Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-17 | Page 3 | Mrs. Cynthia Buffum is Placed on Trial

MRS. CYNTHIA BUFFUM IS PLACED ON TRIAL LITTLK VALLEY. N Y. Feb. 16. Mrs. Cytlila Buffum was placed on trial for murder hero today. The Indictment charges her with having killed her husband. hus-band. Willis Buffum. -by feeding him a slow-acting poison. Buffum was taken 111 July 4 and died August His body was exmimea uciooer j auu an examination examina-tion disclosed the nature of the poison used. A won, Norrls, died In May. and a daughter, Laura, died a few weeks ago from the same cause. All the other members of the family became mysteriously mysteri-ously 111, xccpi Mrs. Buffum, but recovered. re-covered. Mrs. Buffum made a confession two months ago of a plot looking to the destruction of her husband and her children. She Implicated Ernest Fralim, a young farmer, who will bo placed on trial la tor.