Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-30

BlydenburgG1 was taken violently III
she had severe attack OF vomiting
and this no doubt prevented more
sudden death than came TO her, as sh
fingered very Ill un:il Friday, when sh.
died. Physicians were called. but coull
give no reMef. She suffered intensel,
and Blydenburgh was apparently grief
stricken, attending her constantly He.
sister. Mrs. Keller. also came When
she died, the physicians gave the
cause OF her death as urenis and the
death certificate and burial perml;
| were made out with that as the cause
of death. Blydenburgh decided to shir
the body to Elmira for suriai at the
| old home of his wife. and then he did
another unusual thing. H.. had the
body shipped in metallic coffin. The
suspicious OF Mrs. Keller were aroused
and she communicated them to her Sis
ter, Mrs. Harold. at Wauseon. and the
| parents in Eimira. Blyienbnrgh wen,
east with the body and the funeral
more than ordinarily sad to the suspl-
| cious, gr!evlng relatives, took place on
June l.
Blyderburgh ordered the casket en-
casad in n burglar proof vault and left
instructions with the undertaken to see
chat 1t was securely locked and then
cemented in the grave. and later ds al
legged to have remarked to friend:
'Jen'nfe's lips are sealed now: they can
never open her grave
Investigation Begun.
The husband scanned naarthroken.
and his apparent grief and fervent
prayers to God allayed the suspicious
that the relatives held. In few days
Blyienburgh went back and consulta-
tons were held by the relatives and
friends and finally Attorney Ham and
Drs. Hartman and Campbell were con-
suited. when II was decided to have the
body exhumed for chemical analysis. J.
w. Roseborough. father of Mrs. Bly,
eSnburgh. went to Iowa to look up the
affairs of his daughter. 1t was then
that Blydenburgh made serious blum
der. He employed an attorney to come
east and head off the investigation. and
selected as his agent no JESS person
than County Attorney Noble. the man
who would be called upon to prosecute
the crime. If crime there were. Mr..
Noble ven; to Wauseon and on hear
Ing the stories of relatives. attorneys
and physicians alphabetically stated
that he had been m!sled. and certainly
would not stand in the way of fu,.
investigation. He returned to E.dora
and then Caall.a news of an attempted
suicide of B!ydenburgh Then came
the repor, of Chemist Vaughn, Of Ann
Arbor. which stated that arsenic in
sufficient quantity TO cause death had
been found in the stomach.
The matter was then brought before
the grand jury in Hardin county and
Blydenburgh was indicted He fur
nlshed bonds of $4,000 and prepara-
tons Cor the trial were begun. The
trial has been one of the most stub
bornly fought that ever came before
jury in this county. Every inch of the
ground has been contested and both
sides have made the hes. case possible
under the circumstances.
Blydenburgh's Career.
Not a great deal OF Blydenburgh's
early career is known and a large par.
of his life up to his appearance at
Wauseon. Ohio, is more or less a mys-
terry 1t is known that he spent a good
many years IN New YORK and Brook
lyn and his parents are supposed to
have lived there. Practically nothing is
known about his first wife. People who
behave in his guilt have not hesitated
to start rumors that she met mysteri-
Gus death. but there are no known
grounds for believing that he killed her
except as a deduction from the fac,
that he is believed to have murdered
his second and third wives. While
nothing is known about his first Ven
ture in the matrimonial line, the Sec
ond is somewhat clearer. Suspicion az
to the cause of the death of the second
wife came about thru a sacio.ra'
civil case fled by a Mrs. Carrie Smith
OF Brooklyn, n. ", who is here attend