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Show had been sleeping In the bed f "r several nights, the chambermaid In arranging tho hed during the day had never seen the i:rsc. Effort to locate tbo owner of the ruin?? have Ix-rn ineffectual. Filling that I hey are. belnc baffled baf-fled In their efforts to secure evidence evi-dence nf a convicting nature against Lloyd, tho jiolice 1 cldfd today thru they would dmp the ease and allow the man to go. ; LLOYD WILLI BE fiiVEN FREEDOM Rccause of an unexpected collar of tho card house ol evidence which the police had been building about Benjamin F. Lloyd, the alleged poisoner pois-oner of three fallen women, the man will doubtless be released fmm custody cus-tody this afiennwm and hU bond of $75. which has kept hlra from being under lock and Key, returned. The police, once so certain of the man's guilt, now state that there Is not BufBelont evid-ncc against Lloyd to warrant ecn a preliminary hearing The cane against Lloyd Is In many respects a pi-CJllnr ine. Lloyd visited visit-ed the apartments of three different, demimondes. In each of the places he purchased a bottle of beer and after drinking the berernge the women became violently ill. These three Incidents In-cidents took place on three different nights. In each easy Lloyd disappeared disap-peared while the woman was either unconscious or in convulsions In each Incident, according to the states ment of the women, money was found to 4e missing from the ron wlnu the tenant recovered from her attack of Illness. i Dr. William J. Browning, who treat- j ed two of the women, stated to the police that their Illnes3 was undoubt- j Jly due to some form of opium poisoning. pois-oning. He statea that It was only hy , the most heroic treatment that he i s:g able to save the life of one of the j women. Each of the women described de-scribed the same man as her supposed poisoner, and this description answered ans-wered that of Lloyd, whom the police found had a room rented at a rooming room-ing house on lower Twenty fifth -Mteet. The man had an appointment appoint-ment to meet another woman at a certain hour of the night. Two detectives de-tectives tilled this appointment in place of the woman and Lloyd was arrested ar-rested alter a band-to-hand battle with the two ollicerx At the iollee station the prisoner claimed that be thought the officers were hold-up men and It was for this reaaon that he offered resistance when they attempted to arrest ar-rest him. When Lloyd was Hearched a small bottle of dark fluid nJS found in one of his pockets and this was seized by the police as a piece of valuable evidence against the man. IV, Browning, while not able to state pos'-tively pos'-tively as to the contents of the bottle, I pave it as his opinion that the bottle j contained a preparation of laudanum' llnd the s'.trmlse of tho physlrlnn proved correct, the case aga.nst Lloyd would have been a most convincing one. It would also have proven tho man to be u crook of the most bungling bung-ling type for In each Instance where he drank beer with his supposed victim vic-tim he displayed the bottle before the woman's eyes and the bottle wat one which when once seen would not bo forgotten The cork of the bottle was wrapped with paper After L'oyd was aiTC-sted 'he three women who had been poisoned were brought to the station and ail three of them Identified the prisoner as the supposed poisoner. The women also very readily identified the bottle as .the one which they had seen in tho man's possession at the time of his Isit to their apartments i When arrested Uoyd h.d aloiit $1o'o In cash on his person and claimed claim-ed that he was a mining man from Wyoming The man wa.s well dressed and had the appearance of being a sporting man or a ninn of the street. He would nt be looked upon by any one as a crook, at least not as one of the petty crooks with which the police do most of their dealing. One of the first Investigations which the police made was to de- 1 termlne if Lloyd's story of the bottlo of fluid wa6 a true one. The man bad fold the police that the bottlo contained merely an antiseptic preparation pre-paration and that he had purchased I it from a local druggist This drug- J gist verified Lloyd's story and stat- I ed that the only poisonous Ingredl- ; ent In the fluid was sulphide of zinc, j but that the bottle did not contain j enough of this poison to prove dan-' gerous even if the whole contents of ' the bottle should be taken Internally. Inter-nally. This started the collapse of evidence, evi-dence, but the possibility of securing n conviction of Lloyd was made doubly doub-ly uncertain by tho statements of the three women The poilco say that i. ne of tho victims could testify that the had seen the rnon place anything !n the beer which he offered her to drink. Another bit of evidence which the police expecteJ could be used against i Lloyd went glimmering when It was I found that the suspect would not ad- ' mi! the ownership or any know ledge of a woman's purse, containing money, mon-ey, which thev found between the tiiatres-es of the bed in which he t-lept at the rooming honsp. Lloyd vigorously denies that he knew the purso was in the bed, although he |