Show W WOMAN WOMAN- MA DENIES rm MATE POPLAR BLUFF Mo Dec 18 A Tho Af-Tho Tho word of a a. year 37 37 year lie stood today in refutation of R fe her hUsbands husband 9 contention that Mrs J n JW Edwards administered the which he lie is seriously fr from m po son W D a a. St St. Louis hospital With Mrs Sirs Edwards Edwards' assertion that she Is ls innocent authorities also had the word ord of her husband that KM poisoned him and killed his she te had bad old l son Forest the same af Mrs rS Edwards under questioning d 4 Edwards carried life Insurance aid her two former husbands bd of whom died under mysterious ious rious circumstances as did her daughter Ethel May Padgett 12 Ip 1 view of Edwards' Edwards allegation Sd and the deaths of her daughter and l husbands authorities are considering orias exhumation of the bodies to determine if the they too had hadd b been n poIsoned Her first firt husband d Fred Padgett d died ed October 25 1924 and he her seco sec- sec Kid o end A X Harris Harris- January 1 19 last let daughter Ethel May Padgett Id died dl fed d April 16 1927 Forest her stepson died recently IT oon his death eath Edwards brought suit ait against a confectionery store store i owner er alleging the boy had been told id poisoned ice cream butI but I dropped the action when he became physicians hold slight hope for forIt It his recovery recover Mrs Edwards is at liberty on 1006 bonds o ds |