Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-19

New York, April 1S.-Mrs. Flora Ad-
ans Darling, a writer of war letters
and one of the founders Of the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution, is seeking the
indictment of DR.. Francis Xavier
Spranger and his wife, who was for
merly her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ed
ward Irwin Darling, by the grand jury
of New York county.
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling's son, Ed
ward Irving Darling, died on Febru-
ary 13, 1894, at Mt. Clemens, Mich,
from what she claims to have been
slow poison.
Edward Irving Darling was musi-
cal composer and a poet. The son met
Beatrice Gay Klingle, while in Wash
ington with his mother, in 1885. He
fell in love with the girl and they were
married on September Is of that year.
A short time after their marriage he
met with an accident, falling out of
window and breaking several bones.
DR.. Spranger, then a recent graduate
of a western college, was called in to
attend him. For many weeks the
young man lay in plaster-of-paris
casts and it is alleged now that dur
ing this time
THE DOCTOR FELL IN LOVE
with his patients wife. On July 4,
1892, the younger Mrs. Darling received
word of the death of her father in
Washington. This left her an estate
valued at more than $1,OOO,OOO, consist
ing of real estate in washington and
government bonds. She and her hus-
band went to Washington to attend
the funeral and stopped at the Ebbitt
House in that city. While there the
young man became violently i'll after
drinking a glass of milk. DR.. Harri-
son, a physician of that city, attrib-
uted his Illness to impure milk. Mrs.
Darling, the mother, now claims that
the milk contained poison.
After the funeral of Mr.. Klingle, Mr..
and Mrs. Darling returned to Detroit
and from that time it is said the hus-
band
BECAME AN INVALID.
On June 20, 1898, Darling visited his
mother at Mt. Clemens While there
he was attended by DIR. Richard Loch-
ner, who said that the young man had
been under the influence of violent
drugs which had destroyed the tissue
of the body, and that his death was
only a question of a short time.
The patient died on February 1S,
1894, and previous to his death he
made statement that his wife and
DR.. Spranger had Systematically poi
soned him and that he would die from
the effects of the drugs given him.
The body was cremated without
post mortem examination at the re-
quest of the patient, who maintained
that he did not want his body to fall
into the hands of his wife.
The motive, according to the dead
mans mother, has now been establish
ed through the public marriage Of DIR.
Spranger to Mrs. Darling ,at Baltimore,
in March of this year.
AS soon as the marriage was an
nounced. John Quincy Adams, brother
of the dead mans mother, residing in
this city, took the case before District
Attorney Fellows.
HE SUBMITTED PROOF,
as he claims, that poison was adminp
istered to Darling by his wife willis
they were stopping in this city in the
early part of 1893. District Attorney
Fellows assigned the case to Assistant
District Attorney George G.. Beattelle,
who is making thorough examination
of all the circumstances surrounding
the death of young Darling.
Several different medicines alleged
to have contained poison are now in
the hands of Mr.. Beattelle and are be-
ing analyzed by chemists.