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Show NO POISON IN j WOMAN'S BODY; State Chemist Makes Analy-1 sis m Connection With Death of Mrs. Woods. - SAIT IjAKE, Jan. 25 No trace of' ony poisons were found In tho stom-ach stom-ach of Mrs Maryetta Woods, wife of uiier H. Woods, found burned to death In her bed In the Pauline apartments apart-ments January 9, according to the results re-sults of an analysis Just completed by Herman Harms, ptate chemist. Minute traces of copper, naturally present In the majority of human organs, wero present, Mr. Harms reported. The chemist. In bts CpnclUSlonSi declares de-clares the death 6t Mrs. Woods was Hot caused by any traceable poisons Mr ll irnis gays, ho found large blls f undigested food, Indicating that tleath occurred very shortly after Mrs. W Is had partaken of a meal. It w.is Indicated thai the food was swallowed swal-lowed whole, the report says, probably prob-ably swallowed under more or less excited ex-cited state Of mind. County Attorn, v MoretOD had the stomach of Mr-Woods Mr-Woods submitted to the state chemist for analysis In an effort to ascertain whether death, which is thought to have preceded incineration. was oauaed by poison. The preliminary bearing of the, hus- band it th" murdered woman began this morning berore t Ity Judge Krd It. Crockett in the city and county , building. Twenty-three witnesses wore sum- moned yeaterday by Aaalstant County Attorney Wallace it Kolly, who will appear with County Attorney Arthur ivu.li iui me Man. rnom.-Ls Hamage will ropresent Mr Woods. The testimony introduced by tho state will be virtually the same as that offered in the lniiuest over Mrs Woods' body. Assistant County Attorney Attor-ney Wallace It. Koiiy supi yesterday. Several additional witnesses have been suopoennod .,nd others whose t,.ti-mony t,.ti-mony proved unimportant at the ln-quf.st ln-quf.st will not bo called, he salcL Mrs. E. J. Calllster of 1I South Sixth Last slreel :-;lld yesterday that she saw two men. one of them Wearing a brown overcoat, In -front of the Paulina apartments al the time of the fire She says thai she talked to them about tho crime, but both were reticent to discuss It and lator left the sceno me of the men carried a Kunnysack, she wud. Mr Ramage yesterday directed direct-ed attention lo the etory told by Noods, who .ii.I that two men, one tall and the ..ther short, had entered his apatrment and, alter locking him In tho bathroom, burned his wife to death on tho bed. |