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Show 1yste?jou aid comes to alleged poisoner Rich Bcstcn Han Furnishes Bail to Kursc Kidstoa; Mystery Grows peeper. I BOSTON, .April 24. Christina Kld-ston, Kld-ston, the pretty trained nurse accused of attempting to poison Mrs. Cynthia Perkins, a rich Invalid of Blue Hill avenue, has been held in $3000 bail to the grand Jury. Bail was furnished by a resident of the Back Bay, so well kaown In Boston Bos-ton and throughout the country that the mere mention of his business would be sufficient to identify him. He declared de-clared that he did not know the prisoner pris-oner and had no interest in her beyond a belief in her innocence and the natural nat-ural sympathy aroused by that belief. The case is a strange one, and it is not believed that the police have solved It by any means. Miss Kidston, the accused nurse, had been caring for Mrs. Perkins for come time past and was so well thought of by. the wealthy invalid that a codicil had been attached to her will by whkJjMiss Kidston was to receive $2000 on the death of Mrs. Perkins. At first the police worked upon the theory that this . codicil had been revoked and that Mies Kidston might have administered the poison through revenge. It has since been learned, however, that the codicil was never revoked. The strongest bit of evidence fn favor of Miss Kidston was that which showed that she had drunk of the same cup which had poisoned Mrs. J?erkins, and had, in fact, swallowed more of the Qolsoned coffee than Mrs. Perkins. She was made very ill by the arsenic in the coffee and was for a time in greater danger than Mrs. Perkins. The appearance- in the case of a rich resident of the Back Bay has aroused great interest here. The man in question ques-tion is very rich, the head of a famous manufacturing concern and a leading clubman and society, man. He has furnished bail for Miss Kidston from the first, although maintaining that he does not know her or her family. He declares that he has simply taken a great interest in the girl, believing the charge against her to be utterly without with-out foundation. |