The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-16
is NEAR
SOLUTION
The Cumberland, Nd, Poison
Mystery Clearing
MAY BE KNOWN In WEEK
Sad Incidents in Life of Grace Elosser.
Suicide, Deposition from Ministry and
Divorce Fate of Three Figures
in the First Marriage.
MAY BE KNOWN in WEEK

Cumberland, Md, Jan. l6.-An Official
who is very active in the efforts TO run
down the Twigg CLOSER poison mystery
Saturday night said:
1--WE know more than we did day
or two ago We are going to get at
the bottom Of it. / would not be sur
pfised if all were mfolded in less than
week. We are rapidly nearing a SOLD
| ton"
This official added that all theories
had been thrown aside and they were
now looking to obtaining evidence from
the Elosser home that would clear mp
the mystery, All are agreed that evil
dence is sewed up there,
No charges are made against any one
and no matter how the deaths Of the
engaged couple may have come about, it
is believed that the evidence OF solu-
tion is to come from the place Of the
tragedy
There were number of callers at the
Elosser home last week May Elosser
returned to teaching school An officer
had friendly talk with May at her
home in the presence OF a third per-
son. The Illustration Of Lady Macbeth
washing her hands and the spots still
being there was used by the interview
er in the course OF the conversation
The young woman talked with such
frmness and straightforwardness as to
convince those present that she knew
nothing as TO the cause Of the tragedy
or how it came about.
Tragedy seemed to follow the wake
OF Grace Elosser, one of the victims.
When nineteen she eloped with Maurice
Cameron Wilson and they were mar
ried at the house of Perry McEltish in
Cumberland McElfish later removed TO
Ohio where he committed suicide. Rev.
Theodore J Yost who performed the
marriage ceremony, was later deposed
as pastor OF St Paul's Lutheran church.
He left the ministry, went into speeula
ton and met with reverses and financial
disaster. In January, 1908, Grace Elos
ser divorced Wilson.
Grace Elosser. Maurice Wilson and
Charles +. Twigg were school children
together at Flintstone, this county.
Grace Elosser was introduced to Twigg
at the Cumberland fair last October
Then the short courtship which culmi-
mated in the tragedy began, This was
the first time they had met since chill
dren at school more than 20 years be-
fore, and it did not then occur 10 her
she was renewing the acquaintance OF a
sehoolmate in her childhood
On the morning Of Dee. 81, before he
came to Cumberland and went to the
death parlor at the Elosser home, Twigg
swept clean the sidewalk around his
store, which occupies street corner at
Keyser, w. Va. This bit Of work he
was never known to have done before.
He also had the furniture in the parlor
Of his home rearranged, to make space
for Grace Elosser's piano, to be shipped
from Cumberland. In this same space
was set his easket on the following
night, which was to have been his wed
ding night.
Two detectives, one from Baltimore
and the other from Philadelphia, con-
tinue to work on the tragedy. Despite
denial, persons who know Twigg and the
affairs Of his orchard company say that
a year or so ago cyanide Of potassium
was used in killing insects in his peach
orchard. The supply then exhausted, il
is said, was not renewed. All other
thereabouts use the poison