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Show MOTHER OF SIX SUSPECTED IN WEIRD DEATHS Investigators Say She May-Have May-Have Fed Poison to Family. I TRACE OTHER CLUES Gas Stove Examined and Tested For Deadly Fumes. ; i LANCASTER, O , Nov. 24. (By The I Associated Press ) Lancaster people 1 idaj sere looking to Columbus for the n'M scene In tho dr-ath of thc Henderson family hro. Whether lr-ln lr-ln ll nderson, his wife and their four :. hlldren died of poisoning or were as- Iphyxiated by fumes from u gas stove, '.v.in expected to be disclosed by the results r.f a series of Investigations under way at Columbus today. oiu;ans EXAMINED. Kxamlnatlon of the V'itaJ organs of (Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, analysis of r ii.und on the Henderson table for the Tuesday evening meul. and an ln- t i -Mention of a stove used In tho Henderson living room, were tho ac-. ac-. upon which the future plans of lo il officials hinged today HPheareh work conducted In Columbus Colum-bus maj not be announced before to- ' morrow or the first of the week. IOcul officials bay they have found no criminal motive. All Indications Ithey assert, point to poison. If such was the manner of death, having been administered In the food. They declare de-clare that evidence seems to point to Mr Henderson as the perpetrator of the deaths. She is believed to have become mentally unbalanced brooding over Ills, having consulted physicians Jlu various cities. FOOD WAS FRESH In disposing of theories that the d'.iths might havo been caused by loutslders officials point out that food - aten by thc family Tuesday night was not that which had bcon ln tlie houso for some time, but was pur-chased pur-chased by Henderson early ln the evening eve-ning on advice of a physician that Done of t lit? prolslons remaining In the home be used. If poison was 1 pluced ln It. it must have been done while it was being prepared, it was satd Funeral services for the family were to held today. |