Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-09
ADA EBERSOLE'S DEATH.
The Girls Physician and Lover Both Be
lieve She Was Poisoned and Give Their
Reasons-Peculiar Actions of Her Step
father-Dark Tales From Dalton.

The Girls Physician and Lover Both Be
Iieve She Was Poisoned and Give Their
Reasons-Peculiar Actions of Her Step
father-Dark Tales From Dalton.
MAssILLoN, April -[Special. IA spe-
cial in yesterdays papers from Lancaster
stated that A. @. Martin and j. NJ. Cling
rich, of Lebanon county, were in that city
to have the body of their niece, Ada Eber-
sole. disinterred and examined, claiming
that death was caused by foul means: The
report went on to say that the girl died at
Dalton, O., March %, and that her STEP
father, Henry Weimer, with whom she
lived, is suspected with having caused her
death. Suspicion was first aroused by
Weimer's peculiar actions and the different
stories he told of the girls death, and the
fact that he would allow no one to 60 East
with the body.
Acting upon the information above, The
DISPATCH correspondent went to Dalton,
nine miles west, this afternoon. He first
found Dr. J. NJ. Palmer the leading physi-
clan of the village, who said:
Her Doctor Thinks She Was Poisoned.
know all about the case Have been the
family physician for eight years and at
tended Ada Ebersole, or Weimer, as she is
called here, in her fatal illness. She was Is
years old last November, a beautiful and
lovable girl, always enjoyed excellent
health up to her last illness, and the only
mystery surrounding her untimely death is
who killed her Four other physicians as
sisted me in holding post mortem, and l
am willing to make affidavit in any court at
any time that the girl was poisoned and I
know those who assisted will corrohorate
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called in consultation to see Ada on the Sec
ond day of her sickness, and myself sus-
pected criminal practice but the post NOR
tenn showed that no such cause of death ex-
listed. She was sick three days.
That concluded the doctors story, but no
difficulty was encountered in gathering
other information. Ada's mother is mar
ried to Henry Weimer, who kept small
tin shop, his partner being Aquila Maxwell,
who was the recognized lover of Ada, and
allliving together Young Maxwell wanted
to marry Ada, and had his wedding suit
made, but the parents delayed it. A week
before she was taken sick she had arranged
to go to work for farmer near by in order
that parental restraint would be removed.
Her stepfather sold out his tin shop while
she was sick, and it is alleged by a number
OF persons that he said her sickness would
end fatally.
The Statement OF Her Lover.
Up to her 18th birthday Ada received
5000 from her fathers estate, and it is known
that she would have received much larger
sum upon the death of her grandfather
Another surprising feature is that the body
was embalmed two hours after death at the
direction of the parents. Aquila Maxwell
talked at length. His story, in brief, is as
follows:
Was the first one in the household to hear
Ada moaning. She came into my room and
complained of pains in her stomach. Smell
ing her breath, asked what she had taken.
She replied she had taken drink of whisky
and lily leaves, bottle containing that
m iNture, which is used for stomach troubles,
being kept constantly in the house. Her
parents knew all about her suffering during
the night and in'the morning but would not
send for q doctor; but Mrs. Bixler, n neigh
Dor, came, in and sent for Dr. Palmer. 1
was afraid of being dosed and would not
live there minute after Weimer came back
from the East.
Within day or two bottle of fluid hav-
in peculiar odor, which was taken by the
un dertaker from the corpse while embalm-
ing and kept by him, has been sent to DR..
Grennamyer, of Orrville, by direction of the
Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne county for
analysis, and that official will institute a
thorough investigation to locate the author
ship of the crime.