FOU LIFE
f.:rs. Dora E. Doxey on Trial at
St. Louis Charged With Poi
soning William J. Erder-r
Conspiracy Feature.
ft:nltpl Prn teaw 1 Wlm.t
St. Louis, Mo., May !3. -Accused of
the murder of William J. Erder, a postal
clprk whom she admitted' marrying
while tha wife of Dr.. Loren B. Doxey,
Mrs., Dora E. Doxey was placed on-trial
today before Judge McQuillan.
Dr. Doxey,. who is; under rrest on
the same charge, will probably be tried
later. Ha was in Nebraska when Erder
; died, 11 but . the prosecution alleges that
the physician sent his wife poison, with
which to kill her , alleged victim. v,
' , "-rhd .fiJlegcd-imjtive ofi the accused Is
thai the Doxeys sought to obtain 12700
life insurance which Erder carried. , 4
The case had originally been set for;
March 28- but was postponed until May !
23 by agreement of counsel. - Ths case, '
which presents many interesting and
unusual features, has attracted consid
erable Interest throughout - tha stat
and also in several other states, where
the defendants had previously lived.
According to th records and Informa
tion unearthed by the prosecution. Wile
"Ham J. Erder, a postoffice clerlt at 8t
Louis was married at Clayton, a suburb
of this city, on April 26. 1909. to Mrs.
Dora Elizabeth Fuller . Doxey, ' now
charged with murder, who at that time
was tha lawful wlftLo Dr. Loren B.
Doxey. The records at Clayton show
that Erder, whosa ags was 86 years,
I had married a woman whose name was
given as Dora E. Dodd of Des Moines,
Iowa. IC ,1s expected to show that
Dora E. Dodd was in reality Mrs. Doxey.
i Erder Dies, . ; ,
A short time after their marriage Mrs.
Xoxey persuaded Erder to transfer to
liter 2700 of life insurance, of which his
mother and sister were the original
jbeneficlaiies. Although at tha time of
bis wedding a healthy and robust man,
! Erder became 111 a few days after bis
marriage and died on July 10, 1909.
,Tho physician called in by Mrs. Doxey
feigned a certificate stating that Erder
bad' died of tuberculosis. ; Immediately
I after the death of her alleged husband
1 Mrs. Doxey packed up all her house
bold furniture and' three days later she
shipped it to her real husband, Dr.
Loren B. Doxey, practicing: his profes-
: slon at Columbus, Neb. Before Mrs.
Doxey herself started for Columbus, she
appeared In the probate court and, mak
ing affidavit that she was the widow of
William J. Erder, obtained J500 Insur
ance upon the life of Erder's , sister,
Elizabeth, who had died shortly after
Eraer . marriage. ,
.. Shrewd Tactics of a Bister. .
Miss Mate Erder, another sister of
William J. Erder, suspecting that her
brother had not died a natural death.
began to make, an investigation, which
soon confirmed her suspicions. She as
certained that tha furniture had been
shipped to Dr. Doxeyat Columbus, Neb.
She went to Columbus and found that
the alleged widow of her Brother Wil
liam was living there as the wife of Dr.
Doxey. To gain time and detalri the
woman until a careful investigation
could be made here, Miss Erder had
Mrs,. Doxey arrested on the charge of
bigamy. Of course,, the charge fell flat,
as the Doxevs were able to nrnv whom
their case came up in December of last
year, that they had been lawfully mar-
tarl O f T)Hilnatnt. In... ' a. a
l "B .v.n, awwm, Ull AUjUBt 6 V,
J906, But Miss Erder gained her object
of , detaining the couple until she was
ready to make more serious charges
against them. She returned to St Louis
and prevailed upon the police authori
ties to have her brother's body exhumed
and his viscera subjected to a chemical
analysis by experts. The analysis es-
t,,l :.. J.cl t' 9 rrrwi;oe of ar--r'j In the
vital orcans of the deceased mid, upon
that finding the coroner's Jury gave a
verdict that William J. Erder had come
to his death by arsenic administered by
his alleged wife and that Dr. Loren B.
Doxey had guilty knowledge of the fact.
Both, were indicted for murder and the
governor of Nebraska was asked for the
extration of the indicted couple.
Morphine Victim.
During her confinement in Jail Mrs.
Doxey broken down and it was . found
that she had been a victim of the mor
phine habit for many years. By Judi
cious treatment she was cured of the
habit and r&tofcd to health. Her hus
band was not permitted to treat her
during her illness or to be alone with
her even for a moment Both bave re
peatedly denied their guilt and asserted
their confidence of being able to prove
their Innocence.
