The Cairo bulletin., 1908-01-31

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der ease near Benton, Scott county
| NO. are the most startling in nature
ana circumstantial evidence against
Mrs. Hinkle who is accused Of poison
4 ing her husband ami her paramour
James Dutlll have been held under
the charge ~ murder in the first de-
gree.
j The FIRST details to he published Of
this tragedy which occurred last Srn-
lday appeared in The Cairo Bulletin
lof Tuesday, the particulars Of the
awful affair having been telephoned
from Charleston by The Bulletins
correspondent at that place.
The Daily Republican of Cape
lGirardeau, says regarding the case:
Before God did not kill him
| That sentence spoken without
provoeation by Mrs. Cora Hinkle a
moment after her husband died from
lstrychnine poisoning commissions at
itheir home near Benton, the county
seat OF Scott county, Sunday morn
ling. is expected by Prosecuting Attor,
aey n. G. Motley ana the people Of
the town 10 carry tue woman and her
raramonr, James Duyall, to the gal
| lows.
Mrs. Hinkle threatened to commit
suicide after she realized what her
husbands statement meant but Sher
IF L. 2 Gober took her to the Ben
ton Jail and prevented her from car
rying ont her intentions Duyal
whose letters show him to have had
IN understanding with the woman,
vas arrested yesterday afternoon at
Percy. Ill and will be brought back
70 Benton. Sheriff rioDer leaving for
that point this morning.
The letters In the hands OF Prose
cutting Attorney Motley reveal an in
.fauation on the part OF Durall ana q
blot which will make this case a
rival of the Aggie Meyers battle to i
escape the gallows.
"A letter written By Duvall irons
Illinois and Intercepted by Hinkle
last week was found in his hip pocket
after death Hinkle admonish DR.
L. p. Haw. Sheriff Gober AMI Fret
Abbott boarder at the house. to get
tie letter after he died and to hold an
examination into the cause of his
death. making dying statement that
he believed himself poisoned.
The letter read as follows;
Percy, ILL.,. Jan. 20 1908.
Dear Little Darling
Il hope this will find you well. II
leaves me almost crazy The letters 4
am getting 10 not bring word that
Jim Is dead. ] will enclose one that
viii show how hard 1t is going to be h
to get a letter from me to you unless
can write 10 you i'm some other name
besides your own and won't know !
what name to write to until you /
write and tell me what name yor /
want 4
II He Isn't Dead. Leave Him.
Little darling, If he isn't dead | / I
would advise YOU to leave him awhile %
before you come to me. o darling. 1t /
S killing me to be away from YOU
Z YOU leave him be true to me, for {
an as true to yoa as an angel in !
heaven. So be true to me darling. HI
will do with anything until | see yon 4
md If you love me as ! DO you you y
Till do the same for me. won't you. \
little love. You know don't care for a
Inyone but you. r
20 | hope il is 50 that he is OFT of +,
he way for then we would have no 8
rouble. bu. If You leave him awhile
nd when things died down and they \
sw that they could not beg or scare 5
on into going back don't believe II
re would have any trouble. darling y
have written YOU lots OF letters Won B.
ave not got for II you had | know n
GU would have answered some
hings | had asked you. o darling in
re you going TO forsake me after II
ave been 50 true 20 Won? I don't Il
ant you TO do anything that viii get is
S into worse troUbie than we are in "
ut II you will be true and stick 10 r.
ie ! will be true and stick to you. *
nd We viii have our way. You must II
rite to me often. for want to hear p,
'rm you every day. don't know 10
neither you viii get this letter or n
Of. but hope YOU will Il is no use pr
}; me TO address your letters to Ben ia
m. for they will never reach you.
You must manage things over vi
iere and as soon as there is no dan. III
ar we viii be together Let nobody th
sat me out Of yoU. my little darling 90
r my love is yours till my dying IN
- tn
hink'e Fool. Thought Duvall.
% what a fool Jim is. and il Ll
ere you Z would hate 10 live with a til
oil, and YOU know be knows every vi'