The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-09-12
''SLOW DEATH"
POISON ONCE
USED BY HIM
Lundin Told 1t May Be the
Same as Found in
Victims Body
MAY CHARGE MURDER

A murder charge will un-
doubteoIy be filed against "or."
Pereivsi v. Allen. Prosecutor
Lundin said Tuesday. " II can
be sscertsined that strychnine,
said TO have been found In the
body OF Miss Anna m. Daniel
son, was administered prior 70
her death here last July In the
Sheridan apartments, which
she shared with him a. his
wife.
According 10 information furnish
ed Lundin Tuesday by Walter r.
Thayer. chief of the local Burns
Detective agency. Allen had been
Experimenting for years with =
SLOW death formula which be 10
said to have obtained from fell
low prisoner while confined In the
Illinois state reformatory 10 1895.
Lundin said there was a bare
possibility that the fluid used
to embsir, Miss Dsnieison'o
body might have contained .
quantity OF stryehnine.
To Hold "Dr." Allen
we will hold DR. Allen" said
Prosecutor Lundin Tuesday. with
out pronouneing sentence for the
crime CT which n was convicted
yesterday until can learn from
Dean Frankforter whether the
strychn'-e he found was admins.
tered iore death or might have
been contained in the embalmins
fluid.
Es-Wte Tells Of Poison
Much new light was thrown on
the mystery Tuesday by Thayer.
who. for the first time since Al
lens arrest. is said to have fur
nished evidence of a possible mo-
tive for Miss Danielson's death.
IL has been learned. according
TO Thayer. that A. n. A. travellers
checks amounting 10 $500 and is-
sued to Miss Danielson had been
indorsed and cashed by Allen.
These checks will be placed In ev-
idence in case murder charge 10
filed.
Detectives for the Burns agency
who visited Aliens first wife and
ether relatives and acquaintances
OF his reported that five witnesses
can be produced to testify con-
corning the slow death formula"
Gets Formula in Reformstory
Thayer's Information given Lun-
din reports the first Mrs. Allen as
saying Allen had often talked OF
the SLOW death" He told her, II
is said. that he got the formula
from a young chemist in the Iii.
nois reformatory and that II would
slowly kin person without leav-
ing trace in the stomach.
On one occasion. she is said to
lave told the Burns detective. she
accompanied Allen TO the beach
near San Francisco. where they
had a hot drink together. This
was about l0;S0 a. m. The next
she knew. II Is said, she was In a
hospital ward. and It was midnight.
The police said they had picked
her up on the beach at low tide
with her money gone, and all
marks OF Identification removed, 1t
is said.
Experimental on Cats
Thayer said he had found wit
nesses who would testify that Al
len had experimental for several
years with the SLOW death" on
cats and dogs. At one time. Il Is
said, he tested the formula on his
young daughter. now is years old.
who became SO i'll that physician
was hastily called to revive her.
Word that chemical analysis
conducted by Dean F'rankforter. OF
the University of Minnesota. had
disclosed the presence of strych-
nine in unmistakahle quantity was
received In a telegram from Min
neapols by Lieut.. Wilmot A. Dan
ielson. the dead girls brother.
Monday, within few hours of the
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