Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 4
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August  14, 1902
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GRAHAM ACQUITTED.
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Jury Returns Verdict of
Not Guilty Monday Morning
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Liberty After Two year's Con
finement.
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       The jury in the Eugene Graham case brought in a verdict of not guilty at 10 o'clock Monday after being out since Friday afternoon last.
       The case has been one of the most noted in the history of the courts and was hotly contested by the attorneys from the beginning.
       Eugene was indicted, with his brother Guy, charged with the murder of Allie Boswell in February 1900 in Robertson county and both were convicted and given a term of years in the penitentiary.  From this verdict both the defendants appealed and the court of criminal appeals reversed and remanded both cases.
       They were then changed to Falls county upon the motion of the trial judge.  Habeas corpus proceedings followed but they were denied bail and the case against Eugene came on to be heard Tuesday August 5th, after having been reset for that date.
       There were a number of witnesses to be examined and three full days was consumed in the taking of testimony.  Another day was consumed in the arguments by the lawyers.
       From the beginning the jury stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction.  It seemed for two days that there was no probability of a verdict, but this morning the juror who disagreed with the other eleven agreed to an acquittal and they were discharged by the district clerk, by agreement, in the absence of Judge Scott.
       The information was received by the defendants at the of the wife to where he had been taken Saturday, being too ill to go to jail.  The information was first conveyed to him by Z. I. Harlan one of his attorneys.  It is needless to say that the defendant and his wife were overcome with joy at the glad news.  And right here it may be said, that no where in rhyme or prose, fact or fiction is there recorded an instance of a more loyal devotion to man than this case has brought out.  When the defendant was charged with the grave crime of which he has just been acquitted this young woman was Miss Mattie Lusk, and resided near Travis in this county.  They were lovers and had plighted their vows and the marriage took place while Eugene was a prisoner in the Franklin jail.
       Through all the long months that have followed this brave little woman has stood by her husband with words of courage and deeds of love, never for once wavering in the belief that the man whose name she had taken was innocent and using every legitimate means at her command to secure a verdict of acquittal.  Through all the long months of intense suffering from bodily pain, she has administered to the wants of her prisioner (sic) husband with a devotion known only of a woman; as "a ministering angel," winning the fervent admiration of all, regardless of their views as to the innocence or guilt of her accused husband.

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