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Show POISON MAILED 101010 GIRL TWIN FALLS WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO ELLECTS OF BICHLORIDE BICHLOR-IDE OF MERCURY I Dead Girl Had Caused Arrest of Murder Suspect i'n 1922 On Statutory Charge Twin Falls, Ida. Foison murder mystery which bids fair to rival the celebrated Southard case culminated here when Mrs. Cecil Hurst Blackburn, Black-burn, wife of Melvin Blackburn of Filer, died at the Twin Falls general hospital Thursday morning, as a result re-sult of taking a dose of sixty-two grains of bichloride of mercury three weeks ago. The medichine was received re-ceived through the mails. Her husband, from whom she was separated, admits that he sent her medicine through the mails, but says that it was only calomel. He has j been injail ever since the poisoning j was reported to the officers, charged with contributing to an abortion. He denied persistently since his arrest that he had any criminal intent in sending the medicine; denies that he sent poison and declines to disclose the person from whom he received the alleged calomel. Early in the fall of 1922, Blackburn was arrested on complaint of Cecil Hurst the victim of the poisoning. Shortly afterwards, Blackburn married mar-ried the girl and the charge was stricken from the court docket, though the case has never been formally for-mally dismissed. After living with his wife a short time, it is said that they separated and have not lived together regularly since. It is reported re-ported that Blackburn has made a number of statements relative to his reason for sending his wife the calomel. |