The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-27

Main street She did not speak or regain
consciousness after being picked up.
An empty envelope from another drug
store, marked Poison, was found in her
room IN the upstairs tenement at SO Main
street last evening, and this morning Fred
II. Morse, who occupied the tenement,
found IN a stove in Miss Yeaws room a
small bottle which had contained poison
and which previously was IN the envelope.
Shortly before O'Clock G. Frank Haw
kins, who was waiting on the sidewalk
near Fentons store for Mrs Hawkins,
saw Miss Yeaw cross Main street from the
Vermont National bank corner and start
down the hill toward the entrance to the
Morse tenement, which is below the Cakes
barber shop She was walking very I'M
steadily, and appeared to be slipping on the
ice Presently she fell, and as she did not
arise Mr.. Hawkins started towards her.
as did Raymond +. Thomas, who happened
to be near. The young woman threw up
some of the contents OF her stomach, and
the young men carried her into the Brat
tleboro Drug Cos store.
DR.. William j. Kaine and Dr. Chester s
Leach, health officer, were summoned by
telephone but they were unable to restore
consciousness. They expressed the opin-
ion that she died of poisoning. States
Attorney + w. Gibson and Chief of Po-
lice George Wilson also were notified. Be
| fore her death a young man who had been
waiting for her in her room came into the
store on learning what had happened
Chief Wilson went to the girls room and
| found on her dresser an empty envelope
marked Poison" which came from To-
| cal drug store The officers went to the
store and found a record of a sale OF a
| cyanide poison mixture to Miss Ieaw on
| Feb. 10. 1t was put up in the form OF a
capsule, which was put into small bottle,
and the bottle was placed in the envelope.
| Miss Yeaw told the drug clerk that she
wanted the poison to kill dog, which she
said was in Dover
| After getting this information the off
GERS went to Miss Yeaw's room again to
/ look for the bottle but could not find it
| There was a fire in her stove at that time
States Attorney Gibson, after securing
what facts he could, issued subpoenas sum
moning a number of persons to an in
| quest to be held this afternoon, which vii
be private and asked DR. b. H Stone OF
the state laboratory of hygiene at Burling
ton to come here to perform an autopsy
this afternoon.
One fact connected with the case whicl
thus far has not been explained Is tha
Miss Yeaw had a dollar bin in one hand
1t has been suggested that she might hav'
taken the poison and after beginning t
feel its effects had started for a drug stor
to buy an antidote Not much weight !
given this theory, however, as she was ol
her way home with the money when sh
fell and had not been to a drug store 5
far as has been learned.
Mr.. Morse saw her cross the street fror
: east to west Just before 6 o'clock. Fl
! thinks she had letter in her hand. If sh
! crossed the street to mail "a letter tha
: might account for her being on the wa
: back when she fell.
During the past several weeks the your
woman had frequented the road cam
where federal worl, has been done on ii
Marlboro road and complaints hay
: reached the states attorney relative
= conditions there. Miss Yeaw was abo'
! 23 years old. The body was taken
( Moran & Rohde's undertaking room
Z Definite funeral arrangements have n
Il Il been made. but it is expected that
q service will be held in the undertake.
- narlors and that the body will be place
= in the tomb in Prospect Hill cemetery