The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-04-28
DYNAMITE USED
TO WRECK HOME
Disappointed In Love, Woman to
Destroy Home and Family,
THE OCCUPANTS ESCAPE INJURY
DR.. Mary Guthrie Of Carthage, ~,
Under Arrest, Charged With At
tempt to Murder Or. Hall and
Wife and Mrs. Halls Parents.

p three miles east of Prairie City was
wrecked Saturday night at 11:45
o'clock by terrific explosion of dy.
Mantle.
DR.. Mary Guthrie, of Carthage, Ill.
is being held in the town Jail on sus
picion that she fired the charge un,
dcrneath the bedroom of her former
in-law to Mr.. Quick.
While the entire front of the farm
dwelling was shattered by the ex
plosion, none OF the four occupants
eight room house was demolished and
the furniture was completely de,
stroyed.
In the yard at the Quick home yes.
terday was found one of a pair of
gloves which Miss Guthrie is said to
have purchased here Friday.
Later in the cell was found peck,
ct cigar lighter, which the police be
lieve might have been used to touch
OFF the dynamite fuse.
When she was arrested at the door
of the hotel at o'clock Sunday morn
ing and asked to give an account of
herself, she said she had been out
walking and had lost her way.
DIR. Hail. who married Myrtle Quick
in February, attended Weltmer col.
lege III Nevada, Mo, three years ago
when DR.. Guthrie was studying mag
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close friends and it is said that they
were at one time engaged. The Prai-
RE City authorities suspect the WON.
an healer of having attempted to de
stroy her former lover because of his
marriage to Mr.. Quock's daughter.
Mrs. Hall is twenty-three years old
and her husband is thirty. Dr.. Hall
practiced magnetic healing in Colfax
for two years and was stopped for
not holding state certificate. He
is now under 5000 bonds, imposed by
the district court to prevent him from
practicing.
DIR. Mary Guthrie is forty-fve years
. old and was graduated in Dr.. Halls
class at Weltmer college in 1907.
Unit! recently she has practiced at
Carthage. H., where her parents live.
She is a cousin TO Kennedy Fl. Guthrie
of Des Moines, one of the proprietors
of the Gutbrie-LOrenz flower and seed
store
Early last week DIR. Hall received
letter from Reginald Smith at
Ottumwa, asking him to go there to
render professional services DR..
Hall stated at the time that he did
not remember Of ever having met a
person by that name. Following the
explosion the suspicious letter was
compared with those he had received
months before from DR.. Guthrie and
he believes the handwriting to be the
same.
DIR. Mary Guthrie arrived in Prairie
City from the east on the keOkuk and
Des Motnes branch of the Rock Island
on Friday morning at . o'clock. She
was clad entirely in brown and was
conspicuous because she wore two
wells, the outer one of brown and the
inner one black. She took suite of
rooms at local hotel.
Early Saturday morning she SeCur
ed livery team and asked to be driv-
en- into the country. She asked the
driver to tell her the names of the
farmers who lived in the different
houses, and when he pointed out the
Quick farm, Miss Guthrie is said to
have told him to return to his work
in town, and that she could find her
way back without any trouble.
During her stay here. Miss Guthrie
has taken care not to be seen i'm the
streets without heavy wells and dark
Golored glasses.
The entire front portion of the
house i Caved III, and the entire roof
torn off, and every wall damaged. Mr.
Quick estimates that his loss inClud
Ing furniture will reach $4,000. It is
considered miraculous that all eY
Cp!'oh injury as timher6 and glass
were hurled in every direction. The
cHrlr zion wag plainly heard in Prairie
CIT, and awakened many people, who
th"uth t some of the banks in the city
had been dynamited.
Prairie city ha' been in a state of
feTeriJh excitement since the wreck
1ng ct tho Quick home. More than
600 peppl" visited the scene Sunday.
MANY coming from surrounding
towns.
Marshal Waddell says that he does
not doubt but that Dr. Guthrie Is the
dynamiter! He believes that she
used long tino fuse to discharge
the dynamite and was possibly half
way from the ghouse to town when
the explosion occurred. "| .rt 'r
Or, Alexander Hall said today that
Dr.. Mary Guthrie became infatuated
with him when they we're in college,
and urged him to marry her, but he
refused because of the difference In
their ages. He says she followed him
to st. John. Kan, then to South Da.
kota. and later to Des Moines. When
they confronted each other in the Jail
at Prairie City today she flew into
rage and said: Il did not intend to
allow any other woman to have YOU"