The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-13

An Anto-Lortom Statoment Of the
Doad Man Presented.
OF POISONING RENEWED,

If Statement written by Dying Man
Is TO be Credited, lie believed He Was
Being "Dosed" by His wife and Her
Present Husband.
NEW YORK, May 13--The dying declara-
ton of Edward Irving Darling, the
musical composer, was filed with other
documents in the district attorneys Office
in the case in which Mrs Flora Adams
Darling, mother of Edward Irving Darl
ing accuses DR.. Spranger of having pois-
oned her SON Soon after the death of
Darling, DR.. Spranger married his widow.
They are now in California.
The affidavit made by Edward Irving
Darling was written partly by himself in
the presence of witnesses few hours be-
fore his death In the statement he tells
how in December, 1890 he met with an ac-
cident when attempting to save property
for firm he was with in Detroit. He re
recovered rapidly and returned to business
on March /, 1891. DR.. Oleetz was the sur
geon and Dr. Spranger the physician who
attended him. He declared that the inti-
macy between DR.. Spranger and Mrs.
Darling, his wife, began during his ill
ness. Concerning this intimacy the letter
alleged;
'Prior to her acquaintance with DR..
| Spranger we had lived happily. From
that date she was a different woman.
| Where she had been amiable, agreeable
and cheerful, she was now petulant, vim
dictive and arbitrary. l seemed to be the
| object of her antipathy. She would accuse
me of the most absurd actions, and espec-
cially delighted to pour her tale of imag
| mary into no Of vbn
would listen
| The statement then recounts his grad
ual decline in health when with his wife
and DR.. Spranger, substantially as given
in the statement of his mother, published
recently.
Darling said that he fought against sick
ness and tried to keep up but it was i'm
possible. His wife, he said, spent much of
her time gossiping at DR.. Sprangers of
flee or with his friends. Darling stated
that he became worse and DR.. Spranger
came to him with drug which he (Dr.
! Spranger) said he had received from Paris.
A hypodermic injection of this drug drove
him crazy. He said that he talked for
nineteen hours without ceasing.
The statement continues with the asser-
tion that Darling found his wife had a
private letter box. He also discovered that
his wife and DR.. Spranger were circulat-
ing a report that he was drinking himself
to death 1t dawned on him that he was
not being properly treated and refused to
take any more medicine He began to re-
cover after that In November he left for
New York
Concluding the statement declared:
"In November l was improved, but if
any man ever suffered the torments of the
damned, was crushed, hurt, humiliRted
and cruGifed, l was at that time by Mrs.
Darling. She decided to close the house.
My mother went to Mount Clemens.
left for New York. She with the children
were to go to Washington. She did not
go. AS soon as l left, Dec. s, she filed a
bill for absolute divorce for drunkenness,
non-support, cruelty and desertion, which
she expected to obtain with money through
default-a suppressed case.
"On Jan 26 she joined me in New York
came to my rooms of her own volition
and lived with me as a devoted wife unit
March /, had improved in health gained
twenty-five pounds, and was at work or
Viking The day she left l was taler
seriously i'll, and have failed slowly bu
surely. l am dying without hope o.
hurry"
John Quincy Adams, the brother of Mrs
Floria Adams Darling, of this city, sai(
that the declaration of Darling had beeI
placed in the hands of Assistant Distric
Attorney Battle. He also said that unde
the direction of the district attorneys offic
analyses were being made of the medicine
taken from phials used in administering
drugs to Darling. The result of these an
alysis will be submitted to the district at
torney.