Show SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE ON DOCKET AT EV EVANSTON AlSTON WYO Mrs Annie E Bruce and Her Daughter Annie Bruce Charged With Poiso Poisoning ing James B Bruce Special SIle lal to The Herald Evanston Wyo Aug 29 The regular falIt r rm n of t the district will its session s In this city on Tuesday next On the criminal docket there is a murder trial that will attract considerable Inter Interest Interest est eat Mrs Annie E Bruce and her daugh daughter ter Miss Annie Annl Bruce the latter a young youns woman of 18 or 19 years ears are now m tn inthe the county Jail charged with the murder of the husband and father James U B Bruce All the parties to the affair were formerly residents of Almy a coal cool mining camp near this city For several years past they have resided at Smoot in Star valley alle in this county count where Mr Bruce in company with a Mr Moffett kept a small store In the firm name of Bruce Moffett Mr Iro Bruce also had a small ranch about one and a half miles from the store and home in Smoot Pie Was Poisoned On the morning of March 21 of the present year Mr Bruce and two of his boys bOs went to the ranch to do some work The two toys a ate e their breakfast before starting out but Mr breakfast was carried along Ir In a basket he prefer preferring preferrIng preferring ring to cat eat later on A pie which his wife and daughter had baked on the pre previous previous day da comprised d a part of the lunch Out in the field when Mr Bruce began eating this pl pie he noticed a peculiar taste After Arter eating part of it he was wall seized with pains and convulsions and andied in less than an a hour Before he be became came Us he told Bishop Craney and some other neighbors who had been called to his assistance that he had been poisoned with strychnine in the pie Be Before Before Before fore he lic died he h told his oldest boy to save the remainder of the pie for ex examination by b the authorities The boy took the pit pie home borne and It is said told his met mt her ther out saving it when Ihen she took the pie and ind threw it into the creek At the tl e coroners inquest which followed an autopsy was held and the stomach and other Internal organs were sent under seal to the state stat chemist c at the Laramie university fo a analysis Analysis Showed Strychnine The analysis showed a large quantity of strychnine It is li l said that some fric friction friction friction tion existed in the Bruce family begin beginning beginning ning at a time several years ago when Mr Brute Brue was wall away east on a mission for the Saints church These differences were verp however patched up to toa toa toa a certain extent but rumor places a younger man In the case who still stilt re resides resides resides sides In that of the country All available facts will probably be brought out in the trial next week Mrs Bruce the accused wife was raised In Almy near this city and her maiden name was Clark |