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„NOTE HINTS OF PLOT TO GET MONEYHemorrhage Did Not Cause Death, ItpI Is Revealed. ,I1-na*(Special Dispatch.) CARTHAGE, TIL, March b\—Ccerebral hemorrhage did not cause the death of Mrs. Yir-igil A. Massie as stated in the death certificate. This was revealed after an autopsy here last night, when officials declared there was no evidence *of cerebral hemorrhage. Vital organs were removed by order :£ Colorado authorities and will be analyzed.District Attorney Joel E. Stone and Sheriff Walter Johnson of Jefferson county, Colorado, arrived Thursday evening:. After a consultation with Mrs. Mary Rosenbaum, mother of Mrs. Massie, and her brother, the body was removed from the German cemetery near the Mas* sic family home and taken to th* Herne undertaking establi.shmep* here where the autopsy was performed by Dr. Gray of Keokuk and Dr. L*. C. Knight of Carthage. Official present besides the Colorado men were: State's Attorney Homer Williams, Coroner George D. Moore and Sheriff Edgar Tanner of Hancock county.Attorney Stone dnd Sheriff Johnson left for Keokuk to catch a train for Colorado immediately followoing the autopsy. Analysis of the organs will be made In a Denver laboratory.Appeal for Help?DENVER, Colo., March 6.—{AP »—Further investigation Into the death of Mrs* Virgil Massie at Edge-ie j water, a suburb of, Denver, on Feb* ^ t ruary 1, under '‘mysterious eircum* .t j stances,** yesterday resulted in .the j finding of a note In the Massie home * j believed to have been hastily'scrawl-i ed by the woman during her last I hours in an appeal for help.The note started;“For God’s sake act quick. Plot to get my money. Don’t believe aword M **Message In Stocking.The message was written on a piece of paper and was found concealed In heel of a stocking. The paper was crumpled and the writing was barely legible. Officers expressed their opinion the woman had maie a deliberate effort to hide the warning note when she realized she was to die. They say the writing has been identified as Mrs. Massie’s.Although Massie. husband of the slain woman, is still held in the Jefferson county jail he will be releasedunless charges are filed against him on or before next Monday, Judge Samuel W. Johnson said yesterday in postponing habeas corpus hearing at the request of attorneys for Massie.Woman Re*Arrested.Miss Rene Devilbess, a friend of Massie. was re-arrested yesterday, less than 24 hours after being released when she had told officers what eho knew of Mrs. Massie’s death. The significance of her rearrest was not commented on by the prosecutors.The new arrest of Miss Deviibess followed a long distance telephone conversation between District Attorney Joel E. Stone, now' in Carthage, j 111., and officers hero and came at | the same time that a hearing of i babe;us corpus proceedings wqs f started for the release of the dead woman's husband, lie also is held n in connection with the investigation into Mrs, Mascie's death.The habeas corpus hearing was continued until Monday. The body of Mrs. Massie will be exhumed in Carthage to investigate reports that her neck was dislocated at the Umo of her burial, and that other evidences might be found on her body to bear out the theory that sho came to her death by foul play.Mrs. Massie was reported to have j had $12,000 in a Denver bank, and: j I to have carried $5,000 life insurance.S *cxc£;t1-srohetI{IO 1 1c !i-fv'!1
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Quincy Morning Whig Journal
Quincy, Illinois, US
Sat, Mar 06, 1926
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