Mrs. Doxey was born in Aledo, 111., In
1880, the daughter of Colonel Jefferson
Fuller of that city. She was only 16
years old when she became the wife of
P.obert I Downing, a shoe merchant-of
Joy, 111. On account of her relations
to Dr, Doxey, Mr. Downing obtained a
divorce from her in IB 06. - She resumed
her maiden name and .returned to her
home-. It is known that she entertained
relations ; with . two men Immediately
after that and It Is believed that ahe
married ' both. One of. them, named
Dodd or Dodge, is said to have died six
months after the marriage and the
other, Frank Logear, has disappeared.
She married Dr, Doxey in 1906 and
while they wero living in Des. Moines
she married Erder, whose aequaintance
she had made in the spring of that year.
As "to her defense there are various the
ories. One theory is that she will claim
that It was some other woman that mar
ried and poisoned Erder. while some
persons are of the opinion Mrs. Doxey
will claim to have been under the influ
ence of drugs and -Dr. Doiey's hypnotic
power when she married and poisoned1
Erder.
TELLS 'EM HOW TO
,GET CONVENTION
New Orleans., May 23, Milton Car
michael, secretary of the Detroit Con
vention and Tourists' ureau, who is
here to secure the next convention of
the National Credit Men's association,
delivered an address before the pro
gressive union.
"The business of securing conven
tions," said Mr. Carmlchael, "is the
same as any other specialized business.
I am ' employed for no other purpose
whatever than to gei conventions for
Detroit. Not any convention, but good
conventions, which are profitable. It
is a business of dollars and cents, and
the convention that costs a city more
than it gets out of it, or as much, is
not a good one to have.
"This "year we have secured for De
troit conventions that will produce not
less than 19,000,000 Hi new business In
the ' city,'; ot which the hotels will de
rive about $3,000,000, i A profit of at
least 20 per. cent, or $1,800,000. can be
counted on beside the turn over of a
very large amount of money. ;vV .'
MAP AGENT FINDS
. MOST IGNORANT MAN
" - -' - i ii i lll.u.'kl
Marshall, Mich., May J3.A"" repre
sentative of a Chicago firm which sells
maps claims to have found, the most
Ignorant, man in the world, and a mem
ber of a school board at that He came
to Marshall and drove to a school In
neignDewng village. He has an appa
ratus showing the course of the world
and other planets around the sun. He
was able to find but one member of
the board at home, but to this one he
showed the apparatus.
The member was entirely unaware of
the. fact that the world revolved about
the sun, and he was absolutely sure that
the world Isn't round. The salesman
was rather surprised, but thought he
was being "kidded." The school direc
tor, however, became very earnest and
rather than have a row he finally left
AVIATOR FALLS 120 '
. FEET; BREAKS LEG
Madrid, May - 23. M. Gamier, a
French aviator, while flying at Pam
peluna, the capital of the province of
Navarre, Saturday- afternoon fell 120
feet His leg was broken and he re
ceived other serious Injuries.
M i,Ui.0..i Uf
G AT WHITE TEMPLE
Honor was rM to the memory of the
late King Edward of England in serv
ices held yesterday at the White Tem
ple, and presided over by 'Dr. A. A.
Morrison. Queen Alexandra received as
glowing a tribute from Dr. Walter B.
Hinson, speaker of the occasion as that
he gave to the relgm of the departed
king.
"A royal woman. Indeed, is she." said
Dr. HInson,,"and- for 'our cousins over
the-'seas we can offer no better prayer
than hat all succeeding rulers of Eng
land, teven to the end of time, may be
such as shall merit the approval of this
royal lady, whose heart was ever tender
and true; whose hand was ever ready
to help; whose tongue has uttered
nothing base whose whole life is as
pure an God's last snow upon the moun
tain peak.
Dr. Hinson also spoke of the sym
pathy felt by the American nation for
the British people in their bereavement
"It would seem to be fitting," he said,
that we should gather here today in
our memorial service to . express our
sympathetic regard for- the stricken
nation which mourns the sudden pas
sage of its gracious and gifted king.
