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CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.

Mrs.Sheedy, McFarland and Walstrom Will Be Tried for Murder

IMPORTANT EVIDENCE NOT PUBLISHED.

Verdict of the Coroner a Jury- A Reciever for the collapsed Hastings Bank- A Attempted Suicide - A Farmer's Mishap

LINCOLN, Neb. Jan. 23- [Special to THE BEE]- The preliminary hearing of Mrs.Mary Sheedy. Monday McFarland and A. Harry Walstrom for the murder of John Sheedy on the night on January 11, was to have taken place before Judge Houstan this morning, but by consent of all the attorneys in the case it was continues until next week, the date to be fixed hereafter.

Shortly after 1 o'clock the jury came to a verdict, having decided that there was evidence enough without waiting for the result of the analysis of the contents of the stomach. The verdict was handed to the coroner shortly after 2 o'clock. The document is a long one and full of technical terms, but in brief the jury finds that on the first count John Sheedy came to his death on the night of January 11, 1891, by blow administered by Monday McFarland with a steel cane covered with leather, and holding Mrs. Mary Sheedy and Andre Harry Walstrom as accessories.

The second count charges Mrs. Mary Sheedy with the murder of her husband and finds that she did administer a certain mixed preparation of deadly poison of John Sheedy and holds Monday McFarland and Andrew Harry Walstrom as accessories.

The Jurymen acknowledge that some of the most important testimony has not yet been made public.

The Verdict meets with general public approval.