The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-12
EVANSVILLE POLICE UNABLE TO
DISCOVER SLAYER or TEL.
EPHoNE OPERATOR.
WATCH MARRIED WOMAN
Who is Suspected Of Administering
Poison Because of Attentions
Shown Girl BY Her
Husband.


tho pretty 1S-year-old telephone oper.
ator, who died mysterously en- Sun.
day, Jan. 10? This is the question
that has confronted Coroner Edward
Laval and the police officials of Evans
Vile many days. The case is still
shrouded in as much mystery as when
the death of the girl occurred two
W eks ago. That the gill was poi.
soued there is no doubt in the minds
'of the officers who are working on
the case.
Agnes Saulman was a pretty and at
tractiye girl and had many admirers.
She came here from Memphis, Tenn.
several months ago and soon obtain.
ed employment in the plant of the
Hercules Buggy company as a tele-
phone operator.
Companions Aid Man Hunt.
A short tim before her death one
of her employers told her that he liz
tended to promote her TO a better
position A purse has been made up
to assist the state in bringing her
murderer to justice.
The police admit that the case
has mcre mys erious features than
any case they ever confronted. 1t is
known that Agnes had numerous ad-
mirers and among them were married
men. One of the married men who
kept company with her and his wife
have figured prominently in the case
from the time of the girls death
They have been several times before
the grand jury
The death of thc girl occurred at a
local hospital on Saturday. Jan 10.
She had been i'll for several days be-
fore her death When she died IT
was announced that her death was
due 10 an overdose of corrosive subli-
ment that had been given her by
mistane. The coroner was not salts
fed with this solution and at once
started an examination The coro.
mrs verdict stated that Agnes came
to her death through mercuria poi
son, but how and by whom admins
tered he was unable to determine.
Became ~ Jan. t3.
The coroner with the aid of the
police, has learned that on Sunday. |
Jan. IS, the girl was sick in her room. !
In the room with her that afternoon
were her sister. brother,in-law and /
his wife, While they sat there talk. |
ing to the girl a certain married |
entered the room and after
a few words to Agnes |
handed her letter. Agnes read the
letter and destroyed it but before she |
died she told her sister that the |
woman said in the letter that he had |
about put out her light"
The theory Of the police is that |
some Strange prpn also on that |
same afternoon placed capsules con |
aiming poison by the side of some
Iuinine capsules that the girl had |
been taking for neuralgia
That same afternoon late, when |
everybody had left her room. the girl
became half delir.ous, and leaving her
room ran across the street 10 the
home of Mrs Rolf.r and fell on the |
doorstep in a faint.
When she was carried on the inside !
she was revived and said to Mrs Rol. /
'er; she has killed me. She gave
ne poison. She has at last made her
threat good. She has put out my
light"
The girl was removed 10 the hos /
oital where he fingered several days |
and died. She told her sister many |
-hings concerning the letter left in 4
ler room, and the sister will be al |
important witness in the case.
One Of her sweet hearts. a young |
nan employed at the Hercules Buggy
Works. was also with her a great /
leal during her illness. and his testi- |
nony will be important before the |
grand jury.
Girl Feared Poison.
II is known 70 the police that for 4
hrcc months before Agnes death she /
rad fear that someone would poison I.
1cr. II is said she has received M
ncrous letters from a married woma7 /
n which the latter said she would 4
put OFT her light" The envelope in +
which the letter was left in Agnes /
room on The afternoon Of Sunday
Ian. Is. was from the ST. Nicholas .
lotel in ST. Louis. A sampl= Of the F..
handwriting Of the married woman /
who has been figuring IN the case /
vas compared 70 the handwriting on T.
he envelope and an expert said the T.
work was thai OF one person.
This woman has told several stories 4
o the grand jury. Deputy Prescott /