Fitting It is. that We Britishers, whose
fathers with their fathers helped build
up on the other side of the Atlantic, a
great world'power; it is fitting that We,
th,eir children, whose fathers sleep In
English soil, -ahould Join in free Amer
ica -with their old-time kith and kin ln
the general mourning aver a great man
fallen and a pillar of the church, re
moved." ' '
Cauc23 9lj nor cent
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of Diseases
Advice Concerning Stomach
Troubles and How to
Remedy Them
Do not neglect indigestion which leads
to all sorts of Ills and complications.
An'emlnent doctor once said that ninety
five per cent of all the Ills of the human
body have . their origin In a disordered
stomach. ,
A physician who made a specialty of
stomach troubles, particularly dyspep
sia, after years of study perfected the
formula from which Rexall Dyspepsia
Tablets are made. 1
Our experience with Rexall Dyspepsia
Tablets leads us to believe them to be
the greatest remedy known for the re
lief of acute "Indigestion and chronic
dyspepsia, Their ingredients- are sooth
ing and healing to the Inflamed mem
branes of the stomach. They are rich
fn pepsin, one of the greatest digestive
aids known to medicine. The relief they
afford is almost immediate. . Their use
with persistency and regularity for a
short .time brings about a cessation of
the pains caused by stomach disorders.
" Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets Will insure
healthy appetite, aid digestion and pro
mote nutrition. As evidence of our sin
cere, faith ln Rexall Dyspepsia 'Tablets,
we ask you to try them at our risk. If
they do not give you entire satisfac
tion, we will Teturn you the money you
paid us for them, without question or
formality. They come ln three sizes
prices 26 cents, 60 cents and $1.00. Re
member: you can obtain' them only at
our store. The Rexall Store. The Owl
Drug Co., cor. 7th and Washington fits.
Pure Fd'od for,
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Highest standards of purity
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f acture of the incomparable
BETWEEN
PORTLAND
AND .
SPOKANE
DAILY
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Will Be Inaugurated by the O. R. & N;
Wednesday, May 25, 1910
Leaving PORTLAND at 6. p. m.
Arriving SPOKANE Next Morning 7:30
A atnctiy mgnmss irain
. Electric Lighted Throughout
Promptly 'Ofl:,Timie-
Stops at Hood River and The Dalles only.
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Its superior equipment will include an Observation Car, Drawing
Room, Sleeping Cars, Dining Carr;Tourist Sleeping - Cars ; and
Free Reclining Chair Cars. . -
Purchase tickets and obtain all desired information at. the City r
Ticket Gftice, .Third and Washmgtori Streets.
WRI. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon
5'S fHf..-it
BRAND
FooS ProducU: You can rely upon trie Columbia"
Brand as the staum of highest perfection. Ton
can bay Columbia Brandt Hams, Bacon 'and Lard,
with entire confidence In their absolute 'purity. '
They are J7, 8. Government Impeded and Passed.
At Best Dealers, Hotels and Cafes
Union Bleat Company. Fortland, Oregon : '
Floater Picktri of tit Pacific
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T6n Fden Enter Big Race
Seattle,. San Franolsco and Chicago
represented in the big six-day racing
contest to start Thursday, night at the
Exposition Rink. -Local racers are in
fine trim and will be given a tryout
tonight after the regular session. Mar
shall and Fay of San Francisco may
titke part tonight ln the tryout. Fastest
bunch of racers ever assombled on the
coast meet local racers Thursday night
at 9:30 p. m. at Exposition Rink. Seats
for five thousand spectator. Skating
before and after the races. , .
Cf os fiig-Qir-; Sae'-bf fe iWci ifert & McDonnell Stock
By the Brownsville Woolen
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$1.25 Taffeta Silk, G9.
. 36 inch Black Taffeta Silk, soft finish, very heavy
1 and firm; $1.25 quality, at . . . . ,'. . . .... . . . . .69f
$1.50 Nun's Veilings, 69. '
v. All wool 44 inch cream Nuns' Veilings; best $1.50
grades, at " .........69f
$2.50 Linen Cloths, 98.
Bie lot hemstitched and Battenberg Lunch Cloths,
Scarfs, etc; vals. to $2,50, at.. .......... ,,., 98
Best Knitting Silk, 10.
Carlson-Currier best grade of Knitting Silks', "to
dose, At.-10 for full size balls. - :
" To $2.50 Parasols," 797 " 7 ' f
Lingerie Parasols, pink, white, blue and fancy
stripes; to $2.50 values, at..,,,....; T9V
To 50c Fancy Hose, 19. '
Women's Lisle Hose, fancy design polka dots,
., etc; values to 50c, at 19
12cT15c Flannelette, 8.
