Arizona republican., 1893-07-14
TURNED LOOSE. It Could Not Be SatiS-
 factoriIy Shown That Mrs. Murray Had
 Committed Arson. Like Jeremiah She Had Pre- dicted Fiery Destruction. A Tendency Toward Cussedness and to the Use of VItriol for the
 Humbling of Her Enemies.

morning of July l, was gwen prelimi- nary hearing before Justice Wharton yesterday afternoon and was dis charged. The testimony against her was sufficiently binding, but it was fur nished for the most part by unreliable witnesses of Mrs. Murray's class and with whom she had had trouble and who seemed inclined to give her more of it.
 She had been unable to procure an attorney at the time set for the hearing and continuance was allowed for two hours. In that time she had secured the services of MT. J. T. Matthews and promptly at o'clock the examination began.
 The first witness was Joe Holland, whose mother owned the buildings. His testimony related only to his hay ing served Mrs. Murray with notice to quit five days before the fire.
 The next witness was Maggie Harris who occupied d one of the houses. She was a willing witness and it was shown that her relations with the prisoner were unfriendly. She said that at 2 o'clock on the morning of the fire Mrs. Murray passed her door and remarked prophetically and malevolently, You won't sleep SO sound in there tomorrow night" by which it was to be inferred that Mrs. Murray meant that there was going to be hurried vacation of the premises which did aCcually occur bout two hours later.
 After uttering this prophecy Mrs. Murray went on into her house and with three companions indulged in a beery banquet. When the fire was in progress the witness noticed Mrs. Mnr- ray smiling complacently as all true prophets do whose prophecies are full filled.
 Mrs. Murray had previously threaten ed to throw vitriol into the witness face though what this had to do with the fire was not shown unless to prove that the prisoner had the hardihood to commit the crime with which she was charged.
 Chas. Miller had carried on a negotia. ton with a second hand man for the sale of the prisoners household goods, the purpose of the prosecution being to show by thIs that Mrs. Murray was clearing Der decks for action.
 Jennie Rogers had bean guest at the beer banquet at 2 o'clock on the morning of the fire and reluctantly ad- mitted that Mrs. Murray told her that she was going to "make it hot" for Annie Marchand and Maggie Harris, an expression, which the prosecution took in its literal sense to describe the the temperature in that vicinity, some two hours later.
 Lottie --- was another of Mrs. Murray's muititudinous enemies. The only time she had eyer visited the prisoner, she went to institute a quar- rel, and on that occasion the prisoner told her that there were going to be sudden and important changes in that neighborhood, as there were soon after.
 It was noticeable fact that all the feminine witnesses so far had given their ages as 25, statements which as- , tOnished the reporter and which he would have accepted with doubt and misgiviDg but for the circumstance that the prisoners were under oath to tell the truth. all the truth and to in troduce no extraneous matter. They looked as if they might have been the remnants of seventeenth century bal let.
 The prosecution had several other witnesses whose testimony was unim- portant and was intended only to sup port the theory that Mrs. Murray had previously got her household goods out of the neigh borhood and was therefore careless and calmly indifferent about fire.
 The last witness was Annie Marchand, who lived in the game house occupied by Mrs. Murray and was her deadliest enemy rendered still more better by the loss of over thousand dollars by the fire. Miss Marchand is forty-six and Pari- sian, but by system of national shrugs and gestures, she managed to make herself understood. Her trouble with Mrs. Murray, she said, arose out of her limited drinking capacity, which made her an object of contempt to the prisoner, who was always thirsty and capacious except when che was full. In one of their quarrels, Mrs. Murray also predicted the holocaust, which de- populated the alley. To further show Mrs. Murray's animus, the witness said: "She also has told me von time, when she vas ongre, zst she would, vat you say, burn my face by means of ze veetriole (accent on last syllable. D What would induce Mrs. Murray to carry out that threat was difficult to un- derstand, unless she contemplated facial changes for the better for Miss Marchand, whose face is almost severe in it's plainness and might be i'm proved as might the face of Mrs Mur- ray and the other female witnesses by the iudicious application of vitriol.
 Another witness got out of the burn- ing house with so great precipition that her costume as she watched the fire consisted of pet lap dog which lay beside her on the floor and which she hastily gathered up and put on as she WAS fleeing out into the gray dawn.
 The defense only tried to show that if Mrs. Murray was the originator of the fire (and there was little doubt of it since it came from her part of the building) that she was so by accident.