Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-19
MAS DARLING POISONED
lis Mother Accuses His Wife
 and Dr. Spranger of Murder.
WIDOW MARRIEs THE PHYSICIAN.

The Accused Couple Are Now on n Honey
 moon Trip and Bound For Japan-Dar-
 ling Had His Life Insured For sa,OOO.
 Mrs. Darling Files Amdavits.
 NEW YORK, April Exchanges have bOen filed in the office of the district at torney by Mrs. Flora Adams Darling mother of Edward Irving Darling. who was alleged to have been murdered by poisoning in this city bctween Jan. 2S and March l, 1893.
 It is charged that tho poison was ad- ministcred in small doses by Mrs. Oar ling, the wife of the deceased, who is now i'll California, and supposed to be on her way to Japan with her husband. Darling died in Mount Clemens, Mich, Feb. l, lS9t.
 From the information in possession of Mrs. F. A. Darling a reporter learned that Edward I. Darling, who was a mu- siCal composer of this city. married Miss Gay Beatrice klingle of Washing ton, who was an hciress worth about $l, 900, 0oO which had been left her by her grandfa- thor the late Josiah Pierce of Washington. They wero married on Sept. l5 1885. Mir. Darling saved the property of his wife from being embezzlcd by instituting a bill of search relative to her real estate and by this means secured to her what prop erty had not been sold and also a bond of Sl00, GOO from tho trustees of her estate much of which had been wasted or di- Verted.
 Broke Twenty-seven Bones.
 Several months after tho marriage Mr and Mrs. Darling carno to this city and lived at 9l Park avenue and remained thero for two years. They then went to JNnfrCjr xNbn DnpliD,y oi a with the firm uf Grincll of that city. While thcro ho met with an accident, in which ho broke ? bones. Dr. Francis \. SprangeT was called to attend him, and Mr Darling recovered sufficiently to ena- ble him to got life insurance policy for $2. O0O
 On July 1. 1899. Mir. klingle, father of Mrs. Darling died, and Mrs Darling then came into possession of hor estate, which her father held in part as one of the trustees. Mrs Darling and her hus- band went at once to Washington. and while at the Ebbitt HuGs>' in that city he was taken i'll after having drank somo milk.
 The symptoms were those of cholera poisoning. Dr. Harrison attended him, and after he had partially recovered he re turned to his homo in Detroit. whore he was for n long timo a soVcrC sufferer.
 Tho systematic poisoning of Mir. Oar ling by his wife is alleged to have begun Immediately upon their return to that city. The mother. Mrs. F. Darling. open ly charged the doctor and Mrs. k. R. Oar ling with having poisoned her son, and threatened should ho die that she would have an autopsy held. Sho then left tho house. saying she would not remain to sec her son murdered
 Mir. Darling was very low at this time, and his death was expected, but ho recov cred sufficiently tn como 10 this city in November. l>93 The presumption was that Mrs. Darling threat had uado tho alleged poisoners cease their work for a time
 In January lSva. Mrs E | Darling joined her husband in this city, and they lived together at 39 West sixteenth street.
 Unknown to him, sho had instituted in Detroit a suit fnr divorce, in which she madG various ChIrg,s except adultery, but the suit Was nullitUL by her again living with her husband. Sho Ivturnud to Do truit in March. l$Hi. alone While in this i city, it iS alleged she administered the poison which Causod his dc tn uu Feb l, lSY4 The testimony to prove this-of four wituCSSoS-iS in tho hands Of tho dis trict attorney. After she loft tho city hc remained here until Juno 20 in dying condition and then went to Detroit, where, 1t k alleged. ho found his wife and Dr. Sprangcr wcrc maintaining illicit rcla tiunS. Ho thon lett that city and went to Mount Clemens, a health resort, where his death occurred.
 Tho death certificate declares that tho cause was tho destruction of tho vital organs
 Wife and Doctor Accused. While her son was living Mrs. Darling | ilod statement with the Detroit author l itics in August lSg2 charging Dr. Spran- 1 ger with having poisoned her son and al | leging that tho wife was insane and had 1 Ecen influenced by tho doctor to aid him 1 in the murder.
 On March lost. Mrs. Darling. tho | widow, openly married Dr. Spranger, to l whom she had been married secretly one month after tho death of her husband l The wedding was celebrated in Baltimore 1 in the cathedral.
 John Quincy Adams, lawyer of this city and brother of the elder Mrs. Oar l ling presented tho caSo to the district at torney, and Assistant District Attorney Battle is now investigating tho matter to 1 determine tho question of Jurisdiction.
 Tho puiSons alleged to have been ad- minisiorod to Darling in tho guise of
 medicine wero morphine antimuny, nj ! troglyccrin pcllets, dynamite pellets CO mother, was asked to sign a paper certify ing that she believed the drugs had been administered without criminal intent, | hut she refused to do so.
 The deathbcd statement of Darling, GOV ering the entire story of tho alleged con
 SpiIacy, has been filed with tho district i attorney