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Show POSTAL CARD CLEW IN MURDER MYSTERY Man Saves Cent, but Pair Goes to Jail. Valentine, Neb.-Clinton W. Smith, farm hand, saved one cent when ho sent a poslal card Instead of a hitter to Mrs. John Smith, asking her to meet him here, huf the saving of the penny resulted In a thirty-year penitentiary peni-tentiary sentence for both him and Mrs. John Smith. The man ami woman were tried and sentenced for tho murder of Mrs. Smith's husband, and both pleaded tullty. "She's tho wildest woman In the world. Thai's why we killed her husband," hus-band," Clinton Smith said when sentenced. sen-tenced. Clinton Smith arrived In Valentine two weeks before the murder. I'p to that time he hud never sivn Mrs. Smith, lie went to work as a farm bund for her husband, John Smith. The men were tint related. The murder was so well concealed that the Mayers would have escaped unsuspected If Clinton Smith had not saved that one cent stamp ami given authorities a clew. The pair confessed they knocked the husband down and then drove his heavily loaded wiyjon over bis head, the wheels obliterating all signs of the blows he had heen dealt. Accidental death was the first Verdict. |