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FOUND NO TRACE OF POISON.

Report of the Chemlet's Investigation of Sheedy's Murder.

THEORY AS TO THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.

A Negro's Frightful Fall--Bank Examiner Brink Reagne---A Fractured Skull---Died on the Streey---State News.

LINCOLN, NEb., April 9.---[Special Telegram to THE BEN.]---The chemist at Ann Arbor to whom was submitted an analysis of the contents of the stomach of John Sheedy, the murdered man, has finally completed his work and reported. The result is one that will probably save Mrs. Sheedy from a felon's punishment, as the chemist declares that there was no trace whatever of poison in the stomach of the murdered man. He adds, however, that morphine might have been given, but as the evidences of that drug pass away in a few hours of course he could find no trace of it in the stomach. It is therefore thought that the death of Sheedy was caused either by morphine or by the blow from the cane in the hands of Monday McFarland.

One or two of the physicians who saw Sheedy before his death declared that he showed evidence of morphine poisoning. As the physicians who held the post mortem found no blood clot in the brain the morphine poisoning theory is thought to be the correct one, but as there is nothing to prove it Mrs. Sheedy will probably go free.