Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1916 — CHICAGO SCHOOL GIRL WAS POISONED [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO SCHOOL GIRL WAS POISONED

Body of Miss Marion Frances Lambert In Clump of Bushes In Chicago Mystifies Police.

One murder mystery after another shocks Chicago and environs and the finding of the body Thursday of Miss Marion Frances Lambert, an 18-year-old school girl, in the woods of the Harold F. McCormick estate in Lake Forest was one of the most shocking of recent events. The body was taken in charge by Coroner John L. Taylor and an autopsy disclosed that the girl had been poisoned. Near her were her school books. It is believed that she was forced to take the poison. Detectives called in the case believe that a man was with hen when the poison was taken but whether she took or was forced to take it is not known. Many of her school acquaintances were called to testify but no important disclosures were made.. .I—■ When discovered, the body was frozen stiff. In the girl’s hair and in one hand was a powdery substance, which is thought to have been a poison obtained from the chemical laboratory of the school. Footprints of a man paralleled those of the dead girl as she wandered in the woods before she lay down to die. Detectives have started an investigation to find the man whose shoe fits the prints in the snow.