Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-10
MURDER UNS0LvED
Cumberland Tragedy as Deep
a Mystery as Eyer.
MANY OFFER EXPLANATIONS
States Attorney Robb Besieged
With Letters From Women.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Nd, January 1u. -
States Attorney David \. Robb today
said he is receiving letters from all over
the country from persons who suggest
solutions of the Twigg- Elosser tragedy.
\ woman in Montrose, Ia. who styles
herself Vice President NJ. l.. p charges
the tragedy to hypnotic suggestion or
controlling power. maybe given or put on
their clothes month or forty-eight hours
before their DEATH She argues about
suggestions made upon them when they
were together, leaving their stomachs in
spasmodic condition as If by slow poi
SON." She thinks the discovery she has
made may solve the mystery. offering
hypnotic suggestion as the controlling
power She urges the employment of a
detective who knows something about
thought or mind reading.
a woman correspondent from Atlantic
City thinks that because Mrs. Elosser
steamed open letters which her daughters
received from their beauX before they
reached the daughters hands, would
know very much. She adds:
Love Matches Have Three.
You look out. my boy; don't let the
always has three in it, This corre-
spondent wants ''old Mrs. Elosser's char
acter traced fifty years back She
makes q number OF suggestions prompted
by alleged admissions of jealousy on
part of members Of the Elosser family.
States Attorney Robb today practical
ly admitted that he has given up. He
said he knows no more than when he
started with an II am through" sort of
sigh. He added
II have no suspicion against any par
ticular person.
According to tine police much of the
testimony of the Morris lad should not
be diScredited. Coroner Beall pins much
faith in it,
The police have witnesses who will
testify that they saw the eight-year-
old boy looking in the door at the
Elosser home. The boy at the time
ran home and told his mother that he
saw Twigg and Grace sitting on the
sofa. and when Mrs. Elosser shook
Grace glass she held in her hand
failed to fall. Twigg also had a glass
in his hand. according to the boy.
Was Twigg FatalistP
After much investigation of the
character Of Twigg and his ante
cedents many have come to believe
that the term fatalist fitted him.
While opinion is divided as the cause
of the tragedy, a number hold to the
conviction that Twigg did it and that
a jealous person had communicated to
his ears idle gossip about Grace EIOs-
ser. He was a desirable catch and
divorced woman was getting him.
Twigg. it is understood, was very sus-
ceptible to gossip.
J. c.. McKown of Pawpaw. w. Va,
manager of the Alegany Orchard Com
pany. who denied that he said he sold
Twtgg cyanide for orchard spraying pur-
poses, said he got wrongly quoted be-
cause of a conversation In which he said
he had sold the Twigg Orchard Company
poison. This poison was construed as
cyanide. whereas he sold arsenate OF
lead.
However. he said the Twigg Orchard
Company, in which Twigg was half own
er. may have secured cyanide of potas-
SUM from the Keyser camp of the Allie
sany Orchard Company. A thorough in
vestigation has developed that practically
all the orchardists Of this locality use
cyanide of potassium for spraying.