Milford chronicle., 1911-01-06
KISS KILLED
BRIDAL PAIR
Police Believe Poison in Chewing
Gum Caused Death.
SUSPECT JEALOUS WOMAN
Believe Some One Sent Poisoned Gum
to Miss Elosser at Cumberland, Nd,
and Death Kiss Followed.

Believe Some One Sent Poisoned Gun
to Miss Elosser at Cumberland, Nd
and Death Kiss Followed.
The mystery Of the death of Miss
Grace Elosser, Of Cumberland, Nd.
and Charles E. Twigg, of eyser, w
Va, her fance, appears as deep as il
did shortly after the bodies OF the
couple were found on the settee in the
parlor OF the Elosser residence on Sat
uIday, when the mother of the dead
girl went in TO speak to her
Twigg and Miss Elosser were to
have been married Sunday night II is
suspected that a jealous woman rival
was the poisoner, carrying out her plot
in most crafty way.
The mystery began with the discov-
cry on Saturday afternoon of the pret-
ty girl and her fiance sitting together,
hand in hand, on a sofa in the parlor
Of their hOme-both dead.
So swift, so instantaneous had been
the action of the poison upon them
that they sat is if in life.
The girls mother went into the
room, wondering only at the very long
ailence that she had noted between
the couple. She saw her daughter and
the young man sitting in apparently
the most natural fashion. They were
holding hands and looking into each
OtherB eyes.
Then the mother suddenly gasped
and stepped back. There was some
thing uncanny, she saw, in the intent
ness of the gaze the young man and
woman had fixed upon each other
There was that which gave a silent,
vague alarm in the fxedness Of their
pose.
= She spoke to them. They did not
answer. She went over to them. She
spoke again and received no reply
Then she put a hand on her daugh-
teT's head and spoke again
"Grace-GTace, she said. And there
was still no reply, so she gently shook
her daughter by the shoulder The
mother screamed then and ran from
the room. For the girls head had
iolled to a side and the other woman
had seen that the girls jaw was drop
Ded and her eyes fixed in the piteous
gaping Of death. rsf-7- i...---,-
Then when others came it was found /
that the man. too, was dead; that both (
had been suddenly and absolutely I
stricken The deadliest of poisons had (
been the medium.
This was established by tine autopsy |
OF the coroners physician, Dr. Thomas /
W. KOon. They had both taken cyanide (
Of potassium The man had more of
the poison in his system than the girl.
In the holiday season there had been
several boxes of candy in the house.
But the medical examination showed
Conclusively that neither Miss Elosser
pr her fance had eaten candy.
He had, however, in his mouth a ,
stick of chewing gum. He had taken r
scarcely more than two or three bites
% it. It had not been masticated into ,
z pulp. In Miss Elosser's mouth was !
no chewing gum. Z 7-i' =
The strange likelihood is being con- r
aidered by the authorities that the
stick Of chewing gum contained the t
deadly cyanide. Also that the young 3
man. with the gum in his mouth. had \
leaned forward to kiss his sweetheart 7
md that the kiss communicated the /
poison to her lips-a kiss offered in '
love that was deadly-the kiss of s
whose tragic character the ardent be-
ltower was in all ignorance. q
This is the only evidence that the !
authorities have so far secured to aid
hem in the way Of solving the amaz- +
ng mystery. +
II has been by no means proven that n
he chewing gum contained the deadly 6
POISON. But it seems to be the only
possible source from which the young q
nan and his sweetheart could have 4
aiken into their systems the deadly
.hemical The candy that was in the 4
Elosser home had been partaken Of by
II the members of the family without -
Il effect Moreover. chemical analy. n
is showed all this confectionery to be I,
n
The tips of the tongues Of both j
'wigg and the girl who was to have
cen his bride were red and infamed, h
uite as If they had been burned or
itteR. Cyanide, of course, takes i'm 2,
nediate action. The mere touching of II
grain of it to the tip of the tongue
viii cause death instantly.
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