The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
chocolates in Her Pockets Will
Be Analyzed Now.
"SHE is DEAD-SEE YOU SOON"
This Is George Cruise Telegram
to Girl After Wife's Death.
Relations Between Two Shown
in Inquest Today.

caused the death of Kathleen Foley.
80, at her home, 1878 Lane street
Friday night, was brought out this
morning when a coroner's inquest was
begun in the city court room in the
court house.
DR.. c. B. Van Horn, one of the ply
sicians called TO attend the dying girl
Sald ne noticed her plush coat lying
on the table in her home. In one of
the pockets, he said he found a plain
sack containing few pieces of choco-
late candy. The candy will be ana
lyzed. officials said today.
George Cruise, the girls lover, was
arraigned in the court of Topeka to-
day on a charge of attempting to bribe
Miss Foley not to testify against him
at his preliminary hearing in Wich-
ita, where he is charged with wife
murder. Cruise pleaded not guilty. He
is confined in the Shawnee county jail.
Cruise was arrested by the Wichita
police Saturday and was brought to
Topeka Sunday by Sheriff Robert
Miller and Tinkham Veale, county at
torney- He admitted to officers that
he had given Miss Foley two blank
checks and told her to fill them in to
cover her expenses, it was said.
The candy, officers believe, may hold
considerable significance. That she
wore her coat when she went to the
home of Mrs. A. L. Whitcomb, 1912
West Thirteenth street, to stay all
night. has been established. That the
coat was found in her own home later
was evidence that she wore it on her
return trip at II o'clock that night, II
was pointed out. The fact that the
candy was contained in one of the
pockets may be an explanation of her
death, officers think.
Tells of Blank Checks.
John Foley, the dead girls father,
testified this morning that he was pres
h
a check for S25 and also two blank
checks to which he signed his name,
telling her to make them out for what
ever amount she needed. He insisted
that she and her mother leave the CITY
at once repeating several times that IL
she testified at his trial that it would
mean ninety-nine years in the pen Tor
me" Foley said. The father said this
conversa ton took place in the oIIlce
of the Wear sand company, 1lo west
Ninth street, where kathleen was EN-
ploved as bookkeeper. She called hlm
IN IT the College Hill bakery and
asked him TO come down, that Cruise
was ~oinc to he there, he said.
after the conference in the office,
Foley said. the three went to the Foley
home. where Cruise resumed his en-
trco ties for Kathleen and her mother
10 leave the city. Foley said Kathleen
Gid rot promise to leave.
Cave Back Diamond Ring.
+, ley said that the day after the
death of Cruse's wife. Cruise wired
Kathleen that he was coming thru
Topeka to Kansas City and asking her
t. meet him at the depot. The girls
father said she told him afterward
that Cruise wanted the diamond en-
ga@cment ring which he had given her
before Christmas.
"She said he told her not to hand
it to him. but to slip it in his pocket"
{
requested"
Foley exnIaineI the fact that he did
not open the letter which came ad-
dressed to him from Cruise the day of
, Eathleen's death by saying he had
made an agreement with Cruise that
the latter was to write to kathleen
but send the letter to her father.
''IIe said he didn't want her to write
to him or his mother" said Foley.
ALSO. he said he didn't want to send
her any letters. because they would
'ect onto him. He said he would send
the letter to me. SO when letter
came I took it to her. The second and
last letter came IL me Friday of the
night she died. and I knew it was for
her. so l didn't open it She read the
letter and put it in the stove. 1t was
large and bulky"
Laughed After Letter
He said Cruise had told Kathleen to
burn all letters she received from him
at once.
He said the letter she received Fri
day night apparently had no effect on
her and that she laughed and chatted
gaily during the evening with Miss
Katherfn Longaker, girl chum, who
called at the house.
Foley said he could not remember
that the family ever had any poison
in the house and was sure there had
been none around lately.
He said that Kathleen went to Mrs.
Whitcomb's house about o'clock and
Immediately after she left he went to
bed. He was awakened by hearing
her at the foot of the stairs calling
Mamma he said. He and Mrs. Fo-
ley came downstairs.
They VIII Kill Her,
rShe kept saying: oh. they made
me swallow something, and it burns -
Foley declared. He said he was not
sure whether she said "he" or they
made her swallow som ething. She
said he supposed she was suffering a
nervous breakdown and did not ask
her who had done it. Other members
of the family being too excited. the
girl found a doctors number herself
Foley said. He also declared that
Kathleen exclaimed:
Poor Mrs. Whitcomb. She is over
there all alone and they will kill her.
Foley said positively that Kathleen
told him the rear door of the Whit
comb home stood open when she came
out and ran to her own house.
StrycIninc, Say Doctors.
DR.. w. L. Warmer. who was the
first physician called, said he at first
believed that the girl was suffering
from nervous trouble and gave her
:wo tablets to quiet her. When she
began to suffer commissions, he said
ne began to think she had been poi
soned.
II saw she was very low. and ad-
sised them to call in another doc
or" said he. "Dr. c. B. Van Horn