The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-03-30
.MAYME FLEMING
NOW MRS. DARNELL
is Charged With Poisoning Her
Husband in Order to Get
His Life Insurance
of $4,000.
The Young Woman
LIVED Here Two Years Ago
With Her Sister Whose Letters
ImpIicate Her also in the
Fiendish Deed. : The
Victim is Dead.

The summer of 1897 and the winter
OF 1898 Misses Bertha and Mayme
Fleming, Of Fairmont, lived and work
ed here as stenographers. Less than
six months ago Miss Mayme married
John Darnell, aged 22years, Of Goshen,
Indiana, a member of a highly respect
ed family. Her husband died Sunday
under rather suspicious circumstances
and, according toa dispatch sent out
from Goshen, the yonng wlfe's name is
coupled with his death mi way to inn
peril her future liberty. The dispatch
says, ''her husband, Darnell, died Sun
day morning after lingering illness of
what attending physicians pre- nounced
consumption, superinduced by Il per-
nicous disease. The parents of the de-
ceased assert that neverh has there been
a case of Consumption in their family.
They lay the blame for all his disease
at his young wife's door, and openly
charge that his death wasdue to slow
poisoning, administered In the medi-
cines prescribed or left blythe physician
and attaching suspicion to the wife,
formerly Miss Mayme Fleming. of
Fairmont, w. Va, to whom he was
married less than six months ago.
''Deceased has been failing gradually
for several months, and the parents
had taken the couple into their
home that they might assist
in caring for him. Their suspicious,
and also the sons, were aroused by n
peculiarly in the taste Of the familiar
medicine used, and also the unexpect-
ed resultsfollowing the administration
OF the PHYSICIANS prescriptions. The
young Mrs. Darnell was charged with
being responsible FOR her husbands
condition, and the embittered husband
and incensed parents finally, a few
weeks ago, ordered her to leave their
home.
''She has since been staying at the
homes of friends here, anda Warsaw,
Ind. About the time she left her hus-
band $4,000 life insurance policy
with the Modern Samaritaus, a local
fraternal Insurance organization, was
changed, making his mother the bene-
ticiary instead of his wife.
"The most suspicious Circumstance
reHectingon the young woman was
finding several letters In her room
from a sister at Wheeling, w. Va,
saying in substance:
"sDo your work and come here with
your $4,000, and we will go into bus
mess.
"The family seems loath to institute
legal proceeding to substantiate the
grave charge openly made to friends
against the young wife, because she
by some means retained possession
of incrimtnating letters, but an Of
fetal Investigation Of the matter will
no doubt be made. The undertaken
was not permitted to embalm the
body"
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