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WHETHER innocent or guilty, (and a prisioner is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty) one cannot but help admiring the nerve and composure of Mrs.Sheedy in the ordeal through which she has been passing. A woman in peril or distress is always an object of interest and pity to mankind, and Mrs.Sheedy is receiving her modicum of both. The prosecution has been weaving a web of strong circumstantial evidence around her, yet her spirit does not seem in the least broken, and she is making a strong fight for life with such odds against her. The defense promise some convincing evidence of her innocence, and it is possibly the the knowledge of this that has sustained her in a trail here ninety-nine in a hundred would have weakened.