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DEATH(Continued from, Page 1.)perately ill His stepmother md pic-pared the dinner and sent it to him.Mrs. Witwer is shbrt, spare of figure and not unprepossessing. She has a cold steel gray eye and looks her age, 47. Under the most vigorous crossfire of Chief of Detectives McBride and Coroner Hatcher, she never winced and persisted in her statement that all her rehu'vus and :hose she had attended in sickness who died had passed away through natnal causes.Mrs. Witwer told in the most unconcerned manner of the death of two children by her first husband, her second, his three children, her third and fourth husbands, George F. Keller, Mr, Wentz and his son, who preceded his father by only a few weeks, and lastly her sister, Mrs. Pugh To show how devoid of emotion the woman is she held the light when Dr. Briedeubach removed the stomach13and kidneys of her dead sister. ^Without the least jsign of emotion , she expressed regret over the demise of her last husband^ Mr.’ Witwer, saying that she had hopeA to settle downwith him for life, Atj.no time during the answers to the constant fire of questions did she seem the least bit diu-nneerted. rThe authorities are 'utterly baffled by the coolness and composure of the woman.
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Newark Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 08, 1901
Page 6
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