Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-11-20
WAS THIS GIRL POISONED !?
Miss Minnie Marchman Dies ia Ash ;
burn, Gn., in Commissions.

tents Of the stomach Of Miss Minnie
Marchman to finally determine wac
Their the death of this beautiful Young
girl was caused by poison, officers arc
searching for Tom Cleghoru. her
fiancee.
At the ]coroner's inquest the mo-
ther Of the dead girl testified mat
she had died after eight COMMISSIONS.
during which she foamed at rhc
mouth and ave every indicators tIat
she had been poisoned. The moitcr
had never seen her daughter take auv.
medicine and there was no trace o..
any in the house.
Preparations had been made for he
burial Of Miss Marcilman who mg
family physician became SUI sptcluus
rs to the cause Of the girls deathaN
ordeerd the funeral stopped. Gig.
horn, who has beer missing FOR snr
days, and the dead girl were sw, g.,
hearts, it Is reported, and it Was CON.
monty supposed that they would soon
be married. The two visitod Ash
burn together some few days ugn,.t
is reported, and while here CleyhoIu
is alleged to have purchase ruit
and candy, which he CAV M,as
Marchman. After eating these she
was attacked with convulsioDs aud
died in agony.
The dead girls friends clajl0 thot
Cleghorn had promised to mary h.r
and that the visit to AshburM vas
ostensibly for the purpose of getting
a marriage license. 1t is sta iad that
Cleghorn made some excuse Tor post
poning the marriage and the girl ~
turned to her home, six mile n the
country. Cleghorn disappeared aad
the girl died our days after.
Local physicians removed the glrl'a
stomach and forwarded it t. an At
lanta chemist. 1t is expected thaL
he will discover just what Kind Of
poison, II any, killed the Cir.
Minnie Marchman was one Of me
bellies Of the lumber country aud 'ne
little town Of Ashburn, the ocu0sy
seat of Turner county. Is veyy mNch
wrought up over the matter.
Wrecked Life, Said Civ.
Ashburn, Ca, Nov. ~15,--Tne
smouldering excitement In Tsr,ar.
county over the alleged pois nirg #
one Of tie mGSt popular young wo-
ucu, i the strange disappea%HcG,
u her nan.ec, Was tanned. YG&tS
e.. nv i statement; from -. ,n~taA, "t
the girl, Mrs. Matte ~MarcnInrj,. lh~L
her daughter had accused "a Cleg-
horn, Il few hours before slf Died IN.
coEvulsions, of having "wrtck d her
life"
81 never want to lay M! eyes IN
Tan Cicghorn again. He HI wreck
ed my ilfe and l want hin g., reap
his just reward" she said, aaauy.
as the conversation is recalltt hy her
mother.
But when her mother asNel .io
cause Of her strange illness, tod nat
she meant By her statement, tGa sirls
only reply was the s~orrowf'I. weep~
ing which marked her demcaOcv up
to the hour Of death.
The only time that she mnuuaact
her sweetheart, to whom Sic Eas
passionately devoted, was in her dy-
ing statement to Mrs. Marchma..
The Marchman family confines
certain that Minnie was poison. bU,
they do not accuse any one. r,cr!.
member Of the family is wor"i. z 70
unravel the mystery, and to 1.t oul
who is to blame. w. J. CochrHn her
brother-in-law, IS waiting to lcr the
report Of the Atlanta chem. 10
whom the girls stomach was 49, Tor
examination, before he starts aIt 20
find the druggist who sold the .o,gnlr
and her to track down the o. son
who bought it.
Moslcma Poison Christian V ,i's.
Constantinople, Nov. ia uow
danger confronts Christians 5u TuI.
key. MoSlens are pOisOnir tho
wells from which Christian gCr
their water supply, and a nun.'." Of
deaths have already occurred Er.
cause Of the absence Of sanitatiOu ana
medical supplies cholera and typhus
are spreading and the new cas- 9 each
day now average over fifty. small.
poX IS raging within the Turkish !n'S
between the inner and outer dtrensCs.
! 1lt hnnOh Nnuin, Docho tho mae ,Nf,.