The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-16
POISON MYSTERY
NEARS SOLUTION
Official Says All May BE Known
of Tragedy in Less Than
Week.
SAD LIFE OF GRACE CLOSER
Suicide, Deposition From Minis
try and Divorce Fate OF Fig
urcs i'll Her Marriage.

Cumberland, Md, January l5-An
Official who Is very active IN the efforts
10 run down tho TwiSp- Elosscr poison
mystery tonight said
We know more than we did 3. ,Iay
or two ago. We are going to get at
tue bottom of II. l would no, he sur.
priscd If all were unfoldcd III less than
solution"
MS ohicill added that al theories
hai pccn thrown aside ana thcs. were
no" looking 10 obtaining evidence from
nc :losser home that woull clear up
me mystery. All are agreed that cvi.
acncc Is scwcd UP there.
No charSc5 arc made against any
me ana no matter how The deaths of
tne engaged couple may luvc come
about IL Is believed that tic evidence
OF solution Ia 10 come from the place
of the tragedy.
ihcrc have been number Of callers
~ the Elosser homie this week May
Elossei returned 10 tcaci.ing school.
an officer had Il friendly talk with MAY
ht hcr nome in the presence Of a third
ierson The illustration Of Lady Mac
beii, washing her hands a,,i The spots
sun belns thor. was usoi py the In
tcfNicwcr IN til. course OF the convcr-
bdti"h The young woman talked with
shch hrlnncfs ana Observation-Disclosures
Us TO convince those present, that she
Knew nothing Us to The Gauge OF the
tragedy OF how II came about
raGcdy seemed to follow the wake
ci TTacc EioSscr. one OF the victims
Nhen nineteen she clipped with
Maurice Cameron Wilson and they
We're married nt tile house of Perry
McElhsh IN Cumberland. McElnsh later
removed 10 ONO, whore he committed
suicide The Ecv. Theodore j. Yos,.
"n0 performed the marriugc ceremony.
WAS later dcposcd as pastor Of 1T
Paul's Lutheran Church. He left Tho
ministry. went Into Speculation and
hi.t with revcrscs and financial dis
ester. la January 1905 Grace F;lossc!
divorced Wilson
Grace Hlosscr. Maurice Wiiilson and
Charles l. Twlsc were school children
toEc'hcr at Fiintstonc. this county
tface Elosscr Mac introduced to
TwirE ~ the Cumberland Fair las,
October Then tho shor, co,rtshin
which eliminated IN tie traced. Iegar.
Tbs was tho FIRST lime they had mot
since children a, school more thAn
twenty years before aud Il did not
then occur to her she was .cuc,vInp
the acquaintance of schoolmatc III
her childhood
on The morning of December 81 be-
fore lie came TO Cumberland and Wen,
to tho death parlor Mt tho l.iossrr
home. Twigg swop, clean tic sidcwnik
around his store, which occupies u
street corner a; kcyscr, W Va This
bit Of work he was never known To
have done before. He also had the
furniture In the parlor OF ris homo re-
arranged To make space for Grace
flosscrs piano. 10 ne shipped from
Cumberland In this same space was
Sc, his caskct on tho following night.
Which Was I" have hccn his wedding
night
Iwo detectives. ono from Baltimore
and the Other from Philadelphia. con
Time 10 work on tho tragedy Despite
denial. persons who know Twigg aud
IN" affairs of his orchard company ga
that a year or 80 ago cyanide III potas-
SUM was used in killing insects tn his
peach orchard. Tho supply ihcm cx-
hahStnd' II Is said, was not renewed.
~, "tnor orchards hcrcahou,s usc tho
poison