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Show DR. MARSHALL IS ! HELD FOR MURDER Former Resident of Green River Arrested In Kansas Charged With Shooting His Wife-Taken to Salt Lake. Dr. nnd Mrs. Marshall were known liy almost ccryono In this city, he having practiced medicine here last summer. Prior to that time they had resided south of Elgin for nwhlle, coming here for the benefit of Mrs. Marshall's health. The lady underwent an operation nt Salt Lake City, hut came home stronger than for some time nnd it was hoped that she would ultimately recover. Late In the summer they left here, returning to their former home in the Middle West. Mrs. Marshall corresponded with Mrs. L. II. Green of Elgin nnd only the day before the tragedy she wrote her a letter, seemingly in the best of spirits and not a hint of an distress was given. The late Mrs. Marshall was a fine young woman, of splendid splen-did cducntion and refinement. She was liked by all who knew her nnd it was with profound regret that the news of the sad occurrence occur-rence wns received here. Local opinion seems to discredit the I suicide theory, most persons believing that It was an accident. The doctor nnd his wife seemed to be very devoted to each other and often went out walking, when they practiced target shooting. Green River Dispatch, Dec. !, 1015. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. C "I just wanted to sec If Resale could shoot herself Hint way." This was the statement made by Dr. Herbert D. Marshall, the physician accused of the murder of 1 his wife nnd who shot himself in the back of the head Saturday 'while In jail nt Seneca, Kan., according to advices received here Ihi8t night. Dr. Marshall's wound is declared to be not serious. jThe bullet, it is stated, did not pierce the skull, but plowed nlong I the side of the head and wns removed two inches from the point of j entrance. After he shot himself, while In the jail at Seneca, Dr. Marshall ; wns removed to Snbetha, the city in which ho was arrested last Thursday when he arrived from Snlt Lake City with the body of his wife. He wns taken ta Snbetha hospital, where he remains I under guard. It was there that the attending physicians romoved the bullet and expressed the belief that he will be able to travol In two or three days nt the outside. He Is Willing to Return to Zlon. II. D. Lyon, who left Friday night to return with Dr. Marshall, arrived at Snbetha Saturday night and will assist In guarding his prisoner until the doctor is able to travel. A tnessago from dc tectlvc Lyon last night wns to the effect that Dr. Marshall was willing to return to Uenh without the formality of requisition papers. Dr. C. P. Harvlelle, assistant county physician of Snlt Ijtko county, who loft Saturday morning for Sabetha, arrived there yesterday yes-terday evening In time to take an X-ray photograph of the head of Mrs. Marshall. It showed that the bullet which killed the accused physician's wifo entered the back of the head an inch nnd n half behind the right ear, passing directly forward, and is lodged in the brain substance near the forehead. Officials investigating the Marshall ease, Assistant County Attorneys A. V. Wntkins nnd Harold M. Stephens, nnd members of the police department, "took n day off" yesterday. They have worked for nearly a week gathering evidence ngalnst the nccused physician, nnd, ns one of the officials expressed it, "the evidence wo have yet to secure is of tho character that will not run nway, so wo feel that we are entitled to n breathing spell." However, it wns stated that the work of investigation will be resumed today, nnd it is believed that by the time Detective Lyon arrives with his prisoner, probably by Thursday or Friday, the chain of evidence ngalnst him will be such as will hold him for trial In tho district court on the charge which he now faces thnt of deliberately murdering his wife in their room nt n local hotel Sunday noon, November 28th. Dr. Marshall's Sister In the House. When Dr. Marshall shot himself Saturday afternoon, while in the sheriff's kitchen nt Seneca, ho used thnt officer's revolver. It is said that the previous evening Marshall, the sheriff and a Sabetha Sab-etha attorney had been in the room nnd thnt Dr. Marshall hnd used tho sheriff's revolver, illustrating how, in his opinion, Mrs. Marshall Mar-shall had been accidentally shot.by dropping her revolver which slto was preparing to pack. The weapon returned to the cupboard wns not the one which Marshall used Saturday, but wns another revolver, which the sheriff kept in the cupboard. Mnrshall had previously been ncqunlnted with the sheriff nnd knew where the weapon wns kept. In another room nt tho time of the shooting wns Miss Doris Mnrshall, n sister, who is a stenographer in St. Louis, nnd who wns in Seneca visiting her brother. Investigation made by the officers nt Seneca and Sabetha regarding re-garding tho finnncial affairs of Dr. Marshall nnd his wife, shows thnt Mrs. Marshall's first husband, L. L. Hnggnrd, left five thous- , nnd dollars life insurance. It is stntcd that Mrs. Marshall did not in iter lifetime spend the principal nnd Mrs. Marshall's relatives ' declare that Dr. Marshall squandered it. Mrs. Marshall, it Is stated, carried two thousnnd life insurance, her aged mother being tho beneflcinry in the policy. |