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THE GRAHAM MURDER.Interest Renewed »s the Rate or the Trial Ihrowa Hear.Sentinel will the folio w-The readers of the doubtless be interested in ing interview concerning the Grabam-Molloy case. It is an interview taken from the Fort Wayne Gazette. The Gazette reporter says: Since the announcement that the Springfield jury had found a true indictment against Mrs. Molloy, charging her with being accessory to the murder of Sarah Graham, and also to the bigamous marriage of Graham and Cora Lee, public interest seems to have re-awakened and theories are plentiful as the actual part she played in the tragedy and her object therein. By the death of George Graham and Frank Molloy, the most damaging evidence is silenced.Perhaps 110 one individual rendered more assistance to the authorities in ferreting out and clearing up tangled threads of evidence that John F. Cal-len, the Kansas City Daily Journal's reportorial detective: he was who assumed the role of an attorney and got a confession of murder out of George Graham and was afterwards an eye witness to his execution at the hands of the mob. Mr. Callen being town on business, the Gazette reporter called on him last evening for an interview, the result of which is contained in the following:Being ushered into his peesence the Gazette man was somewhat surprised at lincling a sociable, happy looking, robust gentleman of thirty or thereabouts, with a merry laughing disposition that certainly evinced anything but the sleuth like, perserving nature he is posessed of, and that his vein has been utilized on numerous occasions in discovering criminals and exposing frauds. After the usual preliminaries were over he said:Cora Lee, who was in momentary danger of the citizens of Brookline, but while he was confiding enough to state that he murdered his ;-wife he lied about the manner in jwhich it was done. He positively dhnied shooting her, yet on the garments that were found in the well were the powder pburns an the bullet hole, but George Graham had denied all presence of a pistol, and witnesses had testified that Graham left his revolver at home with Cora Lee when he went to meet his wife, hence a pistol shot wound would necessarily have brought Cora Lee to the scene of the tragedy, and if the true story of the case is ever revealed it will be found that Cora Lee came to Springfield in a rage and drove Mrs. Graham to the spot where she met her death, and left her and Her husband at the lower gate, and after putting up the horse returned to where the two people were quarreling and fired the shot that killed Sarah Graham. The excitement of the moment made her lose control of her senses, and she shot her victim in the right side instead of through the heart. The stricken woman screamed and was thrown down hr Graham, who plunged a knife into her neck with one hand while he held her throat with the other. This is borne out by the fact that all the blood found was in the hood of the gossamer cloak, and if she had remained ^stand-ing one instant after she was shot there would have been blood trickling down on the garments worn next to the wound, but there was not a sign. Again, it would have been impossible for George Graham and his wife to walk to the farm, for the lowest ford on the river they had to cross was four feet deep, owing to the continued rain for weeks.The trial, which was set for next Monday, will have to bo postponed,
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Elkhart Sentinel
Elkhart, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 25, 1886
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