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Show NURSE HELD FOR CRIME. In tha big, red Jail at llarnatabte, Maaa., Jane Tappan slta all day In her cell, aa calm and placid aud ap- .'ANH TAPPAN. parently unmoved as If aba were spending spend-ing pleasure holidays at the quaint old town by the sea Instead of being a prla-oner prla-oner arrusrd of a criimi so deep and black It has low parallels In history. The only thing thut breaks the monotony monot-ony Is visits from her lnwyer. Catnumet, which waa the scene ot, the crime of which Mlaa Tappan Is so-cuaed, so-cuaed, is one of the nlost plclureaqua little summer villages on the const ot Huzr.ard'e Huy. Talking of her the other duy, one of tier neighbors said: Under a rhargo of murdering Mr a. Mary Ulbbs by poisoning she waa arrested ar-rested at AuihiTHt, N. II., and after appearing In the police court at Nashua, Nash-ua, N. II., where she- protested her Innocence, ahe decided lo return to Massachusetts without requisition papers pa-pers Mlas Tappan nursed four members of tbe Davis family at Cataumct, Mass., last summer, and all four died. Her arrest followed a report made by I'nif. Wood, an analytical chemlat. who examined the atomuchs of two of tbe supposed victims, that be found trarea of poison. Hie persona nurae.il by Mlaa Tappan whose lllneaa proved fatal were Mr. aud Mrs. Alden I. Davis, Da-vis, of Cataumct, and tbelr daughters, Mrs. Henry tiordon ot- Chicago snd Mrs. Ulbhs of t'lituuinet. Tbe formal charge against .Mlaa Tuppun Is baaed ou the Inat named case. |