St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-19
The Happy Couple Are Now
on Their Wedding Tour
in California.
NEMESIS ON THEIR TRACK.
Ex-Mother-in-LaW eeksTheir
Indictment for Mur-
der.


Daughters of tthe Revolution, is
seeking the Indictment of DR.. Fran
els Xavier Spranger and his wife,
who was formerly her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Edward Irving Darling, by
the grand jury Of New York county.
The case is in the hauds Of Assist
ant District Attorney Battle, and is
new in such shape that in all prob
ability it will be presented to the
grand jury during the coming week.
Mrs. Darling's son, Edward Irving
Darling, died Feb. 13, 1894, at Mount
Clemens, Mich, from what she
claims to have been slow poison
The son met Beatrice May Klingle
while in Washington with his moth
er in 1885, and they were married
Sept. Is of that year. At first they
came to this city, residing on Park
avenue, but later they removed to
Detroit, where Darling became man
ager of the music house of Grinnell
Bros. A Short time after his en-
g,agement there he met with an ac-
breaking several bones of his body.
DR.. Spranger, then a recent gradu-
ate of a Western college, was called
in to attend him. For many weeks
the young man lay in plaster Of
paris casts, and Ut is alleged now
that during this time the
DOCTOR FELL IN LOVE
with his patients, wife. =. On. July 4,
1892, THE younger Mrs. Darling re-
ceived news of the. death of her
father in Washington. This left
her an estate valued at more than
$1000,00 consisting of real estate
in Washington and government
bonds. Mr. and Mrs. Darling went
to. Washington to attend the funeral
and stopped ait the Ebbitt house in
that city. While there the young
man became violently i'll after drink
ing a glass of milk. DR.. Harrison,
his illness to impure milk Mrs.
Darling the mother now claims that
the milk contained poison. After
the funeral of Mr.. Klingqe, Mr.. and
Mrs. Darling returned to Detroit,
and from that time on it is said
that the husband became an in
valid. According ITO the story told
by the mother, DR.. SpIanger was in
constant attendance upon her SON.
"a When DR.. Spranger was que5-
tioned as to the cause of the illness
he said he was suffering from
Bright's disease. On Nov. %, 1892
while in a bad condition physically,
Darling came ITO this city and Wis
Ited his aunt, Mrs, Duval Ney Ev-
erett. While stopping with her his
health continued to improve, and he
gained twenty-five pounds. Mrs.
Darling Joined her husband in New
York on Jan. 4, 1893, and, it is said,
brought with her medicines pre-
scribed by DR.. Spranger. After a
Short time the son began to grow
i'll notwithstanding Ito the story
told by his motller-and when his
wife returned home on March 1 he
was again in a precarious condi-
tion. Darling returned to Michigan
on. June 20 of that year to live
with his mother ait Mount Clemens.
There he was attended by Dr. Rich
ard Locnner, lwho said that the
young man had been under the in
fuence of
VIOLENT DRUGS '7f7
yr1oioh had dactroua1 tho ticcua of
the body and that his death was only
a question of time. The patient
died on February IS, 1894, but previ-
GUS to his death he made a state
ment that his wife and DR.. Spranger
had Systematically poisoned him,
and that he would die from the eff
fects of the drugs given him. The
body was creTnhted without a post
mortem examination at the request
of the patient, who maintained that
he did not want his body to fall into
the hands of his wife.
Mrs. Darling, the mother, had
realized, as she now claims, that her
son had been murdered, and took
the matter before District ATTORNEY
dZlSI, VI OGlrOlC, WHO SAID that
the suspicious, while perhaps well
founded, were not strong enough to
warrant the arrest of the doctor and
her daughter-in-law At that time,
Mrs. Darling the elder had ad-
vanced the idea that her son had
been poisoned because his wife had
fallen IN love with the doctor who
had attended him. The district at
torney is said to have announced at
that time that should the wife ever
marry the doctor, the motive would
become plain.
The motive, according to the dead
mans mother, has now been estab-
! lished through the public marriage
OF DR.. Spranger to Mrs. Darling ait
the Corpus Christi Cathedral at
Baltimore on March of this year
DR.. Spranger and his wife are now in
Southern California enjoying their
honeymoon.