Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-17
Evidence of Muir
der in Cyr Case===
Inquest Ordered

| Bangor, Nc, FeU. 16.--AS the result
| of new evidence being found concern
| ing the death of Frank Cyr of Sherman
on Feb. ). the county attorney has Or
dered an inquest to be held FOR a
| thorough investigation of the matter
which will take place at Sherman
| Monday afternoon. The death of Cyr
has occasioned considerable interest
throughout that section OF the country
| in which he lived. and various rumors
concerning his demise have been rife
| since the time.
The case has presented many pecu-
liarities and up to the present time the
general impression has been that he
died from strychnine poisoning and adj
| ministered the fatal dose with his own
hand. Recent developments in the case
make it take on a more serious aspect
and there is a reasonable belief that
some other hand other than his own
NAV have administered the dose, or as
| it is now believed. doses of the poi
son.
The stomach of the dead man, which
was removed by Medical Examiner
Nealev of Bangor. was sent to Ora w.
Knight of Bangor, analytical chemist,
for examination.
Prof. Knight has completed his
analysis and made a report on the
same to the county attorney, George E.
Thompson, and in the course of his re-
port, he states that he found fraction
Of grain of strychnine in the stomach.
He concludes his report with the state
mcnt: Il have no hesitation in saying
that death was most certainly due to
strychnine poisoning"
Cyr, according to the report from
Sherman. began to feel i'll early in the
morning of Feb. 5. He went to work
as usual. but soon after returned home,
and shortly after O'Clock he fell to the
floor in commissions His wife it is be-
ported at once took means to revive
him, and summoned aid.
Once he rallied, and becoming con-
scious said Il have been poisoned"
He lived till s o'clock in the evening
when he died in great agony during
commissions.
In the opinion of one man connected
more or less intimately with the case
if Cyr had lived from O'Clock in the
morning till 8 in the evening, II hours,
without an additional dose of strych-
nine he would have recovered.
A person only taking one dose, large
enough to cause death. would usually
die in two hours after the dose was
taken. or much sooner Where q per-
son lives over two hours it has been
the experience of medical authorities
that the poison would be eliminated
and the person ordinarily RECEIVERS.
The poison. also, should have all pass
cd from the stomach within two hours
after it WAS taken.
The ev. 90 in the case now points
strongly "mething more than mere
suicide All it looks as though addi
tional doses of strychnine We're given
to Mr.. Cyr during the day. or he re-
ceived them in some manner. This is
borne ont by the fact that the man
lived II hours after the first symp-
toms were found and then died in
commissions.
The exclamation that Cyr made af-
ter he regained consciousness L nave
been noisoned." may have strong bear
ing on the case. or it may be that ne
was net rational at the time ne sald
il. being in great agony from the Ell
fects of the poison. possibly sell ad-
minlstered.
,rbore is one point definitely settled
nv, the ANALYSIS of the mans stomach
ona that is that he died from poison.
whether he administered the dose him
Golf or il was done by someone else is
for future investigation.