The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-11-18
HER INFIDELIn,
A Villain Despoils the Home Of BIS
Intimate Friend.
And to Shield Himself Kills the Wit
nesses to HIS Treachery.
Which Includes His Paramour, Her
Husband, Children and Parents.
An Attempt to Poison P. D. Armour
by StryChnipe
Mixed in Buckwheat and Sent to the
Family Cook.

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. ia local paper
prints tkis Asseing tbs following account
OF a stsempt by unknownsparties TO poi.
son the family Of P. D. Armour. 1t ap
pears that Monday morning q ssmn boy
brought 70 the kitchen OF Armour's resi-
dence on Prairie avenue Q paper sack
marked on one side "best quality buck
wheat" and on the other Example pack
age" The ccok supposed from the marks
on the package that 1t had come from the
grocery where the family was supplied
regularly so she put 1t on Q shelf. The
butler happened 70 come ia and knowing
that Armour had issued orders not TO re-.
ceiVe any sample packages ran after the boy
and caught him on the street. The boy
said the package had been given him by
two men at the corner OF Wabash avenue
and TWeRtY-f1fs street, who had paid him
twenty nVe cents for delivering it. As the
boy knew nothing else, the butler let him
90 and gave orders that the package
should not be touched until Armour had
been consulted. Later in the day gen.
tleman called at ArmOur's office and said
he had overheard strange conversation
between two men on the corner OF Wabash
avenue and TWenty-f1rst street that morn
ing, as he was waiting for car. One of
the men, who had q handkerchief tied
around his neck, handed o boy q package
and told him to deliver it to no ole but
the cook
"Where are you sending that to-" asked
the mans companion. ITO Armour's,"
was the reply.
"What's IN itP' "Poison," replied the
man with sore neck.
why, you'll kill the whole family p'ex-
claimed the other man. "That's what /
want TO do,'' replied the sooundrel.
There are too many Armours in this
country. II that stuff takes hold 1t will
give as what We want. Armour is at the
out of the way.
Armour placed the matter in the hands
of the Pinkertonagency and went bone to
examine the package. II was found to
contain buckWheat, but something had
been mixed with it. The package was
| taken to q chemist, who analysed 1t and
So omitted his report, which was, in etfect,
that the buCkWheAt contained large
quantity Of trYchnine-enOugh, in fact,
| to kill q dozen families. The stun is still
In the hands of the chemist. The boy who
delivered the package at Armour's house
has given the detectives who have been
employed by Messrs. Armour, Tibbetts
and Garland, minute description of the
men.
The statement that an attempt was
10 Ade few days ago 10 poison Phil. Ar
m9ur, by two men who are alleged eym
pathizers with the stock yards strikers,
WIS confirmed by that gentleman this
N orninH. Armour was busily engaged st
his desk when . reporter called upon him.
N O traces of mental anxiety could be de-
tested upon his features as he scanned the
N any documents and letters that lay be-
TO re him, but his face clouded instantly
when asked whether the statements con-
corning the alleged attempted crime were
| tT ne. 81 don't care TO talk about II, said
A rmour; Eat least not at present. / don't
know for the life OF me how the thing got
oIIt, but you may say, however, that the
| at DIy Is quite true" he concluded, as he
once more resumed the perusal of his
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