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VOLUME VL.

LEGAL NEWS
MONDAY

The will of Florance N. Montgomery, late of Greenwood, was flied for probate today. All property is bequeathed to her infant daughter, Hearlette, whom she awards to the custody of C. N. Folsom of Ashland.
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Remose Overtook Her.
Mabel Stafford, a demi-mondaine, who for the past eight months has been an inmate of the house at 800 N street, kept by Mrs. Anna Jones, suicided in the rooms of her lover, Emil Semmelroth, above Fisher & Westover's blacksmith shop, 920 N street, at 9:30 o'clock last night. Her companion, Mrs. Neille Walker, as soon as she realized what the girl had done, rushed out and meeting Officer Sipe, told him of the occurence. He telephoned for Captain Otto and Dr. Graham. When they arrived at the scene, the girl was dead.
Dr. Holyoke, the county coroner, was notified. and this morning he held an inquest at the rooms. The jury pressed into service consisted of John Cochran, Fred Claus, O. P. Dinges, All Beach, A. Hill and Ed. Hoffman.
Mrs. Nellie Walker was the first witness. She testifed that the girl had left the house to come to the rooms about 6 and soon afterwards Mabel said she was going out. Witness wanted to go with her, but she said she could be back in few minutes. Came back in half an hour. Witness was lying on one of the two beds in the room, and asked Mabel what she was doing, the girl stopping in the outer room, which contained only a desk. After repeating the question several times, Mabel walked into the room, and throwing a small bottle at her remarked : " That's what I've doing" The label read, eighth of an ounce of strychnine, but the girl would not belive but what Mabel was joking. She protested that she had taken all of it, and in a few minutes afterwards fell over on the bed dead.
Emil Semelroth, the young fellow with whom the girl was staying, said he was a clerk for the Lincoln Saddlery Co ; had known the deceased for nearly three years, ever since he has been in the city.
The girl had requested to come up to his room, and they had no quarrel whatever, Mabel seeming as cheerful as ever.
When she returned from down town, he asked her what she had been doing ; she showed him the empty bottle and told him to look in the pall. She died in a few minutes.
Captain Otto stated that the girl was dead when he arrived, and he secured the bottle, and moved the bed out into the front room. A drug clerk. from 117 North Eleventh street, said the girl had purchased 50 cents worth of strynchine to poison was rats with. giving her name as Mrs. R. B. Ingersoll. There was enough in the bottle to kill eighty people.
The suicide is about 30 years of age, a well built, attractive looking woman.
The poison has turned her skin almost black, its effects being to stop the circulation immediately. The woman has a husband. Will Stafford by name, who is at present in Fort Scott, Kas. Her father's name is Gillesple, and he is propietor of coal office in Halstead, Kas. She borrowed the 50 cents from Semmelroth to get the poison.
The girl has always been a cheerful dispostion, according to the testimony of associates, but last week she told them that she intended to kill herself at the end of the week. The other day she proposed to Mrs. Jones that she buy some muslin, then Mabel would kill herself and have some excitement. Saturday she took eighteen morphine pills, but as she was used to it they did not feaze her.
It is probable that remorse overtook her sooner than its does many of her class.
Undertaker Roberts took charge of the body, and the funerl will take place from 800 N street at 2 o'clock tomorow afternoon.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the girl came to her death by strychine administered by her own hand with sucidal intent.
The Morning Session.
The begining of the third week of the Sheedy- McFarland trail opend this morning. The audience in attendance was comparatively small, and made up very largely of people of the male pursuasion.
Monday McFarland entered the court room with a more bouyant stop and visibly heightened spirits. He was at once engaged in earnest conversation. with Co. Billigsley, with wome the negro had a long and earnest conference.
Mrs. Sheedy was attended, as usual by her uncle, Col. Biggerstaff, and two of her sisters, Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Baker.
Her bearing was rather indifferent, but reserved until Detecive Jim Malone was called to the stand, when she became all attention and looked daggers at the auriferous haired but impertubable minion of the law, who appears to have camped uncomfortably close upon her trail in the case at bar. Her hattred of Melick and Malone is only equalled by the intense dislike shown on every occasion by Counsel Strode, her leading counsel.