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SUCCUMBS TO EFFECT OF POISONED CANDY»/liss Rena Nelson Dies After Nearly a Week or Intense Suffering.CAUSE OF HER DEATHPostmortem Examinations Now Being Held—Public Sentiment Runs High in Pierre—Lawyers Trying to Bring Murderer to Justice.Pierre S 1».. March 10. After a week of intense suffering Miss Itena Nelson, the victim of poisoned candy sent from Hoone. Ia., died at her home, six miles north of this city, from the effects ut the drug.Front the first the attending physician held out no hope, and while the young woman herself believed that sho would recover, the physicians who had been trailed In would given no hope. That she held on to life so long is attributed to her health and strength, she being a large and strong woman.The remains were brought to this city and taken charge of by the coroner. who summoned as a jury A. B. Nelson, George L. Fay and W. if. Hailey.The only witnesses examined this afternoon were Stale’s Attorney Goodlier, Dr. ('lark, the attending physician; J. II. Zechman, stepfather of the dead girl, and F. S. Williams, assistant postmaster of this city.The testimony of the first three was as to the knowledge of relations of Miss Nelson with Dye, the statements which had been made to the state’s attorney by the girl previous to her death, and the general conditions through her sickness.The testimony of Williams v as that a few weeks ago the postotiice in this city received a letter from Hoone. Ia., signed by Mrs. Sherman Dye. asking the office to assist her in finding out if her husband was carrying on a correspondence with Miss itena Nelson, of tills city, saying that she had a friend in the Boone postoffice who would assist her at that end of the lino.Afte»* the taking of testimony of those witnesses Drs. (Mark and Ruble began a postmortem examination, and the jury was excused, when tin* report on the postmortem will be presented to the Jury and probably other witnesses examined.The report on the postmortem will show that the physicians found a large ulcerated spot in the stomach, whh h was surrounded by a gangrenous area, and that the kidneys wen* much enlarged and very hard. None of the other Internal organ** : she wed effects of the poison further thatn that they were flabby.The box In which the candy was received was an ordinary half pound bonbon box, which bore no specially distinguishing marks and bon* a wrapper addressed. Miss Rena Nelson. Personal. 'rids was in a handwriting which Miss Nelson testified in her ante-mortem statement was the same as that of a threatening loiter which she had received some time ago, and which she was led to believe came from Mrs. Sherman Dye.Public sentiment in this city is back of State's Attorney Goodlier, who is carrying the matter to a finish in the courts of Iowa to secure the custody of Mrs. Dye and pushh c the case her* n cane she is secured.LAW IS DEF. CTIVE.Gov. Cummins Says C.\ :not Grant Req uisition Papers fc • Mrs. Dye.1» Mol nor, March !' Mrs. Sherman Dye of Hoom*. ; c used of 'ending poisoned candy to Miss Itena Xe!on at Pierre, S. D., of whom she was jealous and from which the Pierre woman died, cannot be extradited for the crime. Neither run she he tried for murder In Iowa.This was the text of the decision 1 landed down l»y Governor Cummins yesterday after a consultation with Attorney General Mullan and upon the advice of the attorney general.Governor Cummins says that the Iowa law will have to be amended In this respect. and will send a sin*clul message to tho legislature, recommending such change. In his decision, which covers one of the first cases of the kind ever raised in Iowa, the governor says:The ruling I am compelled to make upon this application exhibits a grave defect in the law.Under the federal statute as construed by a very recent decision of the Culled States and by an older case in our own supreme court, 1 have no authority whatever to extradite Mrs. Dye.The holdings in these opinions ate clear and explicit to the effect that to warrant extradition the person accused must have been personally in the state whore the lt;rime was committed and tied tin rcfroin after the commission of the crlnn*.Mrs. Dye was not In South Dakota, and therefore could not have tied from that state.1 regret this conclusion, because If Mrs. Dye is guilty of murder she must be tried for that offense in South Dakota or not at all, unless the statute be changed.I have submitted the matter to the attorney general, ami this ruling is made under his advice.
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The Black Hills Union and Western Stock Review
Rapid City, South Dakota, US
Fri, Mar 18, 1904
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