The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14
Now in the Mercer County Jail under indict
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Aledo. H.. Dec. 13.-Aliie Dool and Tona
Dunlap had been friends since early girl
hood. Allie DooI is dead and her one time
friend and schoolmate is behind prison bars,
accused of one of the most mysterious ana
malicious murders ever committed in the
State.
Each day now she faces Judge and Jury,
and three OF he best lawyers il Western
Illinois are fighting hard for her H..
On the evening OF August ! Allie Dooi
died in terrible agony rom strychnine poi
son.
The State is attempting to prove that Allie
Dooi died from s~trychnnc poison. caused ~
eating Chocolate creami given her b. iona
Dunlap.
The case is full of mystery and with each
new feature only seems TO ZEE The moe
complicated. II Allie Dooi died III strycn-
nine poison. how dlu the StrychIINe get N
the candy? How did iona Dunlap cSraIe
the same death that met ner friend. II t"e
canCy was poisoned, iCr she ate freely oHI
of tne same sIch: These are questions
which aie engaging the best legal talent
1t is Canned that Allie Dcol had had 4
disappointing love affair. Is it possible that
she could have wished % take her own NE!
the name of owens. II was a genuine love
affair. He became AFFLICTED 10 drink ana
the engagement was broken
II Tony Dunlap Is guilty OK this charge,
wnat was her motive Does a Ialru !'tItE,
enter in: Was il jealousy that prompted
her to commit this awful deed: II so; VINO
Is the man III the case. Is 1t reasonable To
suppose that the accused would murder
her best friend for the sake OF 4 paltry 81
a weeE-for a position in a store? these are
the questions on the iIps OF every one
These are the points the State Is attempting
Mary Alma pool and Antoinette Dunlap
have lived here tor years They came Of
TWO of Aledo's most prominent families.
They were both weii ana most favoraDiy
the family OF Allie Dooi hold her memory
| sacred, while the friends of the accused are
stanch-they cannot believe her guilty Of
WANT JUSTICE DONE.
Allie Dcols aged father and mother are
broken-hearted. and without malice in their
hearts ask that the slayer Of Their daugn,,
ter be found and prompt justice be Lleled
out.
iona Dunlap's father is dead. Her moth
er. bent down with the burcen Of ner y.a,s
and the trials that have come to her. is
leaving no stone untIrned to re-estab.ish
her daughters fair lame Three brothers
will never believe her guilty. The mother
holds a life interest in one of the finest
farms in Mercer county This will go. il
need be. 10 save the daughter from the
gallows.
The only break in the family's belief of
Tomas innocence here occurs. The wife
of one of Tomas brothers believes her gull
ty. She refuses to syn a deed giving up
her husbands right in the farm for the
The story Of TIE circumstances which
connect iona Dunlap with the case are
most interesting. On Sunday. August 5.
iona. Dunlap bought ) cents worth of
st-ychine at Crais's drug store. Or the
afternoon Of the Wednesday following. in
Company with Margaret Miller. a school
teacher. who was boarding at the Dunlap
home. Tona Dunlap bought ) cents worth
OF chocolate creams at Miners grocery.
Thursday afternoon ;hey again visited
worth. This was about 4 O'clock. Eating
this candy as they went along the street
they went into the Felix dry goods store.
where Mrs. Dool was working. The clerks
We're ali busy and they left the store.
After leaving the store Misses Dunlap and
Miller walked around town a while and
then went 20 the depot and waited for the
40 train on which Miss Miller expected 10
returned to Felix's store and found Miss
Dool and Maynard Marquis. another cl" k.
at leisure. Miss Dunlap asked Allie Dooi
if she cared for some candy. and Miss Door
replied:
Yes indeed. you know I never refuse
Tona Dunlap took a cream in her mouth
and biting into it exclaimed that ii was
bitter and asked II she could spit it ou;.
Miss Dunlap and Miss Miller then left for
home, while Allie Dool was sill eating
some of the candy.
about $50 o'clock B.. F. Felix, proprietor
Of the store. returned from supper. I!o
found Miss Dool sitting IN q chair. Sar
mediately went into a c2nvuis.on. He
called Doctor N. O.. Reynolds. CONFUSION
after convElsion followed. No relief could
be afforded. and finally at about 10 o'clock
the stricken girl died.
During the early part of her suffering
between convuls:ons in response to the doc
tors questions as to what was the matter,
Allie Dooi said: