Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-01-07
HINT AT SUICIDE
PACT IN MYSTERY
New Witness Comes Forward
In Double Poisoning.
TELLS STARTLING STORY
Declares He Saw Engaged Couple
slutehing Glasses After Death and
Blue Bottle at Their Feet.

Blue Bottle at Their Feet.
Evidence that Grace Elosser and
Charles Twigg held glasses, contain
ing a pale liquid, when found dead on
the settee in the Elosser home at Cum
berland, Nd. the victims of the subtle
and sinister cyanide Of potassium, last
Saturday afternoon. gave rise to the
theory that the engaged couple had
committed suicide by prearranged
pact on the eve OF their wedding.
This evidence was given by Harlan
Norris. The lad was passing the
Elosser home at the time, he says,
when members of the family ran out
and called for a physician, declaring
that Twigg and Miss Elosser were Ill.
With the doors to the Elosser home
open and no guard there, the lad,
through curiosity. strolled In. The door
opens directly from the street to the
parlor. in which Twigg and Miss Elos-
ser were chatting.
In the hand of each was clutched
glass, declares Norris. He says that
when Mrs. Elosser shook Grace the
glass did not fall. and that the con-
tents were not spilled. He said that
one was like a jelly glass and the
other a wine glass. In each was the
liquid. the agent of death, potassium
of cyanide.
Bottle at Feet Of Two.
Norris also declared that at the feet
Of the couple there lay blue bottle.
with a strange label which he could
not read.
Norris told his mother the story
when he reached home Saturday night,
and she in turn caused him to reiter-
ate 1t, since 1t may aid in solving the
poison mystery.
In connection with the story of Nor
ris, it can be said that the states at
torney. David f. Robb, and the police
searched the entire Elosser home for
traces of the receptacle in which the
poison was obtained. and also for a
means OF Twigg and Miss Elosser car
rying it to their lips. These, almost as
if hidden or destroyed, cannot
found, fact puzzling and also baffiin
to the inquisitors.
The suicide pact theory probabh
will be substantiated or smashed Al
the coroners inquest.
In circles where the double suicid
Is not entertained other theories pr
vail. one that Twigg killed Miss Elc
ser and himself. and the other that
member of the Elosser family kno'
something Of it. although no names
mentioned. AS the adherent is
clined. so the theory
To Quiz Sister Again.
At the inquest Miss May Eloss
sister of the dead girl. will be s
jected to a rigid examination, CO
ment has been made uprl Twigg's4
expected visit to the home of NJ
Elosser on Saturday Afternoon, wi
he was not expected until veni
This was explained by b ,er-
law. Edward Kimmerly, part
the vast orchards at Keyser
the home Of Twigg.
Kimmerly says that Twig
dered wedding suit from
Chicago. and the company +
pressed the goods. Fearing
ment, Twigg decided to pu
outfit in Cumberland
Members of the Elosser =
assumed an air that suggests lndh
ence in the mystery. If 1t be true
the burden of the crime lies WI
the Elosser family seat, they are
tious and crafty.
The Twigg family are furnishing
authorities with every aid which
shed the faintest ray of light on
problem.
States Attorney Robb admits
young couple did not commit sui,
or that Twigg killed the girl and
took his own life, yet he Is retic
either from fear or lack of knowlt
OF the murderers.