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Show Hi MING I III n -ME I County Attorney Jol P. Lyon H Says Matter Will Be Probed fjH lo Bottom. 11 WANTS TO KNOW WHO IS BOUGHT THE ARSENIC WM Mother of Attorney Edler Makes ! a S tatem en t ; P ro bably N o Newly developed and sensational dls- t'll closures in the mysterious poisoning case EjH of Frank S. Kaiser and his wife, Minnie, Ul in their home at .IIS Elizabeth street, r'l who died last Sunday, after having cntcn rilifl dumplings which were mado with ?o- Pl called baking powder that Mrs. Knlser had borrowed from Mrs. Johanna Edler, f-'l n neighbor living in the same house, have impelled County Attorney Job P. Lyon to declare that he will probe the mystery li-ll lo the bottom. I'il "In view of the fact that it already has r been ascertained by chemical nnalysii f-l that the direct cause of the Kulsers' , deaths was arsenic. I do not think liiat i( there ;s any legal reason lor holding ar Ivl inijuust," said County Attorney Lyou jj ;H Thursday night, "but this does net Indl- HH cate that the authorities intend to drop i! Il the case. Xot by any means. We ar i H conducting a strict investigation, and shall never stop until we learn absolutely Ju; !' who the person was that placed that 111- l sonic in the baking powder can, and KH Justice of the Pence and Acting Coroner i-'H Stanley Hanks, after a thorough and KH painstaking investigation covorlng four SttH days, has recommended that the suspi- c HIh clous circumstances In the case warrant I ''H the holding of an Inquest. k Dr. A. A. ICnlser. nnd another brother n 'H of tho dend nmn are expected to arrive i H from Kansas City, Mo., at any hour, and tf'-H if they demand an Inquest it will be so r ordered. Startling developments hi the case con- ). IH vlnce the authorities at work on Ihc mys- ' Hal tcry that foul play has been done. jj Salient Facts. ' After an examination of all persons j1 known to have any knowledge of tho.c.ise. h1 HH the authorities have arrived at the fol- l.ilH lowing salient facts, all of which nre sub- stantlated by Mrs. Johanna Edler, 72 '-H years of ae. who is the mother of An- gust IScrnndotte Edler, a former attor- ney of this city, and once clerk of the . 'H state supreme court, who. with his wife, e is now living in Escondldo. Cal. ' jH First Last June, before A. B. Edler i 'H and bis wife started for California, llu-y I tried to persuade Mrs. Johanna Edler to I sell the property at :MS Elizabeth street, which is iu her name. Various deals f were pending, from ?1200 to 1000 for i the place. j . jH . Second During a trip to L.03 Angele.". J Edler met a man whose name was MeCul- iH len, according to Mrs. Johanna Edk-r 'H McCullen told Edler that he was a phy- 'H steal instructor, and thai he was looking J for a good place to invest his money in f iH a gvmnaslum to sive physical training to t' business men. Edler suggested that Salt ' Lake City was a good place for such a . business, and persuaded McCullcn to nc- , fl company him to this city. On arriving 1 fl here. McCullen went out lo Killer's home and roomed there. Suddenly, he disap- B penrcd. His disappearance caused much JH comment in the neighborhood, as it was given nut by tile Edlers that McCullen had ?onc away quietly, without loaving ' a trace of his destination or stating the S'.H reason for his abrupt departure. McCul- f, ion loft hie liltnl.- dn1 unit c-nano ml.-.! M with all of his belongings and personal effects, according to Mrs. Johanna EdJer. jj IH Can of Baking Powder. j Third Eight days after MeCullen's t ,H . disappearance, A. B. Edler and his wife M left Salt Luke Cfty for California. Be- fore leaving. Mrs. Johanna Edlers H daughter-in-law brought in all of her H kitchen and pun try things Into the aged H woman's little room In the house, and said. among other things: "Xow, ,B mamma, here's a can of baking powder H that I've never used. You cun use It H after we urc gone. It Is good for bak- .H Fourth Mrs. Johanna Edler finally IB mortgaged her property for SS0O and sent 'NlH the money to her son. The mortgage I YM was made due iu three years, and run VtHH al S per cent. l'H Fifth When A. B. Edler left for Call- k fornla he took with him the trunk and Jj H suit cases which McCullen Is alleged to ' f fM have left behind when ho suddenly dls- if H appeared. N'ot only did Edler take thr K IVH suit case and the trunk, but he also ! took everything that belonged 10 Mc- f "HF Cullen. 