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Show I County Attorney Lyon Declines fo Disclose Contents of Edlcr's Letter. UAKKY McCORD XOT VET 13 BEX LOCATED Arsenic Thought to Have Been Purchased Outside of Salt Lake. Comity Attorney Job P. Lyon, In charge of the officlul Investigation of the niys-tnry niys-tnry surrounding tlic deaths of Frank Kaiser and Ills wife, Minnie, who died August 0. from arHonlc taken from a i an given to Mrs. Kaiser by Mrs. Johanna Jo-hanna Kdlcr, an aged woman living In the same house at 3 IS Elizabeth struct, iitcilnes to disclose the contents oi a L iter that ho received four days ago fiom AugiiBt JSornndottc lidlor, a former attorney of Salt Lake City, now living on a ranch at Kscondldo, Cal. It Is understood I hat In this letter i:dlc-r attempts to explain where he se-riircd se-riircd the ten and one-half ounces of j'lirr- nrccnlous onU1. which his wife gave to her mother-in-law in a baking powder itn before Edlor and his wife went to .southern California. On good authority, It Is stated that IMIcr tells in this letter where he got the arsenic, and for what purpose he J.tpt It In his possession. Edler. It is said, states that ho secured the arsenic from some point outside of Salt Lake City. County Attorney Job P. Lyon detailed de-tailed a representative of his ofllco to go to this place with the object of vcrl-ivlnsr vcrl-ivlnsr toiler's explanation concerning the I arsenic. Where Is McCord? Fp lo date, no trace has been found of Ilarrv McCord. the. young man iio net Edlor during a trip by the latter lo Los Angeles, and accompanied the lawyer to this' city. It is known, so far, that Mi Cord rented a studio In the Tomploton 1 i-k, Monday, April 10. and fitted It up a a phvslcal culturn Institute, as ha' had been In that business tii Los Angeles tor four vcars previous to coming here. McCord is said by his friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances to have had from 2000 to SJ5"0. On Tuesday. April 20. McCord suddenly disappeared, apparently without with-out saving good-byo to any one ho know here, and without Intimating beforehand that ho meant to leave this city and give up his physical culture business In the Templetou block. McCord left all of his personal belongings, belong-ings, a trunk and Iwo suit cases in Ed-Jrr's Ed-Jrr's house when he dropped out of sight. The Edlers told the neighbors that McCord Mc-Cord had gono to Los Angeles. But In-rpdrles In-rpdrles In Los Angeles. San Francisco and other places where he was known, failed to disclose his whereabouts. McCord did not leave any forwarding address for bis mall at the Salt Lake City postoffice. Shortly after McCord disappeared, the Ivllers moved to California, taking with them all of their household effects, besides be-sides McCord's trunk, suit cases, and ilothlng. A. 1!. Edlcr told tho neighbors that McCord had taken the former's suit case, and that the physical instructor owed liim 7n on a board bill. McCord lived at Edler's house only two weeks. Mrs. Johanna Edler said that her daughter-in-law, before golncr to California, Califor-nia, came to her and gave her a can of supposed baking powder, with the admonition admo-nition that the aged woman should use It Jn her cooking. Did Not Bako Own Bread. Mrs. Johanna Edler. instead of using tho range, bought a little gasoline stove, and did not bako her own bread. When j-ho made pancakes she used soda. Instead In-stead of tho supposed baking powder. Shortly after the Edler.s left, the Kaisers Kais-ers moved Into the house, but Mrs. Johanna Jo-hanna Edlcr remained In her little room on one side. The olil woman was afflicted with numerous nu-merous complaints common to aged people, peo-ple, and Mrs. Kaleer would often come in from her sldo of the house to Mrs. Udlcr'.s room, and they would talk together. to-gether. Mrs. Kaiser sympathized with the old woman and tried to cheer her loneliness. One day, about two weeks before be-fore the tragedy. Mrs. Edler gave Mrs. Kaiser tho can of supposed baking powder. pow-der. Sunday, August ""ft. Mrs. Kaiser uyod about two teaspoonfuls of tho powder pow-der in making dumplings ror the afternoon after-noon meal, and she and her husband died that day as a result of arsenic poison. " State Chemist Herman Harms analyzed t.i contents of tho baking powder can and pronounced It to bo ten and one-half ounces of commercially pure arsonlous tIdc, commonly known as white arsenic. |