The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-31
CHARGES OF MURDER DlSMIS. sED AGAINST HUSBAND AND
 SISTER OF HAsSELMAN.
WHITTINGTON IN INITIATIVE
Surrounded by His Friends When Liberated, Husband Cries to Be Taken at Once to the body
 of His Dead Wife.

That justice had been outraged as seldom before in any community when Gus Hasselman, a dairyman, and Mrs. Ruby Rose. had been ar. .ested Sunday, and held into custody until yesterday afternoon, on charges of murdering Mrs. Gus Hasselman wife of one of the defendants and sister of the othsr, was the unquall- fed statement of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Wilmington, yesterday af- ternoon after the flimsy evidence up on which the prosecution had been based had been developed before Jus tice DeVall
 Tears filed the eyes of Hassell- man Mrs. Rose, and their friends, as at the conclusion of the evidence that had been placed at the disposal of the state by the prosecuting wit ness, the mother of the dead woman, the case was dismissed with a denun- citation of the act of taking a hus- band from the bier of his dead wife, sister from the bier of her dead sister, and both from the care of two infant children. to have them thrown into jail to be there detained on a charge of murder, when there was not even good suspicion upon which to base such charge.
 The prosecuting witness was the mother of Mrs. Rose, and the moth CT. Mrs. Ella Ridgeway, on the stand. testified without quiver or feeling to the incidents, upon which she had accused one daughter of the murder of another w. w. Ridgeway, step father. and Mrs. Ella Ridgeway, moth CT of the dead girl and the girl ac- cused of murder, and stepmother of Gus Hasselman. were the only prose cutting witnesses.
 The prosecution had come from the Ridgsways Without consulting the prosecuting attorneys office, or the coroner, or other officials to whom such matter should have been re ported for investigation, Mrs. Ridge way engaged Attorney James L. Ora ham, and swore out warrant before Justice of the Peace DeVall Sunday, charging Hassellman and Mrs. Ruby Rose. with murdering Mrs. Jewell Hasselman, by administering joison.
 On the information furnished Jus tice DeVall, there was nothing to do but issue the warrants, which was done. and early Sunday morning Deputy Constable Sam Tate and Tom ]. Gladson went to the home of the Hasselman's, where in the presence of the dead body of Mrs. Hasselman, they put under arrest Hasselman and Mrs. Rose, a sister to Mrs. Hassel- man.
 The two little children of the dead woman. Lloyd. aged years, and Cal win, aged 10 months, were turned over to the custody of neielhbors, and the husband and sister were taken to iail. The body was afterwards sent to McCaffertys morgue to he held until some disposal could be made of it. Now that Hasselman has been exonerated of the charge, the funeral will be held this morn ing from the modest little home in which the woman died on Henderson avenue. and the husband and sister, who had been accused of the crime will be in attendance.
 The statements from Deputy whit tington of the great injurtiee done m this unwarranted prosecution dld not stop with reference to the immeas' urable injury done the husband and sister in tearing them from the pody of the woman they had nursed ant cared for with tender interest untll she had died, nor with the in1urtice done the little children orphaned when their mother passed away ana thev were left 10 the care or frlendly r!ighbors, but the reference from the deputy prosecutor extended to the injury done the community when there was exploited all over the coun try the charge that a mother mad made that one of her daughters, con spring with her son-in-law, had pois oned the other. implying dastardly act so revolting in it's detail as tc prejudice people against the whole section of a country.
 And be it said to the credit of the officials that the prosecuting attor ney. nor the coroner, nor any of the officers had even the opportunity oi preventing such charge, the affall being put directly I'D to the justice of the peace and the constable, II such manner that there was nc alternative other than to issue ane serve the warrants. and await an in