The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-27
MAC|LL CASE
GENERAL TOPIC
PEOPLE OF CLINTON ~.
AROUSED AND DIVIDED ON
BOTH SIDES.
CIRCUMSTANCES POINT
Strongly to Guilt OF Prisoner :.
Daughter eBieves Him Innocent
Letters in Case Said to
BE Forged.

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: Clinton, ILL.,, July 2G.-With the ,
urn OF Frederick a Magill ana h
, Young bride from San Diego. ca
where they were arrested to heir q
home in this city, to answer n
, charge Of administering poison to M
: gills first wife, Interest in the cos
mas greatly increased and a l1r2
section Of Illinois is eagerly awaitiu
atriher developments. Opinion IN in
zone town of he former banker
divided on the question of his gu'l
4 WAlle his past record has not hea
! 'logether creditahle he was neya
e own 10 be guilty of any serion
! 2iren g and his former friends are q
/ ~ opinion that his p; esent predics
nent is due wholly to his disregar
81 pabllc opinion in marrying his fol
| fer stenographer Sc Don after tb,
dea j Of his wife, On the other hand
there are many persons who do no
hesitate to declare their belief in Tx
truth Of the grave sharges brought
aeainst Magill. and It is not to be de
Tied that there is strong circum
tantial evidence against him.
Letters Arouse Suspicion.
The letters puTportirg to have bean
left by the dead woman are peculiar
features Of the case To Mrs Mae;lPs
night d. ess was pinned note saving
she had killed herself with strychaiue
ana giving directions as to the funeral
There we,e three other communica.
ions found. One of these was ad.
dressed to Magil. another to his
daughter, n years old, and a third TO
Miss Fay Graham, the second Mrs
Magill. The tenor of these letters
were the same. They exonerated Ma
sill and Miss Graham from all blame.
Miss Graham was mentioned as the
best friend Mrs. Magill had. The
amer uauEuler ana MISS trranam
were advised 10 stick to each other,
md the daughter was told to approve
lftl yAHlHS uei idtittI ulu, MdSlll
'ead these letters to many friends,
)ut no one outside of the coroner's
Ery has seen them. The coyoners
inquest, at the behest of Magill, was
conducted with secrecy, the coroner
to make any details public.
{ is the theory of the states attorney
hat Magll aided by Miss Graham,
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 |
ecision to marry Fay Graham, Magill |
Who had already squandered a fortune |
made a final stand in the direction of !
loney matters. He sold his house !
nd lot, it Is said, drew his last dollar |
rom his fathers estate and got to- |
ether $4,000 With this money he |
nd Miss Graham and his daughter
Hiss Marguerite. left Clinton secretly |
n June 80 last. No one knew the
estimation of the trio. Miss Graham.
tho is the daughter of respected
of Clinton, led them to be-
eve that she was going to Chicago
} secure work as a stenographer.
Tagill and Miss Graham were mar
ed in Denver on July 5. They then
roceeded to make a leisurely tour Of
he west On July 13 the pair were
rrested al San Diego, Cal. Both de-
Jared that their trouble was the re-
llt of conspiracy on the part of the
lmily of the first Mrs. Magill. il
Circumstances of Woman's Death.
The first MIS-. Magill was Miss Pet
andy of Dayton. Ohio. The couple
ere married in 1889. Mrs. Magiil
as a woman of happy disposition and
one of her friends had ever heard
or say anything that would lead to
lie belief that she contemplated TAX
e her own life. On the evening of
ay 30 last she and her husband were
II riding, and they apparently were
good humor and enjoying the out
g. The following morning Mrs Ma
II was found dead in bed The body
as found by Magill. With his wife
; had retired at the usual hour the
eceding night. He testified at the
quest that. his wife had left the bed
ring the night and gone TO an ad-
lining room. After the body was
urd the family physician pronounced
'ath due to chloIoform. bowl of the
ug being found. and a cloth. satu-
ted with it, was found upon her
outh.
Public Suspicion Aroused.
The sudden death Of Mrs. Nagill. 4
e departure Of Magili and Miss Grs-
m from Clinton and the news re-
lived Of their early marriage caused
end OF gossip in their home town.
he pressure Of public OPTION be
ne 50 strong that the states atto-- Z
v felt forced to take radical action.
E ordered an Investigation - be
a1e into the Circumstances of Mrs. q
agill death and in the meantime 2