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Show WOMEN MAKE CHARGES, BUT FAIL TO EXPLAIN SAN FKANCISCO, Feb. H. Detectives aro searching for Pierre I-afon, a Frenchman, French-man, who Is said to havo been educated for the ministry, but more recently has been studying medinlno In the College of Phvslclana and Surgeons in this city, and for" whom a warrant was sworn out yesterday yes-terday by Harah B. Armstrong, graduate of a Chicago medical college, -charging him with attempting to poison her and Mrs. Gertrude Coffman, formerly of Portland. Port-land. Or. La fon is rharged with attempting tho life of the two women by means of iodldo of arsenic, which. It Is alleged, they detected de-tected lilm In tho act of placing In a teapot on December 4 of last year: No very clear explanation has been made of the delay In taking action ngaust tho Frenchman. i Lnfon. It is said, Is a graduate of t'o Univorsitv of France who became a clergyman cler-gyman and Is alleged to havo occupied pulpits In tho vicinity of New Orleans. T.Irs Coffman was In partnership with Lnfon in a lodging house hero and acted as hi3 housekeeper. Lnfon has not been seen since yesterday morning. |