Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-26 | Page 2 | Attempted to Poison Peabody

entire family is poisoned at breakfast table but all will recover u ex governor of colorado and hie wife and daughter have narrow escape said to have been threatened with fate of canon colo former governor jamee H peabody his wife and their daughter were poisoned by food eaten at breakfast thursday morning and the daughter miss cora peabody la in a dangerous condition a result the governor and mrs peabody al though quite for several hours recovered sufficiently to devote their attention to the daughter physicians are in attendance upon the boung woman and unless a change for the worse comes they believe she will escape earlous consequences an air of mystery surrounds the af fair enough was gleaned from friends of the family however to show that there Is a belief that an attempt was made to destroy the family by poison an intimate friend of the pear blodys said that several letters had been received by the former governor within the past week or two calling his attention to the manner of the death of former governor ot idaho and threatening him with a similar fate referring to the incident his family went through governor peabody said I 1 do not want to say where I 1 think the responsibility lies until the of the investigations now being made are known t mr peabody was governor of colo rado during the labor troubles at crip pie creek and telluride when troops took possession of the two camps and during which time the independence depot dynamite disaster happened