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MRSIWITWERPUZZLEIStiHeld on The Charge of Suspicion at Dayton.FOURTEEN DEATHSREPORTEDRelatives and In FamWhere 8heWasEmployed—Chemists’ Examination 80Far Reveals Nothing—Incidents of the Woman’sLife At Middletown.Dayton, (ct 8. lcrea.se andProf. Ilussell Elliott, teacher ofCONFIRM SUSPICIONchemistry in Steele high school, made already held against Mrs. Wltwer, they known last night to Coroner Hatcher are far from meeting the expectation the result of his examination of the' of the officers in their investigations.irugs found at the home of Mrs. MaryMrs. Wltwer is a woman of intelli-Relle Witwer, suspected of poisoning I gence. She is an excellent house* her sister, Mrs. Anna Pugh, and other I deeper, a first-class nurse and her relatives and persons with whom she I aeighlnrs have spoken in praise of her had been associated. Of twelve differ-1 conduct about the home. Since living ent kinds of drugs found at Mrs. Wit* I in Daytoa she has been a member of wer’s home, Prof. Elliott examined I the Hartford Street and Riverdale eleven, and found no traces of poison. I United Brethren churches and was He did not examine the other drug, I active in the pursuit of church work.but will today. The report ofTHE CHEMISTHer friends were shocked at the suspicions directed against her.was expected to reveal some substan-l COMPLETE LIST OF DEATHS, tlal evidence which would warrant the I The coroner, who showed considercaseretention of the prisoner.Coroner natcher was slightly de-1 fid not take the step of ordering Mrs. pressed over the partial report of the I Witwer’s arrest until after a consulta chemist, Prof. Elliott. “We have a I tlon with Prosecutor U. S. Martin.lot of suspicious matter,” said heIThe complete list of sudden deathsI‘but absolutely nothing which will | whose occurrence present so strikingjolncidences was obtained yesterday.clinch the case.“Mrs. Witwer is one of the coldest I Her first husband, Luther Swanger of and most Indifferent women 1 have I Lebanon, O, died from smallpox,It ever met. I talked with her today, I uas been ascertained. His death oc*but she emphatically continued to DENY THE ACCUSATIONS.cur red seven years after his marriage, md, owing to the character of theits life.She seems to be without a tinge ol I lisease, nothing mysterious attachedremorse or conscience, and cxpresses I o his demise. The couple had four no regret over the death of members | children, one of whom died early inof her family.”While throughout the city there li TWO SONSa widespread feeling of repulsion for ire in the United States army, and athe person who could be guilty of sucb laughter, Mrs. Myrtle Nixon, lives in inhuman crimes as are attributed to in Ohio city, whose name the officers the prisoner, there is also an undercur- jo not know.rent of conviction that the woman hasThe widow then married FrankHER FRIENDSbeen unjustly accused in the light ol I Brown, a paper maker at Middletown, the indefinite character of the evi-1 it is stated that he had three children, dence against her. I »nd all died within a short space oftime. They were Clarence, aged 9( believe her a person incapable of crime I Frank, aged 7, and Mamie, about three of any kind. Tfce officers say they I months old. Mr. Brown’s death oc-will hold her until a full, detailed re I curred five years ago. Although an port Is made by the chemist of his I inquiry was started at the time, noth-uialysis. *The stomach of Mrs. Pugh, whichingcameofit. It is said there wereSUSPICIONS OF POISONING.showed traces of arsenical poisoning, \ The widow cais at the office of tlie coroner. Hesoonbeenuselessin the city long when she was married hume the body, since it has been em-1 to William Stowe, a soldier and pen-balrned. The poison was placed in | doner of Middletown.the woman’s stomach by some one ashort time before her death.Her third husband did not live as long after marriage as his predecessorsCoroner Hatcher and the police I ind, at the time of his death there spent yesterday in furthering their in- *as some talk in the neighborhood, it vestlgatlons in Mrs. Witwer’s case I is stated. The couple had no children. Little was learned, and the charge of Detective Gugel, who was in Middle-ouspiclon was not changed. Mrs. I town Saturday, learned thatWitwer showed no evidences of lndlg-STOWE’S DKATFInation over her arrest, but calmly as- *as due to arsenical poisoning. At the verted her innocence when questioned. I time, the death was thought to be dueCORONER HATCHER to a d(jse of morphine. The detectivesays that Mrs. Witwer’s mother ana discovered that Stowe died after an many other people who knew her as a alleged scandal at a Middletown hotel, neighbor have given him information I in which a preacher of the city and relative to the events in her life. The nis wife were connected, information is very general in it* Coming to Dayton, Mrs. Stowe be-character and unsatisfactory. There I came a housekeeper and nurse in local*eemsto have been something mysterious about each of the fourteen dlt; ath* which have taken place in tha woman’sfamily, or in families by which shevas employed as nurse or housekeenerWhile til** ‘(Continued ou Sixth Page.)TO CURB ,1 COLD IN ON* DAYi' il e Laxatlvt Br-.mo Quinine Tab el*. Al druggist* ref**—1t f H *** *
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Hamilton Evening Democrat
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 08, 1901
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