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FORMAL CHARGE OF MURDER

Information filed Against, Monday McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy.

THE INDICTMENT CONTAINS SIX COUNTS.

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LINCOLN, Neb., March 12, - [Special to THE BEE.] - County Attorney Snell filed this morning in the district court an information charging Monday McFarland and Mrs. Mary Sheedy with murder in the first degree and accessory before the fact. There are six counts in all, heavily laden with legal verbiage and which consume about a dozen pages of type written copy. The counts practically are as follows:

1. Monday McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy are charged with conspiring, combining, confederating and agreeing together to unlawfully, knowingly, purposely and feloniously and with deliberate and premeditated malice kill and murder John Sheedy, by an assault with a cane and that afterwards four grains of morphine were administered.

2. McFarland is charged with making an assault with a cane and Mrs. Sheedy with aiding, abetting and procuring him to poison John Sheedy.

3. This count charges McFarland with an assault with a cane and Mrs. Sheedy with aiding, abetting and procuring him to do so.

4. That in some manner unknown, four grains of morphine were administered to John Sheedy, and McFarland is charged with aiding, abetting and procuring Mrs. Sheedy to administer the same to John Sheedy.

5. That McFarland committed the assault with a cane and that both he and Mrs. Sheedy administered morphine.

6. This count charges that John Sheedy came to his death by a blow from a cane and that McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy, the accused, were the principals in committing the assault.

The county attorney was forced to file this information, as the district judge declared that he would admit Mrs. Sheedy to bail if an information was not filed before 3 p.m.

Coroner Holyoke says that the four grains of morphine mentioned must be a guess, because as far as he knows the chemist at Ann Arbor has not yet reported the result of the analysis.