Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-01-22
BODY Is EXHUMED.
G. L, Porter's Remains Exam.
ined at Colona.
EVIDENCE OF POISONING FOUND
Neighbour Refufe to Believe the Facts as
Now Presented and Are Loath to Lay the
Horrible Deed to Miss Carrie Dion. whom
They Say Is Eviiiy Disposed.

They Say Is Eviiiy Disposed.
The remains OF Charles Leland
Porter. who is alleged to have been
poisoned by his wife and Miss Carrie
Dion. her hired girl, were removed
from the cemetery at Colona yester-
day and subjected to a post morton
examination for the purpose Of de-
termining whether poison had been
administered, as charged. The
body was found 10 be in a good state
OF preservation, a coalition which
might result from arsenical poison,
which is contained in the EN- balm
ing fluid. The stomach, spleen and
other vital organs were taken out,
and were sent to Prof. Haines, of
Rush Medical college, Chicsgo. A
coroner's jury Witnessed the post
norton, which WIS conducted by
Drs. Spencer. Antics and Kinyon.
The parts examined appear to have
been saturated with poison. and
doubts that MIR. Porter shufiied off
This mortal coil by foul means are
largely dispelled.
Yet there is sentiment in the viii
lsge against accepting as truthful
the facts as developed by the author
tiles. People say that Mr.. and Mrs.
Porter were greatly attached to one
another, and that nothing OF such n
serious nature as to prompt the
crime with which Mrs. Porter is ac-
cused could have arisen between
tn m without being noticed. In
fact. they say that if anyone would
commit the act il would be Carrie
Dion, who is said to he of sn evil and
intern perate nature, she having
| threatened to fire the Catholic
church, OF which she was n member.
because she thought there should BE-
a new one. According to the story
the neighbors tell. she offered an odd
man named Kline $50 IL he would do
the job. and she has threatened 10
annlhilate this one and that one on
the slightest proyocaiion. The fam
lily of Mrs. Porter seems to take the
affair very cooily and appear couf.
dent that no harm can beiall their
mother, whose innocence they de-
clare.
| Sheriff Quinn and q Pinkerton de-
;ectiye who assisted in :erret.nc cut
the case, passed through the city to.
day on their return to Cambridge
after attending the post norton.
Sheriff Quinn has no doubt hut wha'
the guilty party i, Jailed a: Cam.
bridge. He says that Mrs. Porter
remains unbroken in her plea Of in
nccence, and insists with the earn
estness OF a woman in desperate
straits that the whole affair is vii,
conspiracy to disgrace her and her
| family.
| Lsucanum IN Her Ss.cheI.
| On the way to Cam bridge Tnesda,
With Mrs. Porter, Sheriff Quinn say!
he found vial of lsudanum in he,
hand bag. Whether she carried I,
for medicinal or Suicidal purposes b,
could not ascertain.
| Mrs. Potter has two children, lie
land, ii, and Auna, 6. who are STAY
ing with their aged grandmother
Mrs. Anna Blanchard, the mother O
the accused woman, at COlona. c
l.. Porter, the deceased, IS years 40,
was school principal at Clarinda
Iowa. There Re met and wooeC
Emma Blanchard. She was %. an,
he widower OF AZ. Tney were mar
ried. mir. Porter was a highly edu
Gated man. He was q native Of New
York. nephew Of the late Noah P5r
ter. president of Yale college; was
Igraduate OF Amherst; served in III,
First Wisconsin cavalry. wa, thre,
times promoted ard commissions,
adjutant general to Gen. Thoma
Ewing while in command at ST
Louis; was hcnorsbly discharged a
Lookout Mountain. Before the wa
in 1858. a. Urbana, Ill, he had beef
ad United to the bar; followed teach
ing after the war, generally al ~
lperintendent or principal in cites o
large towns in love; founded Oil
college, Iowa, in 1873, serving a. IL
first president-snd died landlort
of the Colcna house.
A week before Mr.. Porter's dealt
Carrie Dion, who had been employ-,
BY the family since 1895, went {;
Geneseo, and hired out to the famil
# II. Il. Taylor. To Mrs. Taylo
she told of the poisoning Of Mr.. POI
ter. Mrs. Taylor told Coroner Nc
Arthur. Miss Diem said that whe
she asked Mrs. Porter for money sh
would tell her to wait until her hu.
band died and she got the life insur
ance. Mrs. Porter said she was no
satisfied with her husband, anyways
and the Dion woman says she toll
her to get a divorce. But she sal
she would not get the insuranc
then. Mrs. Porter offered Miss bio
$50 to assist in disposing Of her hu:
band. And the plan was agree
upon.
He Wss Suspicious.
Mr.. Porter several times remarke
! that he believed they were trying {
poison him, so Miss Dion says. bu
they told him his Imagination VS.
troubled. Mrs. Porter says tia
Miss Dion is silly, simple girl VIII
has been drilled in the story. Shr
saws the. crime. il committed. wa
the work OF Miss Dion, without be
knowledge, aud she said that sh
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