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Show POISONING OF I YOUNG UN DEEP MYSTERY j Girl Tells Mother Death Potion Was Forced Down Throat TOPEKA. Kan.. Feb. 19. Pollco Investigation today of tho mysterious i death last night of Miss Katherine i Foley, who staKum-cd home from a neighbor's house and died ufter telling tell-ing her mother a man and a woman had forced poison down her throat, developed that she had been watched by a man and a woman on the street. 1 Miss Katherine Ixmgacrc saw the couple while she was talking with Miss Foley last night, she said. CALLED AS WITH ESS. Miss Foley was summoned yoster- day as a witness against George j Kruse in his trial at Wichita on a , hargo of having killed his third wife . by choking her to death. Miss Foley, I believing him unmarried. formerly bad been friendly with Kruso, her I father said, and received a letter last nlKht addressed In Kruse's handwrlt- ' lng, the father said. He said Kruse had' tried to persuade the girl to leave ' Topeka rather than testify against j him. MURDER OR SUICIDE. We are working on two theorlrs 1 murder or suicide," Chief of J'olloo i..ii said. "There u evidence which might be considered to point, both ways." An autopsy was performed and the ; contents of the stomach were sent to the University of Kansas for analysis. The conditions under which the girl, died, however. Coroner Clark luld j leaves no doubt about poison being' the causo- He said there wero no m.uks on the girl's throat to Indicate there- had been a struggle Officers telephoned to tho Wichita police department de-partment today to havo Gcorgo Kruso I held. CITUM'S EVIDENCE. Miss Catherine Lougaker, chum of MLss Foley, said the girl had made two "straugo:' remarks a short time before ne was "I'll meet you in the happy land." the other, "Row would ou like! inv job of checking sand'.'" Miss Stole 1 as employed in sand oompab) of-1 'f.ee. I |