, Outings and Flannelettes, checks, stripes and fig
' ures, light and dark; 12 and 15c grades, at... 8
To $2X)0 Petticoats; 98 '
White muslin Petticoats, lace and 'embroidery
flounces; values to $2 at .--....,., ,.98
$4.00 Lawn Waists $2.29. '
Made of extra fine lawn and trimmed most beau-!
tifully with finest val.i insertion, embroidery and
. pin tucks, open back. . -
75c Bleached Satin Damask, 49.
62 inch wjde, extra heavy and durable, large variety
of handsqme designs,- ,
Boy's $4; Suits, $2.45. "
These Suits are made of heavy dark striped wool
rheviot in knicker styje and come in size 6 to 17..
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We give the free pick and
choice of all Women's Tailor-Made
Suits in stoch
They were bought to sell at
$30, $35, $h0, $H5and $50,
. . For Only
We are ! going to make short work of closing out the'
eighty odd tailor made suits we have in stock by 'offer-'
ing them at from one-half to one-third of the price, they ,
were bought to sell at. Blacks and all the new spring
shades. . 1 .
ill Store
1 ' II II, I 111 -- ' ' " I ' ' -p -:'"' i.StL..'A -V 'j.'i.'ii
To $2.25 Press Goods,' G9c '-' : : t .
. Novelties, Ser'ges, Granites, Cheviots; best colors
and fabrics; 44 to 54 inches wide; value to $2.23. ) ..
Child's 35c-50c Pants, 19. , ,
Child's Pants, jersey ribbed, black only;- 35c and
50c grade, at ; . .
To 75c Back Combs, 5.
- Balance of Shell and Amber Back Combs and Bar
rettes; values to 25c, at..'
50c Lace Hose at 21.
Bleached lace Lisle ' Hose ih allover' and boot
designs; 50c grades .... . .......... i .... i ... .21
To 25c Val. Lace, .G. , . ...
German, French and Belgian Val. Laces, 1 to 2
inches wide; values to -25c, at ,.6
To $3.00 Corsets at 89.
Warner's and Glove-Fitting Corsets; all models '
that sold at $3, at . . . . .... ... ..... . . . .89
To $2.00 Muslin Gowns, 9Sc
Big lot Muslin Night Gowns, high nd low-neck,
long and short sleeves, lace . and embroidery
. trimmed. , ' '
To $2.00 Waists, 83. ' ;
"Women's wSite lawn Waists, embroidered, hem
stitched and lace trimrjied, open either front or back.
$1.50 Tailored Waists, 98. ' -
White lawn tailor-made Waists, tucked front and
back, stiff collar and cuff; excellent value.
40c Bleacried Damask, 19 .
This comes in Loom Dice pattern, is 60 inches
wide, heavy, and will wear.well. - ,
Child's'65c Aprons, 29;
Child's Aprons of fast colored ginghams and per-,
cales, prettily trimmed with white braid; slip on ,
vcr the head.
LfCE OF SALE
rd and Horrison
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PLACE OF SME
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This' is the accepted slogan for Oregon, and,
according to records of sales of farm Unds, .nv.de
in the last few" years, investors and homeseckers
' show their faith in the prediction.- -
, " A' tract of 2000 acres, located most .favorably .
in the line of rapid development the Willam-
ette Valley, 30 miles east of Portland, 1 miles V
- from Gresham; is offered for sale by tht Portland f
Railway, Light & Power Company at a low price
per acre, on favorable terms. 5 '
' . 'i .a - - ' s.t." : .
A projected railroad line is to pass through
V or near this tract, a countyroad already funi?h-
ing means of entry and exit for vehicles, .include r
, ing automobiles. . . ' ' ', .
. In the wooded portion, 22,000,000 feet of good
- saw timber stand ready for. the Voodman's ax,"'
. and the timber at present prices would go far
toward paying for the entire tract. , .There is'a .
lumbef mill within three miles, in operation.
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. There, are fully'900 acres of level or gently
: sloping farming land; available when cleared and '
; .: from 700 to 800 acres of fine grazing land new
awaiting the farmer or dairyman, ' '.
. Two good sized creeks with. numerous Jj-ibu-taries
furnish an abundance of water. .
The-tract will be disposed of as ti wh')le,
though a new owner could subdivide to great
advantage. . , :
For terms and full particulars, call on or ad
. dress Land Department,; Room '623, ' Electric '
Building, Portland. " ' . .
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Light Ci Power Company
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