Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — MORRISON JURY DISCHARGED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MORRISON JURY DISCHARGED.

Faila to Reach a Verdict In the Eldorm* do, Kan., Murder Case. After deliberating nearly four days, the jury in the famous Jessie Morrison case al Eldorado, Ivan., was discharged without giving q*verdict. The woman who fatally cut Mrs. Oiin G. Castle will have to be tried again. Jealousy and unrequited love have been the elements which the, prosecution has brought prominently before the caurlr since the trial began. Miss Clara Wiley was the belle of Eldorado. She was popular with all classes and was courted by many of the young men, but her affections centered iu Olin G. Castle, who was a stylish young clerk in the leading store of the town. Miss Jessie Morrison, the daughter of a retired judge, was employed in the same store with Castle. The young man of many accomplishments won the heart of his fellow clerk. Miss Morrison wus thrown constantly in his company, and loved the young man with a fervency that was soon to pass beyond all restraint. Castle did net respond to the love of Miss Morrison, and shortly before his marriage with Miss Wiley Cas-

tle requested that Miss Morrison leave the store, her attentions, as he averred, having become so annoying that he was compelled-to-threaten to resign if Misa Morrison was not discharged. Castle and Miss Wiley were married June 13, and June 22, nine days after the wedding, Miss Morrison called on the bride. Accounts vary as to what occurred during her brief stay in the home of the Castles. However, the two women had a duel with a razor, the young bride's throat beiijg cut. When the neighbors rusjped in they fouud Mrs. Castle lying in a pool of her own blood and Jessie Morrison bending over her with a razor clasped in her hand. Miss Morrison’s story was to the effect that she had called on Mrs. Castle, had been accused of being an enemy and led into a quarrel. She claimed that Mrs. Castle went to a bureau drawer, took out a razor and advanced with it open. In the struggle which followed. Miss Morrison said, she was cut by Mrs. Castle in the neck and arm. What became of the razor she said she did not know. Immediately after the trouble Miss Morrison was arrested and released on bail. After Mrs. Castle's death she was again arrested and charged with murder.

JESSIE MORRISON AND HER FATHER.