The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-05-12
MYSTERIOUS DEATH
OF FORMER DIvORCEE
IS UNDER SCRUTINY
Was q Patient in q Private
Hospital at Sioux Falls
to Analyze Organs.

SIOUX FallS, >. u, May t-Frelinl-
nary to the investigation into the cause
Of the death of Mrs. Inez Hunt, q resi-
dent Of Sioux Falls at the time or her
death. the substance of a dispatch from
Binghamton, N. Y, indicates the activ-
ity of the officers working under d.
rection of the states attorney for this
county. The dispatch says:
Eugene Reilly sheriff of Minnehaha
county, South Dakota, and DR.. G. l..
Loffler, coroner's physician at Sioux
Falls. yesterday disinterred the body
of Mrs. Inez Hunt, who died at Sioux
Falls on March last and was
brought east for burial at Locust Hill
cemetery, near Hobart, Delaware coun-
ty, New York. These officers came
east, it is Nid, upon the initiative Of
George ]. Danforth, states attorney OF
Minnehaha county, South Dakota.
while the cause of death In Mrs.
Hunts case was originally given as
pneumonia, the South Dakota authori-
ties suspect death may have been
caused by poison. An autopsy was per-
formed by Coroner Thomas L. Craig,
Of Davenport, assisted by DR.. George
L. Hubbell and William S. Dart, Of Ho-
bart. The organs were removed ana
placed In Theoretically sealed glass jars,
certified to by Coroner Craig and sent
by express to Chicago for chemical
analysis. Sheriff Reilly and DR.. Loffler
are continuing the investigation in
Kingston and New York city.
Mrs. Hunt was the daughter Of Mrs.
Jonathan White. of Kortright, Delaware
county, and formerly resided In Bovina,
that county, with her husband, William
Hunt. She went to Sioux Falls about
year ago and instituted divorce pro-
ceedings, alleging cruelty. She OBJ
tanned employment at the private hos
pital conducted by Dr. Whitfield Dun
ham, in Sioux Falls. Mrs. Hunt was
taken Ill with pneumonia, 1t Is said,
early in March, but according to friends
who visited her just before her death,
she was not very Ill, and had none Of
with pneumonia"
ALLlsoN's FORMER AIDE
WEBS DUBUQUE WOMAN
Dallas, s. D., May 7.-Postmaster
Lee McNeely, of the town OF that
name in Trip county, was married at
Dubuque yesterday to Marian Kent
prominent families in that city. Mr..
McNeely Is candidate for republic
can state committeeman, also claim
holder, and was for several years
private secretary to the late Senator
Allison.
Robert M. Hotter, young attorney
here, was married at Grand Junction,
Colo. to Miss Anna Griffin. The bride
has claim near Winner.
william Rumber Of this place, was
married at Pierce, Neb.. to Miss Kate
Montgomery.
MCCLELLAN CASE FIRST
HEARD At NEW CAPITOL
Pierre, s. D., May THE supreme
court held it's first session In the court
room of the new capitol this morning,
the case before It being one Of the
phases of the much contested McClel-
an estate from Minnehaha county.
Attorney General Clark appeared for
the state in its claim for the property
as that Of an escheated estate, and
Grigsby & Grigsby, of Sioux Falls, ap-
peared for the so-called Arkansas
claimants" who are the only ones of
the many that started, who are yet
making a fight for possession Of the
property.
ROAD SEEKS FEDERAL
COURT IN BRIDGE CASE
Pierre, s. D., May 7.-When the case
of the State VS.. the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road, to compel the
construction of q steel bridge at
Chamberlain, was called in the SUI
preme court yesterday. 1t did not get
very far.
The attorneys for the road filed a
petition and bond asking for trans
fer of the case to the federal court.
Arguments were presented to this end
and the court has taken the applica-
tion under consideration, and further
hearing Of the case depends upon the
filing on this phase of the case.
LAND FILINGS HEAVY IN
BELLE FOURCHE DISTRICT
Belle Fourche, 8. D., May LAND
Office filings continue heavy at the To-
cal office, which will not be one year
old until July /. and up to date 1t has
accepted something over 5000 filings,
400 of those being for the month of
April. The Belle Fourche land dis
trict embraces 100 townships, includ-
| Ing all the lands under the government
irrigation project, most Of the filings