralysis but later bad a consultation that the wife upon aud the coo ferring medics decided that his ailment was shrinkage of the liver atter his dealt there were no of foul play until the widow beet ibri the collection of 2000 insurance on h u life ahn sinister rumors were beet in circulation the body was and nn autopsy held which resulted in the finding of arsenic in the liver and brain an indictment was found against mrs Sterna manon ehte evidence and as befaro stated she waa extradited from buffalo on the trial it wag bbown that the eick man had for acke before ilia death been practically kept alive by doeer 0 strychnine and arsenic edmin on the physicians prescription and that it been remarkable bad not hia entire system been found to be impregnated with these poisons but nestr beless ahe intelligent jury came to the n that murde reia and the judge imposed a capital sentence ahe action of the dominion authorities ia rightly regarded as a outline to both judae and jury and as a triumph of the deliberation of sta tiamen ivr the gossip of country village there is bat little doubt that the woman who has been within a twenty four hours shadow oe the gallows will be promptly acquitted upon her next cital which will ba watched even more closely on the american barder than was her pre trial |