Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-03-29
'0NE MORE ARREST.
NELSON JONES CHARGED WITH MUIR
DER OF IDA FOSBURG.

Taken at Shorehom on Saturday Night
Declares His Innocense-Few New DeveI-
opements in the Famous Poison Mystery
Preliminary Hearing Awaits Analysis.
For several days after the release of
Aldace Vondette, charged with the mur-
der of Ida Fosburg of near Shoreham,
nothing new was developed in the poison
i ing mystery that has been the talk of the
county the past two weeks and more.
80 quiet did matters become that the
metropolitan papers which had sent
special representatives here to write up
the matter called the latter home.
On Friday the pathologists who have
been at work on the vscera of the dead
woman in an effort to discover the nature
of the poison which is supposed to have
caustd her death, went to Pittsford,
where the remains were buried and dis
inferred the body in order to examine the
heart and lungs and such other organs as
were not sent to them at the time of the
post-mortem examination.
In the mean time Sheriff Chapman was
following up clues. Our report of last
week left him in Crown Point, where he
was hunting for man said to have been
with Aldace Vondette in that village.
He proved the rumored presence of
Nondette to be without foundation, but
he did discover an old sweetheart of Ida
Fosburg. What evidence, if any, he
secured will not be known till the case
comes to trial.
The expected arrest of Nelson Jones,
son of Miner Jones, in whose employ
Miss tosburg was at the time of her
death, took place al a late hour Saturday
1 uight. Young Jones was found in
Shoreham Village with his parents. He
made no protest againt the arrest, simply
declaring his innocence and Offering to
90 with the officer voluntarily. lie was
taken first to his'home, where he changed
his clothes, gathered up few articles he
would need, and then the long drive was
begun through the mud and slush of the
heavy spring roads. The sheriff and his
prisoner reached the county seat at about
80 O'Clock Sunday morning, and Nelson
Jones was lodged in the Jail. The arrest
was made as secretly as possible, and it
was noon of the next day before the
matter became public property.
must have been strong to cause his arrest
is evident from the extreme caution with
which J. officers worked after the
alleg I'-'Tiundtr in the arrest of Aldave
Vondette. The high standing of the
family of the young man and his own
previous good record were in themselves
sufficient TO demand the utmost care
before blasting the happiness of the one
and the good name of the other. This
evidence must. in the nature of the case,
be largely circums tantial. Nothing is
known definitely as to the line OF pros
ecution to he followed by the state.
Nelson Jones's publicly known connec-
ton with the death of Ida Fosburg rests
on the fact that he delivered to her the
letter which is supposed TO have con-
tanned poison, the taking of which caused
her death What other facts have been
secured by the state will probably not be
known until the case reaches hearing.
The newspaper reporters have been in
defatigable in running down rumors, and
they brought to ligh. considerable mat
ter of interest, if not of importance. Of
this was the discovery that Druggist F.
We pPOohVi VI lCCClNCu Ou
an order from Shoreham signed "Ida
Fosburg," asking for ten cents worth of
strychnine for domestic purpose. On
March he mailed 10 grains of the poison
as directed, first wrapping it in small
piece of paper, which he enclosed in a
drug envelope marked poison" This
he placed in one of his printed business
envelopes for mailing. The handwriting
of the order is said to be wholly unlike
that of Ida Fosburg, being unmistakably
masculine in its scrawl. 1t is not thought
that this letter reached Miss Fosburg at
all. If the final report of the chemists
who have analyzed the contents of the
stomach of the dead woman shows that
death was caused from strychnine poison,
the obvious Inference will be that some
one intercepted Druggist Spooner's letter,
distracted the packet of poison, placed
1t an other envelope, and remailed this at
the Shoreham postoflice on the fatal eve
ming of March II. And the further in
, ference will be irresistible thar this act
was performed by the person who forged
, Miss Fosburg's name to the order for the
poison-lf the name is shown to have
bNNh "a ioi SNl1 - mVNl1C hiuSl ut sup
piled for such crime, and this is dis
, covered In the fear of shame and the law
, should the man responsible for her un-
, born child be exposed.
Other letters have come to light which
may prove important, if the identity of
the writer's are established. One was
found in the hands of Rutland physi-
, clan, having been handed to him by a
druggist of that city. It's said to be one
of two thus disposed of by the druggist,
} the physician having destroyed the other
= The substance of the letters is of most
damaging nature to the writer, being a
confession that he was in trouble and
asking the druggist to send him certain
drug. The request was ignored and the
letters handed to the physician, as stated
! Nelson Jones still remains In the county