1 Htf,H Sixth McCullen has never been heard 4 from since his disappearance. 1 " WjM Seventh Mrs. Johanna Edler, instead : KH of using the contents of the baking H powder can. set the can in her little box j IH cupboard. The daughter-in-law had been C JH accustomed to bake her own bread, but i IH she hud never used any of the powder H in this particular can, which was full h 'H of arsenic. A. B. Edler's wife had used ' H a range for cooking nnd baking.' Mrs. !i H Johanna Edler. the mother-in-law, did f H not go on using this range. Instead. H she bought a small gasolino stove, so ij H she did no baking, and therefore had no ' H use for the baking powder. H raisers Move in. ) H . Eighth After the Edlers went to Call- ! ( foriun last June, the can of powder stood H unused on the inoiher-in-lnw's shelf. 1 H Then Frank S. Kaiser and his wife. Mill- IH uie. moved Into the other part of the I IH house. Mrs. ICdler was rather feebly ,1 I and afflicted with the complalnUs common : to aged people. Mrs. Kaiser would often . come into Mrs. Edler's room and they I ,H would talk together. About two week: 'H before the poisoning of the Kaisers. Mrs. Edler gave the luiklug powder cjin to IH Mrs. Kaiser, saying thut sho had no usi ... H for II. Mrs. Knlser put the supposed 'M baking powder Into her dumplings, last ; - H Sunday, and, as a consequence, she and , H her husband died from arsenic poisoning. f t'H Xiulh When asked by the coionei 1 where she got the can of arsenical "bak 1 Ing powder." .Mrs. Johanna Edler replieii , il that her daughler-lu-law had given it H to 1 IH Such nre the tangible facts that staul I H out in this peculiar mystery. ; M When seen at her home. :ilS Ellr.abotl I , street. Thursday night. Mrs. Johanna Ed 1 'IH lor said In part: "My daughtcr-in-hnN ' jH gave that cun of baking powder to nit I t yH before she nnd my son went lo California j H Sho told me that I could use it in bak , H lug. I don't know where she got the j H can of powder. I doiri think she knew ', iH what It contained. ! jH "My i-on was a lawyer. biU he hadn't ! 'H been doing very well here so he deter- ; H mined to settle In California. We talked lH it all over. My son nut! his wife were to 1 . M go to California and go to ranching thcro. 1 ' H J was to mortgage the property and scud i H the money to them, and they were to pay i.f H for their land with the money. I was to U rH come down there and live with them. 't'lH Only last Friday. August 20. I received a t ! H letter from my son, who Is in Escoudido. ' ,H in which he suld that ho was going to 1 H I.os Angeles to buy u horse and wagon ' and some chickens. I mortRnged the H property and sent the VS00, which I re- 'H Continued on Paac Two. H SENSATION COMING IN KAISER CASE Continued from Pago One. eeived from Russell L. Tracy, to mv son. "I never had any trouble with my daughter-in-law. Wo lived happily together. to-gether. "Several months ago my son mot a man n?m,cd. McCullen. I think, in Los Angele. AlcCu Ion was a physical director, and be told Bernadotte that' he was looking for a place to Invest his money nnd start Into business. My son brought him hero, and be roomed in our house. One day he left, without anylng anything. My son was down town on business, and his wife was attending a funeral, she told me McCullen Just dropped out of sight, and no word has been received of from case- C" 110 'ri hlS trl,"k und suU "Eight dnys after McCnllen disappeared, disap-peared, my son and daughter-in-law went to Los Angeles, taking with them Mc-cullen Mc-cullen s trunk and suit cases and everything every-thing that belonged to McCullcn. Mi-son Mi-son claimed thnt McCullen owed him $75 nnd that he had tnken his suit cases, so bj tak ilg McCullen's things away, too. iii ,,on 1 know anything about thnt inking powder except that' my dnughter-In-law gave It to me when she wont a wnv and told me to use It T did not know 11 was arnenlr. i never used It. I didn't use my daughter-in-law's range. I used a gasoline stove, so I never baked." |