Show alleged wife murderer sandoval ills dee dec 2 this little town is in the throes of a sensation the man about whom the stor in is raging is dr george IL II rice one of the th e most prominent physicians of marion county mrs rice wife of dr george IL rice died last august and long continued rumors culminated today in the exhumation of the body at the instigation of the metropolitan insurance company of new york in which she was insured in her husbands favor for she was the sister of his first wife who died eight years ago whose life was insured for dr rice is a medical examiner of the metropolitan company here the company company sent its agents to investigate the death and ordered the body exhumed fumed dr rice was greatly opposed but finally consented and the body was exhumed and portions of the internal organs taken out and sent to st louis for examination the metropolitan ro company made the e charge I 1 large that arsenic had been discovered |