The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-27
WEIGLE ARRAIGNED
 IN TEXAS COURT
YOUNG MAN FROM ANNIsToN WHO KILLED HIS WIFE AND TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF FACES A CHARGE OF MURDER.

Anniston, March 26. = (Speeial)-Lee Weigle, charged with the murder of his bride, nee Miss Marion Quinn, was ar- raigned for trial at New Boston, Texas. The state Is represented by County Att torney Horace Vaughn, District Attorney Hiram ONeal and Fred L. Blackmon of Anniston. Yesterday was consumed by the defense in an argument for a con tinuance which was overruled by the presiding judge and the case will go to trial today, the first thing on the docket. A special venire of 110 men has been subpoenaed for the case and the trial Will be before Special Judge Turner. The trial of Lee weigle will recall the hor- rible murder of former Anniston young lady and upon this man public opinion has set it's gaze as her murderer. The couple were married here on one Friday afternoon and the following Tuesday came the sad and horrible intelligence from far off Arkansas that the bride ot four days had been found dead in Tex arkana hotel with her throat cut from ear to ear and the man was found still alive but his death was momentarily ex- pected. By good attention he was re- stored to health and Is now on trial for the deed Miss Quinn, the young lady murdered, had lived the larger part or her life in Anniston and was immensely pouular In the city. Her remains were eent here and entered in the family lot at Hillside cemetery.
 MT, All. Quinn, a brother Of the de- ceased, is now in New Boston attending the trial.
 Mrs. Staff Captain Widgery of Atlanta will visit the local post of the Salvation Army during next week and will remain in the city a week. Captain Patterson officer in charge, announces that on the night of April 1 Mrs. Widgery will lec- ture at the Oxford Methodist church and on Sunday night, April B. she will lec- ture at the First Baptist church of this city. Her subject for the occasions will he .Prison Life in the East Indies.
 II N Randall of Birmingham, south ern organizer for the American Fedora ton of Labor, addressed the Moulders' and the Car Builders unions at their hall last night. On next Tuesday night he will deliver an address before the Anniston Trades council in the council hall.
 L. l.. Yates of Oxford brought to the city yesterday a most valuable and re- markably preserved relic of the memor- able presidential campaign of 1S40. It is a souvenir handkerchief of large dimen- sions printed in red-the color as well pre- served as If printed yesterday-of mem orable events in the life of William Hen ry Harrison. In the center Is a large picture of the President on his charger; underneath him, picture of the nation- al White House, which he gained the right to enter as place of abode after one of the most memorable campaigns in the history of this country Around him are scenes of his birthplace-a humble log cabin in the woods at South Bend, Ohio-The Farmer of North Bend; the Battle of Tippecanoe; Treaty with the Indians: Crossing the Thames
 The handkerchief was the property of M. L. Yates, the father of the present owner, who died six years ago, and was sacredIy kept by nim from that cam paign all through the intervening years.