The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-05-31
MRS. BLACKBURN DIES;
Her HUSBAND IS HELD
Funeral Services of Local Girl TO
Be Held Sunday Afternoon at
Twin Falls - Post -Mortem Per-
formed This Afternoon.

Three weeks to the day from the
time she took a fatal dose OF poi
soning, Mrs. Cecil Hurst Black
burn, aged 10, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. r. Hurst, residing north OF
here. died shortly after 10 o'clock
this morning at the county general
hospital. where she has waged
vain fight TO overcome the ravages
OF bichloride OF mercury, taken, II
is said, ON the advice OF her hus-
band and in the belief that il was
calomel.
Her boy husband, Melvin Black
burn, also OF this place and aged 49,
who ras been held in the county jail
ever since his young wife was taken
sick, will be charged with her death
tomorrow, according TO Prosecuting
Attorney ]. w. Taylor in a state
ment to The Record late yesterday
afternoon.
1T is probable" said the prose-
cutor. that Blackburn will be
charged with second degree murder,
although / may make it first de-
gree"
Meanwhile plans are progressing
for the funeral services of the young
bride and mother, upon whose body
a post-mortem examination was con-
Quoted this afternoon at the Twin
Falls funeral parlors of p. j. Gross
man, county coroner. The autopsy
was performed to establish beyond
doubt the fact that death resulted
from bichloride poisoning. DR.. ID.
l.. Alexander presided at the post
norton with Drs. F. A. Dwight, the
girls physician, George Scott and
IL. w. Clouchek assisting. Chemist
E. r. Dooley took charge of the spe-
cimens and the examination was
witnessed by ]. ID. Barnhart, chair
man of the board of county commits
sioners.
When asked regarding funeral
services, w. II. Hurst, father OF the
girl stated they would be held from
the Grossman chapel, Twin Falls
Sunday afternoon at o'clock with
interment In the Twin Falls ceme-
terry. The Rev. E. l.. White, pastor
of the Methodist church of the lat
ter city, will preach the funeral SER
mon.
Blackburn is said to signed a writ
ten confession which is now in the
hands OF authorities, that medicine,
presumably calomel, was procured
with the intent of causing an abor-
ton; that several persons were con-
suited, and that one person, not
doctor, agreed TO supply the wanted
drug for $40; and that it was sup
piled: that directions were given Tor
its use, and that he blackburn
sent IL by mail to his wife who was
then living with her parents.
This was three weeks ago today.
The girl took the medicine ana
became violently I'll. The next day
DIR. F. A. Dwight of this place was
summoned. The patient was imme-
diately taken to the county general
hospftal, her case was diagnosed as
poisoning and a chemical examina-
ton by E. r. Dooley revealed the
fact that the powders were bichloride
of mercury. or corrosive sublimate
The medicine is said to have
caused the desired effect, and young
was thereupon arrested
and charged with a crime Now that
his wife has died he will also be
with having caused her
death.
The Blackburns are the parents
OF a child born last autumn previous
TO their marriage. The father was
charged by Cecil Hurst with a stat
utory crime. and in his trial during
December the jury disagreed. Then
he married the girl and they lived