Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — A JUVENILE BORGIA. [ARTICLE]

A JUVENILE BORGIA.

AN INDIANA GIRL. GIVES HER FOSTER PARENTS POISON. Dead Bodies of Pit z el’s Missing Daughters Found—Rifles for Cuban iHßUTtjentH—Bloody Deed of Peter Baser—Hora Millions in Sight. Ghastly Discovery at Toronto. Fleming Sarver and wife, of Uninntown, Ind., had an adopted daughter, Dollie Belknap, aged 14. The couple are (50 years old each and well off. , The. git;l has been keeping company with Hays Robins, the son of one of the wealthiest farmers of that section. Saturday morning Mr. and Mrs. Sarver were taken ill. Poison was found in the coffee-pot. It was learned the adopted daughter had purchased a package of the poison a few days before. She finally confessed-she had placed a teaspoonful in the coffee-pot Friday evening. When questioned as to why she committed the crime she produced a letter signed by her lover —HnyS Robins —in. which Jte. tells her if she would make away with her foster parents she would come into possession of all fheir property and they contd then get married and have “a good Old time:” Dollie says she took the letter to Josie Derringer, aged 1(5, and her sister Mary and let them read it, and they advised, her to purchase the poison. Mr. Sarver died Mo nday afternoon. When Mfs. Sarvef heard of her husband’s death she took a relapse and is not expected to live. Since the death of Mr. Sarver the girl says she did not intend to kill them, but only wanted to give them enough so they would think they would die and make her a deed to their property. She also says she does not believe Robins wrote the. letter, but that it was written by the older Derringer girl. ' 1 - J' "

To Purchase Discarded Arms. James M. Webb, of Brooklyn, has returned from Washington, where lie has been trying to secure some of the small arms which are being replaced by the new magazine rifle for use in the army. If the Captain’s negotiations with the War Department are successful the condemned rifles will find their way into the hands of the Cuban revolutionists. That is admitted by Webb and the local representatives of the Cubans do not deny it.—The Captain says: “It may not surprise our Spanish friends to know that small arms intended for Cuba are being sent out of Brooklyn and New York at the rate of about 5,000 every week. None of the laws of this country is violated by the shippers, but the arms get to the revolutionists in due course, nevertheless. _i '< Chicago Man’s Crime. Tired of life and disgusted with threatened divorce proceediugs. Peter Haser tried to kill his wrfw Monday, and, thinking he had done so, cut his own throat cleanly through with a big sharp knife and his worldly joys and sorrows were forever at end. Haser was a member of a planing mill firm and was quite wealthy. His murderous and- suicidal orgy was hold at 8:30 O’clock in the morning. His wife will bear several vicious scars as a result of the encounter, but she may discontinue her -divorce proceedings, for Haser is well dead. The woman was stabbed several times, but her injuries will not cause her death. Haser cut his throat and died an hour later. To Divide the Mora Money. As soon as payment of the celebrated Government and the attorneys for the claimants have deducted their share of the $1,500,000 which Spain has agreed to pay at once, Antonio Maximo Mora and his son, of Chicago, will divide among themselves what is left of the the money. Of the sum to be paid by the Spanish Government 40 per cent, will be given to a syndicate in New York which is composed of the attorneys who have been working in the interests of the claimants. Crime Is Laid Bare. The bodies of Alice and Nellie Fitzel, the two missing daughters of Beujamiu F. Pitzel, were found at Toronto, Ont., buried under the cellar of a house. The children are believed to have been suffocated by gas by H. 11. Holmes, the man who is supposed to have killed their father in Philadelphia. A third child, Howard, aged .8, is thought to have been murdered similarly in another City by Holmes, the desire being to rid himself of three beings who might rise to convict him of the other crime. Japs to Put Down Formosa Uprising. A force of 7,000 Japanese troops has left Tiiatula to attack the black flags at Tai-Wan-Fu, Formosa. A strong naval force will co-operate with the land force of the Japanase. Iteports received from the southern part of Formosa show that all is quiet there.