Daily camera., 1901-08-24
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DID SHE SUICIDE?
Or Was the Poison Administered to Her by
Her Husband?

Or Was the Poison Administered to Her BY
Her Husband?
Did Albert Streigel poison his young
wife and then attempt suicides There
is reason for belief in this theory. The
wife had been dead for several hours
when discovered and there is every
reason to believe that Streigel did not
take poison until after she was dead.
The grief.stricken father evidently be.
lieves this from his knowledge of his
daughter and from facts he has cleaned
The fathers name is B. F. Spar and he
lives at 3o3I Gray street. Denver. He is
slender, we'll dressed. intellectual
gentleman. though be says 81 am only a
mechanic and contractor" John A.
Teagardeu has known Mr. Spar for IS
years. He came to Boulder last night
and tearfully looked on the dead face Of
his child. Then he spoke to the reporter
of the Camera. He had read Of charges
Of bigamy but knew nothing about them.
Mr. and Mrs Spar had watched their
daughter grow to young womanhood
with tender solicitude. Because she was
lame they had permitted her to attend
convent school at Denver to keep with
neighbor children. There, he says. she
learned finely and was not taught to
favor the Catholic faith. Mr. and Mrs
Spar are pro,estants and that is one
reason why they did not look with favor
upon the sui, OF Albert Streigel. who was
a Catholic. In May last they learned
lha, they had been married last February.
They were shocked, but welcomed the
couple TO their home. Abou. that time
Streigel was called to manage his
brother in.!aw's drug store in Kansas
City. The couple went there and were
seemingly doing well. Streigels father
lives there as well as his brother in law
and other relatives. The latter had
virtually raised him since his mothers
death, which occurred when he was a
small boy. "As for money" said Mr.
Spar, "he had bu. to write for it and
could have had all he needed"
A few days ago the papers noted an
action for bigamy brought in Missouri.
The former alleged wife brought pro.
ceedings and Streigel gave bail. MIR and
Mrs Spar only heard of their daughter
coming to Colorado yesterday. Size had
not gone to their home in Denver. but
wen! from Kansas City to Longmont 10
visit Mrs Pilliard. Early this week Mr.
Sreigel came TO Longmont and they met.
They took long walks in that town and
were seemingly reconciled. There had
been parting, so it seems. She had fed |
from him because Of the exposure and |
her fear that she was not Streigel's true
wife. They started for Denver-pur.
chased tickets to that place from Long
mont, and then stopped OF at Boulder
Tuesday morning. With small money
in his pocket. he ordered the best room
in the best apartment house and paid for
it. With S cents between them, he
spent IS cents for laudanum, rushing in |
to Fonda's drug store Thursday morn
ing at 9 o'clock and saying he wanted it
for a poultice. There were papers tor
powders about the room after the tragedy
and druggists box without lid or name
or directions. At 10 o'clock he told the
chambermaid his wife was SICK and not
to disturb them. At "a O'Clock in the aft,
ernoon groaning was heard. but not from
her, for the door was forced open be.
tween and o'clock and she then had
been dead for several hours. Her body
was black and rigid cold, Black vomit
as OF opium poison Qaudanum) was on
her lips. He lay groaning, but strsng,
and fought just little against being
taken to :he hospital. One or both OF
them had vomited copiously. my
daughter never could vomi'." said the
father. But his daughter had never
drank laudanum, probably. "She was
coward in her fear of DEATH" said the
father. "She was always unduly afraid
Of poison of any kind"
A badly stained towel, a neck black
and blne, are unpleasant signs that the
young woman may not have died by her
own hands. Strangulation is limited at.
Corner Trezise will hold an inquest be-
ginning at o'clock Monday morning.
Streigei has been recovering finely at
the hospital. He made two efforts of a
mild nature to escape the vigilance Of
deputy sheriff Boo May. He will be
taken to the county Jail this evening and
will be held pending the inquest.
IF have accused my son.in-law in