The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-03
OFFICIALS WILL
USE THE PROBE
Acting Coroner and County
Attorney to Learn More
About Deaths.
MUCH MYSTERY IN CASE
INQUEST WILL BE HELD n REL
ATIVES INSIST.

That murder in its most malignant form
may have been behind the death of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank L. Kaiser, who Gied Of
arsenic poisiOning after eating dumplinga
last Sunday, IN which the deadly poison
in powder form had been used in place
Of baking powder, IS held as reasonable
by the county attorney, Job p. Lyons and
Stanley A Hanks, acting coroner.
RumOrs Of foul play arising IN the
neighbOrhOOd Of Elizabeth avenue, where
the kaisers lived, have reached these Of
ficials and as a result Of their prelimin-
airy Investigations strong cirCumstantial
evidence that all was not mere accident
in the tragic deathS of the happy couple,
has been uncovered and may lead to the
revealing of one of the most Sensational
crimes Of the year
Although an inquest over the dead bod
les is not considered legally necessary, a
thorough investigation of how the can Of
arsenic came to be in the home of the
haisers. who placed it there and for
what purpose, will be rigidly prosecuted
by the county attorney. So far nothing
has been arrived al TO justify the placing
of suspicion on any one The Kaisers. If
they died by other than accidental means,
were at most but the indirect victims of
plot TO murder another person. That
person is held To be Mrs. Johanna Elder.
q years old, mother Of a. 3. Elder who
moved to EscOndidO. Cal. two months
ago leaving her living with the Kaisers
at 3io Elizabeth avenue.
Facts Developed.
The facts i'm thu casg, so far as nro5ing
and investigation has brought them out,
are these. When Mr.. and Mrs. a. B.
Elder moved to California the latter part
OF June, quantity Of arsenic was left in
Royal baking powder can.
The old lady placed the poison in her
cupboard. where it remained for nearly
two months. Two weeks ago Mrs. Kais-
er, who had moved into the house soon
after the Elders departed, took the can
of supposed baking powder, at the re-
quest of Mrs. Elder. who declared she
had no use for fl. The first opportunity
Mrs. Kaiser had to use it was last Sun
day. when she placed a large spoonful
of it in the dUmplings, the eating OF
which caused the death of herself and
Mrs. Elder had been in the habit OF
eating Sunday dinners with the KaiserS,
but on this occasion had attended church
and had arrived home too late for dinner,
thus escaping the fate that overlook the
kaisers.
The actions of a former roomer is "a
further mystery According to Johanna
Elder, the man came to salt Lake sew
eTal weeks before A Is. Elder and wife
went to California and took rooms with
them at 34S Elizabeth avenue He saved
there three weeks and is said to have sud
denly disappeared leaving all his effects,
but taking the empty suit case of Mr.
bill amounting to So. While i'm Salt Lake
he prOfesSed to he a professor of phySi-
cal culture and had attempted to inter
est the Elders i'm a business scheme to
start a culture school
Authorities Puzzled.
What bearing the circumstances of his
sudden disappearance and sthe alleged
finding of the can of supposed baking
powder in his trunk has on the case as d
whole. the authorities are not ready TO