South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-09
SOUGHT SUPPORT
OF MAUD TABOR
Mother Says Daughter Left
ReaItOr Because She Did
Not Want to Keep Him.
Special 70 The News Times

1915, and demanded money from
her the next day after the marriage.
Maud Tabor left Virgo and went
back to teaching because she did not
want TO support him.
Mrs Sara l. Tabor and her daugh-
ter. Maud, entered into a pact that
the body Of the one who died first
should be preserved until the other
died so that both could be buried
together.
Maud Tabor died in her mothers
ar1s In the summer Of 1916 from
an overdose OF chloroform, taken
TO relieve the earache, and no one
was present at her death except her
mother
Statements OF Officers.
These statements were made here
TO he authorities Sunday by Mrs
sara Tabor. mother az the woman
whose body was found IN a trunk at
Lawton, Mich. "a week ago. 10 is
"a strange story that the mother tells.
She said:
Maud Tabor my beloved daugh-
ter. whose whole being was wrapped
up I'm mine az mine was interviewer
with hers. died I'm my arms at our
home I'm LawtOn in June 1916 She
uied from the effects OF an overdose
or chloroform, TO the use OF which
she had long been addicted to allay
yevere pains i'm her ear No one
was present at the time other than
, and my darling girl
There was "a pact between us that
when death should call one Of us the
other would preserve the remains
until both could be laid together i'm
the earth. companions in the grave
as We had been in this world
Maud's Wish. She says
1t was Mauds wish l sacredly
obeyed it, as size would have done
had 1 departed ,rst And in the
years that have followed 1 have been
comfOrted IN the thought that my
dear daughter was near me.
Until today I nave taken no one
into my confidence. My son, Wal
ter. sitting here by you and me.
learns OF this for the first time as
you do. ] cannot feel that I have
done any wrong. Morally, 1 nave
performed a sacred trust. If I have
broken the law in keeping silence.
alone am to blame and am ready
TO suffer for st."
Mrs. Tabor and her son. Walter o.
Tabor. are awaiting the arrival here
OF authorities from Van Buren,
county, Mich. to take them TO the
scene Of the finding Of Maud Tabor's
body after il had been secreted in
a trunk for three years
Mrs. Tabor told a strange story.
JIG goes back nearly 40 years. The
tale deals with the courtship for her
daughters hand by Joseph Virgo. a
south Benz real estate man. She
denies the presence Of Virgo or Flor
ence Tabor Critchlow at the time Of
Maud Tabor's death. Here is Mrs.
Sara Tabor's story:
Nearer and dearer to me than
anything else on earth was my
daughter Maud She and my boy.
Walter. have always stood by me
through thick and thin. As FOR
Florence, my eldest child. she was
spoiled and petted by her father
Untl today ! have made il a stead
fast rule never IL say anything un-
Kind about her. believing that "a
mother must not speak i'm OF her
children.
Tells OF Fever.
When Maud was q little girl she
lad an attack OF scarlet fever. Il
left her with an ear trouble that re-
suited in deafness OF one ear. The
sir was sensitive and during an Of
her studies at the university and all
OF her years teaching in ogden and
in Michigan she used every means
SO conceal her iEirmity. but. worse
even than the deafness. she develop
ed asthma and with it intermittent
pains in the ear that caused her un-
told agony.
Kept awake often at night she
became habituated. first to using
sleeping tablets 10 was an over
dose OF such tablets that caused the
iilness described by airs. Cayken-
dali az the coroners inquest. the
time that we had TO rub Maud with
brandy To restore her. I called in
for help Mrs. CaykendaG and Mrs
McKeyes. the bankers wife. and
Bessie Johnson.
But that episode occurred in
1915, and not in 1915. as the dis
patches say. Joe Virgo was work
ing for me at the time and was
living at the house. do not re-
member his rubbing Maud with the
brandy, but he may have done So.
ChlOrOform Habit.
Maud repeatedly got these pains.
and then she got 20 usi1g chloro-
FORM. on that terrible day in June
Of 1916 she had been suffering
agony I found her lying half un-
conscious and realized in q moment
that she must have taken too much
OF the drug. took her i'm my arms.
bi:t Il was too late 10 summon help.
She passed away there as held her
Florence was not at home at the
time. Joseph Virgo was not present
Is 20 what was done afterwards 7
prefer 20 bide my time in telling IL.
I can clear myself before God and
man. Maud and I had agreed that II
either OF Us should pass away the
other would not permit the remains
20 be buried until death had called
the second OF Us. Then we were 10
be laid IN the earth together.
II have never told any one Of
this until today. Why should T.?