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Acquitted Of The Charge

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
December
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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West Bay City. Dec. 9.- Mrs. Maggie Andrews, on trial for setting fire to i tenement house belonging to Hon. John Welch, was acquitted in the circuit court. The trial occupied three days. The building was occupied by Mrs. Andrews and caught fire three times within as many hours. She was seen using an oilcan in a back room where the fire caught and in the room rubbish was found covered with oil, but the jury censidered the circumstantial eridence scarcely strong enough for conviction.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News