The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-11
He viii Quea IA Man in the
Ohio City ho Was Form
erly a Boar s!er at the Home
of Poisoned Nan.
OPINION OF THE WIDOW
UNLESS SOME PECULIAR SPEckS
ON TOBACCO WHITE cHEWED
WAS ARSENIC, SHE HAS NO
THEORY TO ADVANCE.

Issuing no order for the call of the
grand jury and unable to state wheth-
er such an order would be issued, ev.
en- though Coroner Bramkamp In his
verdict stated that Eddie K. White. q
Whitewater farmer. had died from ar.
senic poisoning at his home on De.
cember %. Prosecuting Attorney
Charles Ladd this morning when ques.
toned concerning the case remarked
that he had no evidence justifying
such action.
The prosecuting attorney has
knowledge of sensational stories that
were current in and around Whitewar
ter before Whites death and those
which were freely spread after his
death. He stated this morning that
he would go to Eaton. O.. and ques-
tion man who was boarder at the
White home during the fall. How
ever the states attorney says that
none of the information which he has
secured is reliable enough to warrant
call of the grand jury.
Talk Of Reward.
The question of placing reward
for the discovery, arrest and convic-
t1on OF the party or parties guilty
OF Whites alleged murder has been
considered by the authorities. AS vet
nothing has been done, and by some it
Is regarded as an unwise move to
make. Undoubtedly at the meeting OF
the county commissioners tomorrow
and at the special session OF the coun-
ty council later the matter OF reward
will be discussed.
There are those who state that in
their belief, nothing will ever result
from the coroner's verdict. They say
that it looks to them like the matter
would be investigated and the charge
dismissed without anyone ever being
arrested as suspect.
What Mrs. White Says
The widow, Mrs. Maude White. was
seen this noon. at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. isaac Chenoweth, 81 South Eley-
enth street. She says that she does
not believe her husbands death was
the resuH of a murder nor that he was
q suicide. Only one explanation can
be offered by her for his death. and
that Is that 1t was accidental. She re-
ferred to the fact that her husband had
taken three or four cheks of tobacco
which was kept In the buggy shed, on
the evening OF December 4, while on
his way to Richmond. On this tobac-
co, she alleges that there were small
green specks entirely foreign to the u.s.
ual appearance Of the brand. Her hus-
band, she says, was suspicious of the
and showed 1t to Bowman Ad-
dleman and others, on his way to Rich
mond that evening. The tobacco was
thrown away by her husband, after he
had chewed small portion OF 1t.
Unless this can account for his poi-
soning, Mrs. White can offer no expla-
nation for his death, she says. Her
husband was taken i'll after eating II.
but recovered in short time. He was
In az good health az usual
until the morning Of December 16,
when he became violently i'll and died
week 41CerW8rQS.
Theory 10 Oisproved.
The possibility that these specks
might have been arsenic, placed In the
sack by the murderer, seems to have
been removed by the statement OF the
coroner. He said that the arsenic
was white and that only by unusual
chemical actions. could its color be
changed to green. He says that he
loes not believe that tobacco would
produce this chemical action. Even
Z 1t was arsenic. so colored that 1t
would not be easily detected in the to-
,acco. there was not sufficient quanti-
y taken by the victim to cause death.
The verdict Of Coroner Bramkamp
excludes the suicide theory,
ind does disprove the accidental the
ny of death.
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