ARRESTED ON HONEYMOON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8911, 3 September 1907, Page 1

ARRESTED ON HONEYMOON.

California’s latest sensation is the arrest at San Diego, where the Japanese spy fever rages, of F. H. Magill, a banker, of Clinton, Illinois, and iiis second wife, on a charge of murdering Mrs Magill Ho. 1. Magill, who belongs to a wealthy family, inherited £30,000 a few years ago, and very quickly spent the money. Ho married his first wife in 1890, and lias one daughter. Last year Magill introduced his 17 year old typist as a member of the household" Mrs Magill made no outward signs of protests and, so far as the people generally knew, she and her husband wore on good terms. On May 31st this year Magill called a doctor to his house, and showed him his wife, who was lying dead in bed. Her head was covered with a pillow, which was saturated with chloroform, while at tiie side of tiie bed was a bowl which had evidently contained chloroform. The doctor certified that Mrs Magill had committed suicide. When the inquest was held letters alleged to have been written by Mrs Magill were produced, bidding her friends good-bye, and recommending her husband to marry the typist. On this evidence the jury returned a verdict of “Suicide.” Soon after Magill, his typist, and his daughter disappeared, after the first named iiad turned all his available property into cash. Then news reached Clinton of Magill’s 'second marriage, and tiie friends of the dead woman were so enraged that they demanded the arrest of the husband and the typist. Tiie specific charge against the Ji iriband is that he poisoned 'his wife with strychnine, and after her death saturated her pillow with chloroform in order to mislead the doctor. Both Magill and the girl strongly protest their innocence, and say that there is a conspiracy against them.