The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-27
The Poisoned Candy Case.

IN Tale Of Two Coasts: or the
Mystery of a Box of Poi
soned Candy" is the alb
sorbing murder story of the day. The
plot is spicy enough. IL is strictly fin
de steele. il brings into play Illicit love,
dissipation, jealousy, revenge emorse,
all the elements of a strictly high
grade French tragedy. The man in
the case is join =. Dunning. Two or
three years ago, when his business was
that of agent of the associated press in
San Francisco. Dunning one day was
riding his bicycle i'm Golden Gate park
and his wheel broke down. While en-
gagged in fixing IL he entered into con-
versation with two aides who hap
pened to be sitting on n bench near by.
One of the women was Mrs. w. A..
Botkin, and before the two separated
that day she had invited Dunning to
call. He accepted the invitation, and
after that was very often in her COM
pany The two went to the races a
great deal. and during Cummings alb
sence from the city, as he was often
called away by his duties, he CORE
sponded with her. When Mrs. Dun-
ming went East to visit her parents.
Cummings intimacy with Mrs. Botkin
grew very marked.
Dunning lost money at the races. He
also lost his position with the associ-
ated press in San Francisco. He went
East last winter and early in the spring
again secured employment with the as
ISOLATED press as a war correspondent,
his latest work being at Porto Rico.
on the cessation Of hostilities, he re-
turned to New York and at once
started for Dover, Del, where his wife
and little daughter had gone to visit
relatives. '
All this time. II appears. he had cor
responded with Mrs. Botkin, keeping
her informed OF his movements one
day "A of chocolate candy came
through the mails addressed to the lit
tie girl. The child, however, for some
reason, did not eat the candy. Mrs.
Dunning and her sister, Mrs. Deane,
ate it and fell very III.
Now comes a medical chapter. A
physician was called. a man Of repu-
tation i'm the Delaware medical frater-
nifty. lie promptly prescribed for the
two women and they promptly died.
When Mrs. Deane. who was the first
TO die. succumbed, the good doctor said
her death was due to heart failure con-
sequent on cholera morbus. When Mrs.
Dunning died. the doctor. in a spirit of
curiosity, made some inquiries as to
what the women had been eating. The
candy was examined and found To con-
tain arsenic. People who would like
To express their opinion Of the Della
wares doctors learning and skill, but
who find themselves utterly unable To
do so. are referred To Charles Reade's
Hard Cash" in which certain types of
physicians are roasted TO a crisp. As
to the question of eNhumation and au-
topsy, il is feared that the presence of
arsenic in the embalming fluid will
render II impossible to make a proper
analysis of the contents of the bodies.
But II is argued that the fluid is only
injected into the a~rterial system and
would not enter the stomach and in
tcstines, and here is where Corrosion
and particles Of arsenic must bt
sought.
Detectives were set to work, the box
Of candy was traced to San Francisco
and a day or two ago Mrs. Botkin was
arrested. She is now to be taken tt
Dover. protesting her innocence; medi
tating. as the police believe, suicide
and furnishing to the world what th'
san Francisco papers are pleased I,
call "a modern romance