Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1892 — A PITTSBURG SENSATION. [ARTICLE]

A PITTSBURG SENSATION.

Superintendent Weir, of the Police, Pol--sorted by Unknown Enemies. It has just leaked out that Gamble Weir, superintendent of the Pittsburg police, who died suddenly three months ago, was poisoned. At the time of his death his friends had suspicions of foul play, but they kept the matter secret, in the hope that some clew might be discovered that would lead to the discovery of the murderer. So far, however, the work of ferreting out the person who committed the crime has been one of difficulty. Whoever bad given the fatal dose had cqyqred their effort to discover them a failure. Superintendent Weir was ailing for weeks before his death. One day he would seem, better, and the’ next he would be seized with terrible pains that baffled his physician's skill. After his death several friends quietly went to Greenwood cemetery, exhumed the body and removed the stomach and spleen, after which the corpse wis returned to the grave- The intestines were submitted to an analytical chemist for examination. His work is hot finished, but it has been found that enough poison had been taken to kill several men The stomach had been literally eaten up with a violent poison of one kind, and there are evidences that another kind had been used. One poison was corrosiyesubllmate, and the other Is thought to j:e arsenic. The chemist was noteven informed whose stomach it was that had been submitted, and every effort was made to keep the circumstances secret until some day the author of the crime might be discovered, but lately the matter has become pretty freely circulated, and it looks now as if the guilty parson may go unpunished.