Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-28 | Page 10 | Admits Sending Poisoned Candy

ADMITS SENDING POISONED CANDY Mother of Eight Children Killed By Mistake of Woman Plotter CHILTON. Wis., Nov 2S Miss Anna An-na Lentz, who lives on a farm near 'hero, late Monday confessed that she j had mailed the poisoned candy which caused the death of Mrs . Frank ISohnelder, a mother of eight children, ! last Tuesday. She will be arraigned I today on a charge of murder. CLEARED BY INSPECTOR The confession was made and signed sign-ed before Federal Postal Inspector Niles of Fon du Lac. She said she had purchased the poison for the purpose pur-pose of sending poisoned candy to Mrs Henry Schneider, a sister-in-law of the dead woman, but addressed the p.u leaps le-aps by mistake to Mrs. Frank Schneider, Schneid-er, DESTROYED EVTDENt I Within a half houi after the death of Mn. Schneider, Miss Lent, appeared appear-ed at the Schneider home and destroyed destroy-ed the evidence consisting of a cand box and wrapper, she Bald. In her confession, she said that the reason the package was intended for Mrs. ; Henry Sehneid'-r was that she Uam-d jher for originating scandal spread in the neighborhood I Miss Lentz was brought Into the ! district attorney's office at noon and for several hours denied having pui-chased pui-chased the poison or of sending the candy, but when she was confronted by people who identified her as the person who bought poison, she finally confessed. oo