Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa Wednesday, January 27, 1904 HAPPENINGS IN IOWA E.S. Blydenburg on Trial. E.S. Blydenburg is on trial at Eldora for the alleged poisoning of his third wife. Witnesses testified to the sale of arsenic and to dissatisfaction experienced by Mrs. Blydenburg prior to her death in which she determined to leave her husband. Blydenburg , who was a Sunday school teacher, a deacon in the church and a philanthropist, was arrested in October and evidence has since been developed tending to show that two of his former wives died violent deaths. Professor Vaugh, the Michigan chemist, produced ten grains of white arsenic found in the dead woman's stomach. Robber Reveals Plunder. Before leaving for the penitentiary, Abner Hicks, one of the four robbers of the Quimby bank, piloted the officers to a haystack where the robbers had cached $70,000 worth of notes and securities taken from the bank, Dec. 16. Of the $3,300 in money stolen all has been recovered except $400. Just thirty-five days from the night of the robbery the four self-confessed robbers, Hicks, Dunning, Wicks and White were in the penitentiary to serve seven years each. Says Husband Burned Home. After a violent quarrel with his wife in which she alleges he threatened to burn their home, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Larson separated at Sioux City. The woman went to the home of a neighbor. A few minutes later she saw flames issuing from her abode and before she would summon assistance the house was destroyed. Her husband is charged with the crime but vigorously denies it. Denies He Killed Wife. The preliminary hearing of William E. Slifer, charged with the murder of his wife at Melrose a few days before Christmas was held at Grundy Center and he was bound over without bonds to await the action of the Grundy county grand jury. The young man pleaded not guilty to the charge and the affir is in mystery. Quimby Bank Robbers Sentenced. The Quimby bank robbers, Charles White, John Wicks, Elmer Dunning and Abner Hicks, pleaded guilty at Cherokee and were sentenced to seven years in prison at hard labor. The men seemed utterly indifferent. Telegraph Operator Kills Himself. Fred Herrling, who has been operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, for the last twenty-five years, shot himself through the head and died instantly at Volga City. He leaves a wife. Cathy Joynt Labath Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/