Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-20

ELDoRA CITIZEN IN BAD PLIGHT
Analysis of Mrs. Blydenbure's Stomach
Said to Have Revealed the Fact That
She Died of Arsenic Poiscnins-De-
sire to Get Her Property Alleged as
Motive for the Crime.
Special to Times-Republican.

guilty OIL Il uouDie HiuiuSt. mas ItiSS
ton is being handed about from mouth
to mouth in two states and with grow
ling interest. A paper received here or
Saturday, published at Bryan, Ohio, OF
date of July 16, contains an article
headed. Mrs. Jennie B!ydenburg, Nee
Rosenborough, Poisoned from the
Hands of Her Husband in Their Home
at Eldora, Iowa.-Victim we'll known
here. Circumstances of her death and
burial such as to arouse suspicion of
foul play in the minds of her relatives.
Husband tried to stop Investigations.
Failing in this, 1t is reported he at
tempted TO take his own life"
The article goes on to stalte that E.
S. Elydenburg was known there as a
mason and sidewalk builder, His pre-
tensions were those of a strongly rellg-
ions. honest and fair man. altho his
sincerity was doubted by some of our
citizens.
"The victim of his numerous puh
poses was long time resident of Bry<
an. and was jealous worker In the NJ.
deep sympathy and sorrow are heard
for her untimely and unjusitiable de-
struction."
The article then quotes dispatch
published in the Toledo Blade on Mon
day evening, sent from Wauseou, near
the home of her people. and the place
OF her burial. to the effect that the
circumstances of her death and burial
We're such as to arouse suspicion of foul
play in the minds of her relatives, and
shortly after the burial TREY had the
body exhumed and the stomach and
other organs sent to Professor Vaughn,
of Ann Arbor, for analysis. His report
has Just been returned and shows that
he found quantities of arsenic-suffi-
cient poison to produce death. The ar
rest of her husband. now in Iowa. on
suspicion would follow at once and that
after the body was exhumcd he learned
of the fact and attempted to take his
own life by poison, but tine fact was
discovered and physicians we're at once
called IN, who succeeded i'll saving his
life by the heroic use 8of the stomach
pump and antidotes. Since. then he has
been kept under surveillance. Blyden-
burg expected to inherit his wife's for
ture amountaing to S20,00n Mrs. Bly,
aenburg was Well known in Fulton
county, and in other parts Df Ohio, hav-
Ing been a successful school teacher in
various places for many years. She was
the daughter of Mr.. and i. w. Rosen-
of Elnira. She was educated
a. Delaware and taught school for
twenty terms at Holmes. Chic. She also
lived in Bryan for ten wears and was a
frequent visitor at the home of her
sister. Mrs A. Harold, at Wauseou
and they made their home
at Eidora. in central Iowa. where she
had sister. Mrs. Keller. Blydenburg,
who was mason by trade, an elderly,
apparently steady, religious, moral man,
affable in manner and altogether the
man to win the regard and confidence
OF woman who had worked for years
and had amassed comfortable compe-
tence. The day after the wedding she
decided him q farm OF lao acres and
gave large sum OF money to him for
investment. After settling in Eldora
his trade had no attractions for him
and he did not pretend TO work In
time this became q source of irritation
between them. Blydenburg had been
married twice before and has a family
of four grown-up childre,l. His second
wife died rather suddenly and in the
light, of. recent events her death now
seems extremely suspicious. 1t is al
together likely that the body. which
was buried in Brooklyn, II. Y, will also
be exhumed and chemical analysis
made of the organs. E;lydenburg al
ways protested religious sentiments
and the Sunday before his third wife
died he made it the motive of plea
that was little out of the ordinary. He
urged his wife to go to church and for
once reverse the usual order and leave
him to get the dinner. After some urg
ing she agreed and left him in the
house alone. On her return she found
he had prepared an exceptionally fine
dinner and she ate heartily of 1t. About
an hour after the meal she was taken
violently i'll. She had severe
attack of vomiting and this no doubt
prevented a more sudden death than
until Friday. when she died. Physi-
Sldlis were Cd ied Dul Cuiliu give no re-
lief. She suffered intensely and Bly,
denburg was apparently grief stricken,
attending her constantly. Her sister,
Mrs. Keller, also came. When she
died, the physicians gave the cause of
her death as cancer of the stomach and
the death certificate and burial permit
were made ont as that as the cause of
death. Blydt nburg decided to ship
the body to = mira for burial, at the old
home of his wife. and then he did an
thing, he had the body shipped
in a metallic coffin. The suspicious of
Mrs. Keller were aroused and she
communicated them to her sister. Mrs.
Harold, at Wauseon, and the parents
in Elmira. BiydenburE' came on east
with the body and the funeral, more
than ordinarily sad to the suspicious,
grieying relatives, took place June 1.
The husband seemed heartbroken,
and his apparent grief and fervent
players to God allayed the suspicious
that the rela ives held. In Il few days
went back and consulta-
lions We're held by the relatives and
friends and finally Attorney Ham and
Doctors Hartman and Campbell We're
when 1t was decided to have
the body eXhumed for chemical analy-
sis. j. w. Rosenborongh, father, of
Mrs. Blydenburg, went to Iowa to look
up the affairs of his daughter. It was