Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-25
ADDITIONAL TELEGRAPH.
DECEPTION avn cRIME.
no Death Of Annie noGrath Due 10
Murder or suicide.

ho Death Of Annie ncgrRth Dus 10
Murder or suicide.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.--Thefe
little doubt today that A nnie Nc
jraih, found dead at 1920 GirArJ
ivonue, ON Monday night was either
tilted as n result Of n plan for double
suicide with Samuel Langdon, a
wealthy coal operator, whote mistress
she was, or that she alone committed
suicide. The evidence thus far adj.
duced points almost oonclusivsly to
the theory that Lang Ion tooE her life
and then attempted to commit sulcije,
but forsook this purpose and fled.
The most inoTimluAting fact Is that
the girps lips and almost the entire In.
terlOr OF the mouth were burned anu
di5colored as u by an acid poison,
while LangdonS tongue, from tip 10
palate, IL n series Of ulcers anu mucous
patches which, according TO his own
statement, were not there before Mon
DAY. This condition Ia almgsi exactly
similar TO that existing ~ the gir,'s
mouth, except that Ia the latter II h
more aggravated,
Bertha Stewart, the colorcd girl ems
ploytd by the couple, wa the last YET.
son, except Langdon, who saw the girl
alive. This was about $3.50 on sunday
afternoon. Mrs. LangdOn, 40 snv was
known, came uUw nsiaifs aud told the
servant 10 prepare dinnuL She then
returned to her bedroom, whofo her
supposed husband had been with her
nj day. There was no further sign from
the UPPER part OF thu house until 1880,
when she heard n piercing scream.
bne hurried upstalfs anu knocked NJ
tue door. LangdOn, clad only IN ms
night ul0thef, opened the door ami told
her that her mistress was suffering
from u bilious attack, 10 which sho was
subject. Through mn aperture tue
servant saw her mistress lying on tue
bed with towel on her lace. she was
motiOnlsss anu may have been dead
then. Langdon evidently had been
lying on the ilJot
Ats u'clouA hr came down alone to
dinner ana told the girl not 10 disturb
her mistress, who was not we'll Ito
gave her tho keys VI tue house, aud
Ielt saying be wa going 10 New YORK.
That night tue hOIy was disCOvefuI.
The girls relatives deny she was ever
subject 10 bilious attacks.
On Tuesday morning tho Stewart
girl received postal card from lAu.-
don mHiled alter he lett tho house the
night before, iusttuctiug her tnal ~
her mistress was no letter by Iussiay
TO molly her father, Henry MIGath.
When arrested yesterday LAngdOn
complained OF beiug III AMI shortly
aitsfgATds vomited cOpiOuely, lie
told Police Surgeon Andrews that his
tongue aud throat we're liberated from
excessive smoking, but lac had not DO.
fore been troubles with such election.
The surgeon found the throat IN gyoi
condition, anu says smoking docs not
produce such liberation ~ m this case.
The mouth Looked as n Il mad Teen
burned by an iTrilaui, such ~ ether ~
chlofof1fm. The condition might
nave been produced by mineral acid
IN small quantity.
Bertha Stewart made further state
ment today that Monday morning tho
went up 10 awaken Laugdun but could
not arouse him. sho heard him snor-
iuE. bhe made another attempt later
40 tue G.s- with "a similar result.
Z he fAthST Of this dead girl told
Coroner AsNbddgo today that his
daughter had ".asiv6I him.
Her excuse for absence fOf three or
four days at time was that abe had
teen visiting friends. aud this was so-
oepted without q lcstion.