| Show PENS LOVE NOTE ON DYING DAY Youths Youth's Death Due to i Poison la Ia I Jan Jon 20 O OBy By By The Th Associated press PressA Press A Alove love note nota Charles Erod Elrod Lewellyn Neb Nob wrote rote shortly before ha ho dlo OIoI hero here January 9 In which he ho lo d hi his sweetheart of his waning strength and assured her of his forgiveness If It she had hll contributed to his condition constituted a dramatic finale Wednesday to the tho evidence submitted to 8 a coroner Jur Jury Dear I dont don't foci feel like I will get lIet to give this letter to you J I hops hope you ou or no one eJ els has pOisoned me a I I dreamed ot did But It you have ha I will tor for for- forgive for give O you OU with Ith all my heart El- El Elrod El rod El-rod rod wrote roto to Ved V Veda da hi his year old fiance 19 year The Th coroners coroner's Jury lury ury returned a verdict that Elrod had died from poisoning administered b by a p per per- person per person r son the th jury could not name Reading of ot the letter leller proved a shock to the th girl s who exclaim exclaimed I cant can't stand any more an and appeared to bo be nearing a break break- breakdown breakdown down Previously she had related a 8 story o of a 0 fictitious lover loser cre- cre ere ft a triangle for tor the purpose ot of testing Elrod's love lov for tor her herTh The Idea she he sh said she he gleaned from a a magazine and under ul the name ot of the th fictitious loTer loer she wrote letters letter to Elrod telling ot of great love lov for Miss Through these the letters she ahe ha said she hoped to test Elrod's love for tor her Elrod's note not was w found apparently coti unfinished In a a hotel hot l room wIth his hi bod body After the verdict was returned the girt girl declined to make mak A state mont refusing also al o to 10 comment for Coroner B 0 O Tankersley Roy noy L Pelm P lm count county said he ho would be b occupied with other cases cue In district court for forthe forth the next nert two tw week weeks and woul would not upon his hi future course cours un until til he h had hod time lime to revieW the evi- evi evidence en Tl dence offered at the th Inquest NO POISON POISO FOUND Two physicians who eon conducted a 0 post mortem offered the th principal principal I pal evidence aside from the th better written by Elrod to Miss 88 Belle Belle- Bell feuille They Th y said ald they believed Elrod death deth was due du to some ome form of o poison which might leave have no trace In the th viscera ThIN were no mark of ot violence on the bodY and the appeArance ot of the vital organs the they testified gave II evidence e ot of death from an unnatural ural cause Previously a chemists chemist's report stated no trace of ot poison polson had been found Elrod had been keeping corn com party pany with the th girl firl for toc some time Immediately liter after his death it wai wee that the tho th gIrl had writ writ- tern him letters lett r referring to ftc fie fic rivals She Sh explained that her purpose was wa to arouse his hla Jealousy and Increase his interest In her ner These The letters It was wa evI- evI evIdent evi evident dent from Elrod's Elrod replies began befano to 10 prey upon his mind and taking them seriously he once onee wrote rolo to police advising them that he h fear fear- feared feared ed his Imaginary rival might At- At Attempt attempt at attempt tempt Ills his life and that ot of the gIrl |
