The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-06
MAY NOT PROSECUTE
County Officials Undecided What to
Do in Voiles Case.

No decision was reached today by the
| Shawnee county officials concerning
| the prosecution of the man responsible
| for the death of Cora NJ VOiles, the
waitress at the industrial school. In an
| ante mortem declaration, Miss VOiles
/ named the man who gave her the fatal
| tablets.
At the court house today County At
| torney Simon said he knew nothing OF
| the case except what he had received
| from the press dispatches in yester-
| days State Journal. He said that if
| the matter was officially brought 90
| his attention that the case would be
! handled just as any other felony. Fur
| ther than this Simon declined to &c
| into details.
4 have no knowledge as to the man
| in the case" said the county attorney,
"and have not received any of the
facts except such as [ read in the news
papers 1t is impossible to say at this
time just what will be done.''
Ed Voiles, city detective and a cousin
of the dead girl, declared that he knew
nothing of the case.
1T is impossible for me to say what
action will be taken said Voiles "as
I have not so much as seen my cousin s
statement
AT Kansas City today w. f. Voiles,
brother of the woman, stated that he
would not swear to a complaint against
the man who gave his sister mercurial
-
ing the inquest, Voiles seemed anxious
to drop the case
An autopsy in connection with the
death of Miss Cora Malva VOiles was
held at the undertaking rooms of Mar
shall & Freeman. The girl died a
result of mercurial poisoning, DR.. Gar
linsky found. At the conclusion of the
autopsy DR. Czarlinsky announced that
although the poison was administered
to the school teacher in Kansas and
In 7oN hi rr~4e
dictiOn to prosecute. he nevertheless
would hold an inquest and if the cor
oner'S jury placed the responsibility for
the girls death, he would assist the
Kansas officials in seeing justice done,
if the Kansas officials began criminal
proceedings. Regardless of the action
of the Kansas authorities, DR.. Car
linsky said he would try to place the
blame for the girls death.
Death was due to ignorance in thu
use of corrosive sublimate of mercury
tablets According to the story told by
Miss Voiles to DR. Coe at his sani-
tarium she used the tablets under the
direction of a man whom she knew in
Topeka and with whom she went driv-
ing when she was working as head
waitress in the Industrial School for
Boys A week before her death she
made a statement to A J. Herrod.
Kansas City, Kan. attorney, in which
she gave the name of the man involved.
he cannot be summoned as a witness.
An effort will be made by the coroner
to induce him to waive his rights and
appear at the inquest. Should he do
so, the facts in the statement given by
Miss Voiles would be brought out and
the name of the guilty man learned.
DR.. o. H. Parker and DR.. c. NJ. Coe
We're present at the autopsy DR.. Par
ker was consulted by DR.. Coe when the
girl was at the sanitarium. w. E
voiles. the brother. was at the under
taking rooms during the autopsy. He
refused to make a statement regarding
the case.
The body of Miss vofles was taken
at 7.15 o'clock this morning to Hollen-
berg. Kan, for burial. Voiles ordered
the body sent yesterday afternoon but
the action of DR.. CzarIinsky in decid-
ing to perform an autopsy changed his
plans.
Jesse c. Voiles of Bonner Springs.
father of the girl, and Mrs. J. NJ. Jones
of Puyallup, Wash. a sister. while in
the city, did not communicate with the
undertakers who held the body.