The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-27
MYSTERY OF POISONING REMAINS UNSOLVE

. evidence that was brought ont in ia.
yor of one of the parties to the suit
seemed TO be automatically counter
balanced by another discovery in ia
yor of the opposition.
Disappearance of Evidence.
In reference to the disappearance
OF the analytical statement which
mad been made of the contents of
MRS. Childers' stomach after her
strange death, and which showed
the presence of three and a half
grains of strychnine, Dr. Simpson
said:
After got the paper from the
state chemist at Atlanta I put it in
a safe IN my office. This safe I sell
dom or never lock. Some time after
this Childers and had an argument
as to the wording of the document
10 settle the matter we went to nv
Office together and took out the GER
tificae.
After we had satisfied ourselves
as to the point in dispute l placed
the paper back in the safe, but did
do not lock the door. Childers was
the only man that knew that the
| paper was there. | have looked in
every corner of the safe and it is
not there now"
Did you put it in the outside part
OF the safe or into one of the smaller
inside compartments, doctor?" ne
was asked by the counsel for the de-
tense.
Il put it into one of the smaller
cabinets, but | left the key in the
lock" he replied.
While on the witness stand Chill
ders testified to purchasing a bottle
of medicine for his wife the day be-
fore her death and of leaving home
the next morning to return a few
hours later to find her dead.
Childers admitted under cross ex-
animation that he usually kept
strychnine, the poison alleged to
have been administered in a dose of
medicine bought by Childers, to kill
birds that damaged his crops.
The Arrest of Childers.
At the conclusion of the commit
ment trial Maud S. Childers left for
Americas in company with one of
his attorneys and his brother, Lee
5. Childers, solicitor of the City
Court of Americas, intending to go
from there to his fathers home in
Schley county He was arrested,
however, before his departure from
Americas and placed in Jail, where
he remained until he was taken to
Leesburg the next day by Sheriff
Smith of Lee county.
Childers and Kennedy were
brought face to face with each other
as the former was being led to his
cell following his arrival from Amer
icus. The two men glared malig-
nantly at each other for a moment,
and Childers then passed on to his
cell to await formal arraignment.
While greatly cast down by his ar
rest Childers seems confident that
he will be able to clear himself of
the serious charges against him.
Kennedy Little More Than Boy.
R. G. Kennedy, the third of the
leading characters in the drama now
being played, is a mere slip of a boy,
and will not come into his citizenship
until some SINE in October. He is
q
years a resident of Terrell county at
Bronwood, but who has recently
been conducting the Simpson House
in Smithville, the house in which
Mrs. Childers died. The Kennedys,
like the other two families leading
in this tragedy, hold the respect and
esteem of all who know them.
Young Kennedy has no set or fixed
occupation, and about his only job
known in this section before he went
to Carrollton was with the construc-
ton force of the Lee County Tele-
phone Company. Since the death of
Mrs. Childers, and especially since
the arrest of Kennedy, the dead wo-
mans name and the boys name have
been linked, but solely in laying Mrs.
Kennedy's death to Kennedy, and in
making that charge no one can as
sign a reason that might have actu-
ated the young man in bringing it
about.
Motive Lacking.
No word that would in the slight
est tarnish Mrs. Childers' fair name
has been uttered A motive to in
duce Kennedy to attempt Mrs Chill
ders' life cannot be suggested. Mrs.