Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-30
THE scHoF1ELD MURDER.


was received Saturday last.
THE SCHOFIELD MURDER.
officers Think it Case of suicide
But the Evidence is Wanting.
Des Moines, Oct. 3O.-with entire
unanimity the physicians, not only
those who conducted the autopsy, but
others who base judgment on the gem
eral rules which apply in such cases,
agree with the coroner that Mabel
Schofield was murdered. They give the
same description of death by drowning
and it's effects Many of them express
the belief that the girl was chloro-
formed; others do not accept this view,
but maintain that some subtle and
powerful poison, such as potassium
cyanide or prussic acid was used This
would be at once absorbed into the sys-
tenn and could not be detected on any
ordinary examinations the most care
full chemical analysis would be neces-
sary to determine its presence Coroner
| Ankeny declares frankly that an anaIy-
| sis ought to be made in this case, and
his manner of making the statement
| led to the belief that he intends to have
| it done. The question of expense, which
would be large, has been the most seri-
Gus one. But there seems to be a gem
| eral public demand that, is ANALYSIS is
necessary to determine the manner of
| death it should be done The coroner
/ has retained the stomach, liver and
other organs which would be necessary
for analysis and they are so preserved
that an analysis al any future time
will find exactly the same substances
las if it had been made Immediately.
! While Coroner Ankeny and people
lgenerally who have carefully studied
the question of motives, the girls char
acter and all the circumstances of the
affair, are becoming convinced more
than ever, in the light of recent devel-
opments. that murder was done, Tho
police officers cling to the theory of sui
|lcide. Unable to find motive for MUIR
4 der and unable to discover a clue to
the perpetrators, they fall back on the
theory of suicide. You never can tell
4 what reasons a woman may have for
Suicide declared one officer myster-
4 iously, after laughing at the account
\ which Mrs. Dean had given of the mys-
q FERROUS buggy with the two men anG
4 the limp girl. The police have taken
up the theory of suicide. Chief Johnson
4 declared to reporter that he should
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