The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-27
MAG|LL CASE
GENERAL TOPIC
PEOPLE or CLINTON. Ill.
AROUSED AND DIVIDED ON
BOTH SIDES.
CIRCUMSTANCES POINT
Strongly to Quilt Of Prisoner :.
Daughter cBIieves Him Innocent
Letters in Case Said to
Be Forged.

1ilhtOn, H., July 2G.r-With the re
urn of Frederick a Magill and hi
Young bride from San Diego, Cal
where they were arrested to heir oil.
nome IN this city, TO answer tht
cha sc Of administering poison u Ma
gus first Wife, irte,e est in the c7s
| iias greatly increased and large
section OF Illinois is eagerly awaitlue
ariher developments Opinion in the
/ aone town Of HE former banl;er Is
/ divided on the question OF his eIl'lt.
=! While bis past record has not heen
'ltogether creditable he was never
Efown to be guilty of any serious
1ifense and his former friends are of
ae opinion that his present predica
nent is due wholly to his disregard
.oi public opinion in marrying his for
Ter stenographer SC soon after the
dea b Of his wife, On the other hand
there are many persons who do not
hesitate to declare their belief in the
truth Of the grave harges brought
against Magll, and it is not to be de.
Eied that there is strong circum.
tantial evidence against him
Letters Arouse Suspicion.
The letters purportirg to have been
left by the dead woman are peculiar
features Of the case To Mrs. Mag.lPs
night dress was pinned note saying
she had killed herself with strychaine
ana giving directions as to the funeral
There Were three other eommunica
ions found One Of these was ad-
dressed TO Magill another to his
II years old, and third to /
Miss Fay Graham, the second Mrs
Magill, The tenor of these lett RS
we're the same. They exonerated Ma
gill and Miss Graham from all blame
Mss Graham was mentioned as the
sest friend Mrs Magili had. Tne
amer, uaugnter ana MISS Graham
we're advised to stick to each other,
md the daughter was told to approve
her father did. Magill
cad these letters to many friends,
nut no one outside of the coroner's
TRY has seen them. The coroner's
inquest, at the behest of Magill, was
onducted with secrecy, the coroner
efusing TO make any details public.
t is the theory of the states attorney s
hat Magill, aided by Miss Graham,
oncocted the letter scheme and that
he woman wrote them at his dicta- /
ion
Raises His Last Cent.
After the death of his wife and his J
ecision to marry Fay Graham, Magill
-ho had already squandered a fortune
lade final stand in the direction of a
Ioney matters. He sold his house
nd lot, it is said drew his last dollar
-om his fathers estate and got to-
ether $4,000. With this money he \
nd Miss Graham and his daughter, {
Iiss Marguerite, left Clinton secretly
n June 30 last. No one knew the 7
estimation of the trio. Miss Graham.
no is the daughter of respected
asidents of Clinton, led them to be- c
eve that she was going to Chicago L
secure work as a stenographer.
agill and Miss Graham were mar \
ed in Denver on July 5. They then S
roceeded to make leisurely tour Of
lie west On July 13 the pair were II
rested at San Diego, Cal Both de- T
ared that their trouble was the re-
lit of a conspiracy on the part of the
mily of the first MIS-. Magill K
Circumstances of Womans Death. n
The first MIS-. Magill was Miss Pet
andy of Dayton, Ohio. The couple
ere married in 1889. Mrs. Magiil
as woman of happy disposition and
)ne of her friends had ever heard 7
sr say anything that would lead to
e belief that she contemplated TAX
G her own life. On the evening of
ay so last she and her husband were
II riding, and they apparently were
good humor and enjoying the out
e. The following morning Mrs. Ma -
II was found dead in bed. The body =
as found by MagiIl With HIS wife
, had retired at the usual hour the
eceding night. He testified at the
quest that his wife had left the bed
Iring the night and gone to an ad-
ining room. After the body was -,
urd the family physician pronounced ?
.ath due to chloIoform. a bowl of the =,
ug being found. and a cloth. satu- y,
ted with it, was found upon her :,
outh. NJ
Public Suspicion Aroused. =
The sudden death of Mrs. Magill, I"
e departure of Magill and Miss Ora -
IN from Clinton and the news re- >
ived Of their early marriage caused e
end Of gossip in their home town ~
he pressure of public opinion be :.
ne 50 strong that the states attor- ~
y felt forced to take radical action N
2 ordered an Investigation t0 he u
sde into the Circumstances of Mrs lt'
agilIs death and in the meantime re
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