The Washington times., 1911-01-08
Was Favorite of Chorus.

1 would tell II, and thus relieve my
mind" said Miss May
Was Favorite of Chorus.
Miss May Elosser, who has been
closely questioned by the authorities, is
a school teacher in the Chapel Hill pub
lie school, this city, and always has
been looked upon as a bright young
woman. She has never had many
friends. She was infatuated with Twigg
after she first met him, but this friend
ship and infatuauion seemed TO cool
after her sister, Grace, became, as they
say here, Twigg's steady regular.
Friday night at the inquest 1t was
proved almost beyond a doubt that the
fainting Of Miss May the afternoon of
the tragedy was not an ordinary at
tack, but according to DR.. w. r. Foard,
the first physician to arrive at the
Elosser home after the tragedy, the
symptoms were those of cyanide poison
ing In some form. DR.. Foard said Miss
May swayed back and forth, staggered,
her face was tense and pale, her eyes
were sunken and with a far-away stare
in them. her teeth chartered; and there
was slight bloody frOth on her mouth.
which DR.. Foard says he wiped off
with his handkerchief
This blood froth is a peculiar symptom
to cyanide poisoning. DR.. Foard says
1t might have been caused by an epliep-
tic fit.
Ii has been said that she may have
inhaled some hydrocyanic gas, but this
is eliminated because there was little
gas emanating from the mouths of the
dead bridal couple. Miss Elosser ad-
mitted on the witness stand that she
had tainted only once before in her
life and that was when she was being
vaccinate6 while a small child.
There is hardly a doubt in the minds
Of the physicians who are connected
with the case tkat Miss May Elosser
had some of the deadly drug in her syS-
TEN, but they are at loss to account for
the method in which she obtained 1t.
Fruit Cake Only Evidence.
The only tangible evidence so far OBJ
tanned by the States attorney to solve
the tragedy, according to Mr.. Robb, is
that it has been established almost be-
yond a doubt that Miss Grace Elosser
met her death by eating fruit cake,
which contained potassium of cyanide.
DR.. Thomas w. Coon, the coroner's s
pysician and one of the most reputable
doctors in western Maryland, said to-
day that he would stake his life on
deadly drug into her stomach in the
fruit cake.
Potassium of cyanide was COM
mingled all through the fruit cake found
Of Miss Elosser,'' said DR.. Coon. while
] did not find any fruit cake in the
stomach of Twigg, am of the opinion
that he took the fatal drug into his
system by means of wine Alcohol Is
volatile and consequently there were no
traces of the wine in the stomach
Fruit cake and wine are the only
things on which the public and the
States attorney have to work. That
there was fruit cake and wine in the
ElosSer home the daY of the tragedy
is established bevon6 doubt by the tes-
timonY of the members of the Elosser
family. The statement of wine coming
from the Elossers, who are strict Meth
odistS, caused a stir in Methodist circles
in Cumberland.
Miss Nav admitted that they had a
jug of grape wine in the house, but says
she does not think anv was taken from
ii on the day of the tragedy. None of
the family can even account for the ap-
pearance of the fruit cake in the stom-
ach of Miss Grace, but 1t was there, say
the physicians who performed the au-
topsy.
Police Chiefs Theory.
The wine and fruit cake theory is
strongly believed by Chief of Police IT.
vine, who says he knows from personal
experience that TwiGs was fond of wine.
of course, wine and fruit cake go to-
gether. NV theory is that Miss Elosser
ate the poisoned fruit cake and that
not care for the cake. He must have
been given this wine in 4 glass, which
q think was removed from the parlor.
We eventually expect to solve this case,
but when ! cannot say. / think the
Elosser family can help US a great deal
in shedding light on the case, but for
some ipeXpltcable reason will not do
So
That the tragedy is telling on the
EloSser family was manifested today
Mrs. Elosser has aged much since the
death of her daughter; Mr.. Elosser is
stopped with grief, while Miss May is
exceedingly nervous. Friday night at
the inquest Miss May was greatly COM
posed, but today she is almost a nerv-
Gus wreck. Her face is pale and wan,
and she sat during the interview in a
reclining position, manifesting complete
exhaustion. When asked what she had
to say about the statements made by
Twigg's mother that she and her sister
Grace were not on good terms, Miss
May replied Indignantly:
Have l not already made denial
of that statement. That is enough. l
wish you would let US alone. The
newspapers in the big cities already
have printed too much about this mat
ter"
Last evening the city was all agog
with rumors that a member of the
EIosser family had committed suicide,
but this report was soon discounte-