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THE SHEEDY MURDER.

The Trial to Take Place in Two Weeks.

It Will be an Interesting Case and Will be Vigorously Contested.

The attorneys on both sides in the Sheedy case express a readiness for trial and if nothing now unforeseen occurs the trial will come off on schedule time. Judge Fields will hear the case and it will be prosecuted by County Attorney Snell assisted by Hon. G. M. Lambertson and F. M. Hall. The attorneys for the defense of Mrs. Sheedy are Stearns and Strode and for McFarland Billingsley and Woodward and J. E. Philpot. The securing of a jury will be no small amount of work and it is probable that two or three days will no small amount of work and it is probable that two or three days will be required while hundreds of citizens will be found who will be exempt from jury duty for cause County Attorney Snell state yesterday that the report of the chemist who had examined the stomach of the murdered man had been received by the prosecuting attorneys nearly six weeks since, but as to the report upon the question of poison he refused to state what had been the result. It is freely stated, however, that NO POISON WAS FOUND and that the charge in the information that John Sheedy was killed with morphine is to cover the foundation for a circumstantial evidence prosecution. The fact, however, that no poison was found will have a great weight in public opinion on the question of Mrs. Sheedy's guilt and it certainly is a long step forward in the defense that no direct evidence was found. Under the intense interest that this case has awakened from the first, the court house will be crowded from start to finish in the trial and the case is one that will put all the attorneys on their mettle and prove of more interest than any trial held in this county for years.

THE SHEEDY MURDER.

The Trial to Take Place in Two Weeks.

It Will be an Interesting Case and Will be Vigorously Contested.

The attorneys on both sides in the Sheedy case express a readiness for trial and if nothing now unforeseen occurs the trial will come off on schedule time. Judge Fields will hear the case and it will be prosecuted by County Attorney Snell assisted by Hon. G. M. Lambertson and F. M. Hall. The attorneys for the defense of Mrs. Sheedy are Stearns and Strode and for McFarland Billingsley and Woodward and J. E. Philpot. The securing of a jury will be no small amount of work and it is probable that two or three days will no small amount of work and it is probable that two or three days will be required while hundreds of citizens will be found who will be exempt from jury duty for cause County Attorney Snell state yesterday that the report of the chemist who had examined the stomach of the murdered man had been received by the prosecuting attorneys nearly six weeks since, but as to the report upon the question of poison he refused to state what had been the result. It is freely stated, however, that NO POISON WAS FOUND and that the charge in the information that John Sheedy was killed with morphine is to cover the foundation for a circumstantial evidence prosecution. The fact, however, that no poison was found will have a great weight in public opinion on the question of Mrs. Sheedy's guilt and it certainly is a long step forward in the defense that no direct evidence was found. Under the intense interest that this case has awakened from the first, the court house will be crowded from start to finish in the trial and the case is one that will put all the attorneys on their mettle and prove of more interest than any trial held in this county for years.