The Irish standard., 1907-08-03
MRS. M'C|LL'S DEATH
DUE TO CHL0R0FORM
CHICAGO CHEMIST, WHO EXAM.
INED WoMAN's ORGANS,
MAKES REPORT.
SUICIDE PACT HELD
BY STATES ATTORNEY
kpecial Assistant Prosecutor Con.
tends That Evidence Of Previous
Death Agreement Is Ground for
Conviction Of Clinton Ex-Banker.

Clinton, ILL.,. Aug. Mrs. Pet Ma,
gill died of chloroform poisoning"
This is the report of the Chicago
gans, before noon Wednesday by Lot
H. Herrick. special assistant states
attorney, preparing the evidence for
the special grand jury. mo traces of
strychnine We're found" continued
Mr.. Herrick. who had just emerged
from States Attorney Miller's office.
However the chemists report does
not. weaken our case We contend
that suicide compact existed be-
tween Fred Magill and his wife, Mrs.
Pct Candy Magill. The law makes
1t a murder if one person agrees with
another to commit suicide and DELHI
erately deceives the other person. If
one person to the compact fails to
carry out the agreement, it is man.
slaughter. If deliberate deceit is
shown, 1t is murder. That will be
our case"
Brings Chemists Report.
DR.. George H. Edmonson, mayor of
Clinton. returned here at 2:3O a. M,
after flying trip to Chicago Tues
day night, bringing with him the re-
port Of the chemical analysis of Mrs.
Pet Magill's organs which was given
to him Tuesday night by Dr. Adolph
Gehrmann of the Columbus labora-
tories. The report was handed by
Mayor Edmonson. to States Attorney
Miller at ten a. m. It was real later
to the special grand jury which is in
vestigating the charge made against
Fred H. Magill and Faye Graham
Magill. his second wife, that they are
responsible for the death of MagilIs
first wife
indictments May Be Voted Soon.
Around the grand jury room where
the fourth day of the investigation
was begun the rumor was freely cir
culated that an Indictment would be
voted against Magill before the close
Of the day and that one might also
be voted against his Wife Only three
prospective witnesses were waiting to
be called.
E. P. Bently, editor of the Clinton
Public, told the jurors of converse
ton with Magill in which the latter is
said to have limited that his wife tried
to put him to sleep the night she COM
mitted suicide in order that she could
carry out her plans without his inter.
ference
Fred told me" said Bently, chat
about one a. M, May 81, his wife
| woke up and asked him to bring up a
bottle of beer from the basement.
He said when he brought it to her
she poured out two glasses. She
drank hers, but Fred threw the CON
tents of his glass into the sink. He
told me he thought his wife wanted to
drug him so that he would go to
sleep and leave her to kill herself as
she had planned to do"
Magill's Cousin on the Stand.
Mrs. A. II. Phares. Fred Magill's
cousin, who testified Tuesday, was
recalled. She was asked If she had
made the remark that pet will do
herself up soon" One Of the wit.
nesses before the grand jury said
Mrs. Phares had made that comment
on Mrs. Magill's apparent mental
condition.
After coming out Of the grand jury
room Mrs. Phares would not saw
whether or not she substantiated the
report.
Mrs. w. w. Graham, mother of
Faye Graham Magill, declared she
would be able to prove by six wit
nesses that her daughter was at home
asI0:30 p. m. the night preceding Pet
Magill's death.
"She got in the door Just az the
clock struck the half-honr after ten"
said Mrs. Graham. ut was little
after six o'clock the next morning
when Margaret Magill called up on
the telephone. answered the call
and woke up Faye. 1t is not true that
Faye left the house before FIVE o'clock
as some people say"
Calls Faye Pet MagiII's Friend.
This talk that Faye was a secret
enemy Of Pet Magill is absurd. MY
daughter never had more devoted
fsiend in her life than Pet. Our fam
flies have been the best of friends for
years. My parents and Pets parents
were reared in the same community
in Ohio. When Fred Magill married
Pet Candy the two boarded at my
mothers house in Clinton. There is
no doubt that Pet committed suicide
She said so herself and she was right
here one evening in my home when
she vowed she would do 1t, and. all
the family was present
Mrs. Graham declared that up to
the time of her daughters marriage
to Fred Magill she had never thought
Of sach a union and both she and her
husband would have opposed the mar
riage and it was for that reason, she
thought, Faye did not take her into
her confidence.
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