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ast, three of them were convicted for the crime, and are now serving time in the penitentiary at Santa Fe. If the information from Mexico is correct, they are probably not guilty of the crime for which they are serving time, and will doubtless be pardoned. A Serious Charge Wednesday evening about 5 o’clock, Mrs. Mary Luke, wife of Thomas Luke, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by her husband on the charge of attempting to poison him. She was placed under bond of $1000 by Judge Givens. She gave the bond and was released.

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d. A Serious Charge Wednesday evening about 5 o’clock, Mrs. Mary Luke, wife of Thomas Luke, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by her husband on the charge of attempting to poison him. She was placed under bond of $1000 by Judge Givens. She gave the bond and was released. An Enterprise man called on Mr. Luke, who has been at the hospital for the past week, and from him obtained the details of the trouble between himself and wife. Mr. Luke states that for the past eight months his wife had given him morphia with cracked ice and water, and that he did not know it until he had formed the habit and could not live without it. He noticed at different times the bitterness in the water, but attributed it to his liver, which was out of order. It was his wife’s custom to fix the cracked ice and water in a goblet with the drug, which he usually drank soon after supper. After drinking the water he became so sleepy that he always retired almost immediately. This went on for some time, before he made the discoveiy that he was being drugged. On several occa- sions he awoke during the night and found his wife lying on the bed with her clothes on. He was sure that she was disrobed early in the evening, at the time he retired. He was satis- fied that after he fell asleep his wife dressed ( 64 )