KEPT POISON MANY YEARS. Aged Woman Suicided in Iowa With Strychnine Bought in Salt Lake Quarter of a Century Ago. (Sundays Pall.) Postmaster Thomas cslcrdiy received re-ceived an nnonnious communication from Shoiinmlonh, la. Ill which he Is asked to locate a slater and niece nt Mrs Maggie Croft, nn aged widow who committed suicide In Shen indoiili on Washington' lllrthday, by sivallow-Inp sivallow-Inp n quuntlt of ntochnlne that she purchased while living heie u quarter of a ccnturv ago, the bottlo containing tho poison still bearing an old and disfigured label of The .Ion a Co-opei-atlvo Mercantile Institution, Ding Dept . bait Lnko City, Utah " AlthoUKh the deid woman made a will bequeathing her money and prop, orty, some of the latter supposedly here, lo a resident of Shnnnudoji, the communication In effect Is that Mis Croft's relatives, v hose names aro not known, hut who ale thought to bo heie, nie entitled to a shnre of the legacy. Iho letter concludes with the leciuest that Postmaster Thomas put forth his effoits iu locutlng the missing sister und niece. With the loiter nrc two editions of the Shenandoah Sentinel containing accounts of tho HUlcide According to them, the dead woman, who was near! Itireo scoio and ion had spoilt ten years of liet life lu an Insane asylum In Iowa hever.il duys previous to her death she contiacted a serious case of erysipelas, that added to hoi other troubles, prompted her to resort lo the poison Por somo months previous lo her death, .Mm Croft lived In tho house of Mis Lovlna Mills at Maplo street and Thomas iivenue, 111 the little Iowa hamlet. Among her most Intlin He fiends were J. V. Itedileld and his wlf to whom tho dnd woman bequeathed hoi piopert Dining bei long Illness and to the Inst, Mrs. Itedileld wus constantly con-stantly al the sldo of tho suicide It was lu tho evening while Mrs lied. field was preparing q meal for the In- valid Hint Mm Ciolt committed Ihe rash act , ... 'Ihe stor nf the dead woman h llfo leids slianger thuli llcllon Horn March 7, 1R3.I. tn blockholm Sweden, nf uristocratlo pirent". Mrs. Ctoft bad every opponunll of becoming acquainted ac-quainted with i milt etiquette The rumlly meeting rev uses and Ihe girl being too proud to remnln In Sweden, she enmo to this country In lSul and for a tlmo was emploed In Iho family of the Moyui of Now oik city. A abort time later she went to ban Pianclsco. where she fell In love with and married nn English salloi named Thomas Croft After n brief sojourn longer In the cit by the golden gate the couple moved lo Silt Lai e. It wus while hcio that Mrs Ctoft bought tho poison which she treasured till the duy of death Aftei several ventures lu the mining towns of Utah Mi. Croft, desirous of locating In a mote temperate tem-perate climate, with his wife went to Shenandoah. A eur later tho husband died and the wife was so ptostrated with gilcf that sho lost her i casein und was sent lo an asylum from which she wus latei sent to the hospital foi Incurables nt Davenport, la After ten years she wns leleased through the Instrumentality In-strumentality of lledfield and Ills wire, who Hlnte then have practlwiily been taking care of the aged widow According tn the Shenandoah pnpets Mrs Crift owned considerable propel prop-el ty In the north of Shenandoah as nhe did two lots here It was from the so piopcrtles that she supported herself Tho sister and niece of the dead woman wo-man nio suppuaed to be members of the Mormon church. This Is what es-tianged es-tianged the relatives. Tho will of thu dead woiunti wns admitted ad-mitted to prohdto several weeks ago It Is short and concise, to ullng "1 give and bequeath tn in ft lend, J, P Itedileld of Shenandoah, la , all of my property real personal und mixed " Dated July 21, 1901, blgned Magglo Cinft and witnessed by II I, Pnskctt nnd John Montzner.