The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-05-12
MYSTERIOUS DEATH
Of FORMER DIVORCE
Ic UNnEp onDNTINv
IV u OUilU lN
Was a Patient in q Private
Hospital at Sioux Falls
to Analyze Organs.

to Analyze Organs.
Sioux Falls. S. D., May 7.-Prelimi-
nary to the investigation into the cause
OF the death of Mrs. Inez Hurt, a resi-
dent of Sioux Falls at the time of her
death, the substance of a dispatch from
Blnghamton, N. Y, indicates the activ-
ity of the officers wording under d.
rection of the states attorney for this
county. The dispatch says:
Eugene Reilly, sheriff Of Minnehaha
county, South Dakota, and DR.. c. l..
Loffler. a %coroner's physician at Sioux
Falls. yesterday disinterred the body
of Mrs. Inc Hunt, who died at Sioux
brought east for burial at Locust Hill
cemetery, near Hobart, Delaware coun-
ty, New York. These officers came
east, it is said, upon the initiative of
George j. 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 end William S.. Dart, of Ho-
bart. The organs were removed and
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 or 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
a year 6 and instituted divorce pro-
naIin pp 1Jr-t- u ~
tanned employment at the private hos
pital conducted by DR.. Whitfield Dun
ham, in Sioux Falls. Mrs. Hunt was
taken Ill with pneumonia, it is said,
early In March, but according to friends
who visited her just before her death,
she was not very i'll, and had none of
the symptoms of persons critically Ill
with pneumonia"
ALLIsoNs FORMER AIDE
WEBS DUBUQUE WOMAN
Dallas, $. D., May POSTMASTER
McNeely, of the town of that
name in Trip county, was married at
Hurd, member of one of the most
prominent families in that city. Mr..
McNeely is a candidate for republic
can state committeeman, also a claim
holder. and was for several years
private secretary to the late Senator
Allison.
Robert M. Hotter, a young attorney
here, was married at Grand Junction,
Colo, to Miss Anna Griffin. The bride
has a 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 1.-THE supreme
court held it's first session in the court
room of the new capitol this morning,
the case before 1t being one Of the
phases of the much contested McClel-
an estate from M%innehaha county.
Attoraey General Clark appeared for
the state In its claim for the property
as that of an e~scheated estate, and
Grigsby & Grigshy, of Sioux Falls, APP
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 ease
of the State VS.. the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road, to compel the
construction of a steel bridge at
Chamberlain, was called in the SUI
preme u yesterday, it did O get
very far.
The attorneys for the road filed a
petition and bond asking for a trans-
fer of the case to the federal court.
Arguments We're 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.