Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — CHARGED WITH MURDER. [ARTICLE]

CHARGED WITH MURDER.

Mrs. Sarah Shenkenberger, wife of a Frankfort shoe dealer, has been arrested and confined in jail at Frankfort charged with poisorting her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ed Shenkenberger. The Shenkenbcri gers all formerly resided at Oxford, I Benton county, and young Shepk- ’ enburger eloped with the lady who I became his wife and was married. At the outbreak of hostilities with Spain he enlisted in the navy and was on the cruiser Minneapolis at the time his wife died, she having gone to reside with his parents un- ; til her husband's return. The, women are said to have entertained , a mutual hatred of each other, and i before her death the mu rdered i woman made a statement that she ' had been systematically poisoned | by her mother-in-law. The stomach i was analyzed and arsenic in deadly quantities was found; it was also learned that the elder woman had purchased considerable arsenic but a few weeks before her daughter-in-law’s death. She took her arrest coolly and stated that she was innocent of the crime. Editor Marshall of the Republican, sports a handsome new chainless Columbia bicycle, the only one in the city.