Show POISON MAILE TO IDAHO GIRL TWIN FALLS WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO OF DE OF MERCURY dead girl had caused ar arrest est of murder suspect hi n 1922 on statutory charge twin rills falls iila ida rolson poison murder mystery which bids fair to rival the celebrated So southard ulhard case culminated here when mrs cecil hurst blackburn wife of melvin blackburn of 0 filer died at the twin falls general hospital thursday morning ns fis a result of 0 taking a dose of 0 sixty two grains of of mercury three weeks ago the medi chine was received through tho the malls mails her husband from rom whom she was separated admits that he sent her medicine through the malls mails but says that it was only calomel ile he has been in jail ever since the poisoning was reported to the officers charged with contributing to an abortion lie ile denied persistently since his arrest that he had any criminal intent in sending the medicine denies that he sent poison and declines to disclose the person from whom he received the alleged calomel early in the tall fall ot of 1922 blackburn was arrested on complaint ot of cecil hurst the victim ot of the poisoning shortly afterwards blackburn married the girl and the charge was stricken from the court docket though the case has never been formally dismissed after living with his wife a short time it Is said that they seri separated rated and have not lived together regularly since it Is reported that blackburn has made a number of statements relative to his reason tor for sending his wife the calo mel |