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wmmmvmsmsmmmssmm if',.-!".' m it' oEVERYsiNDICATION-IN VERMILYA'CASE POINTS Tp " 3f DISEASEfCASE NOT BIKE THAT OE BELLE GUNNESS o'day'! 's Developments in ,. t Verjnilya Poisoning-Case ci Coroner Hoffmapgoes to Crys tal Lake tp exhurnebodyjof'GJas. Vermilya rfeconcl' husband of ac cused woman.. ' ''"Wf -''"r i Police "Lieutenant Ernest Smith, Town ,Hair,station,cop Ifirms belief 'of 'S.ei-gf Stvnefr'thafr .Mrs. VerniilyaafentiedJ trial -"of Johann 'Ijloch" daily.'' '--r -w Dr.'L.-E.Hrkel 'who sigpedt "death certificate V -RichVtaHT. Smifh. says'he'beiieves'nfith was :M j1- . "- .iu-..r. -M .'?. IJUI3U11C11. I ' ' i 1 ' ' m. i Brqfier-m-law .Jk" of ' Fred Brin- poispmqg. ,, j - ' : t - -'. Police-invesj4gatj.on JntoJnsuc-, ante companies wijwnfCjr-iHTS, 'Vermilya .was coftnected ijegunr Police -following trailugf . ?Rep-' per bo:" . ' ?:,'. CoVoner 'P.eter $.'If ditipa'n an'd !city detectives' leftTCfiicago'toclay -for CrystarLakewhVre is buried the body of Charle&v yermilya, second hushandvof tHe wortfah ac cused of being) am6d.ern -Borgia, Although he refuYedtbfmakea .definite statemeiitjbefore leaving, it is believd that'ftjie coroner in tends to order thV exhumation of Vermftya's body. t .."" If this is' dorieit will-bring-the -total .number of jbodies exhumed in connection witfirthe case1 up to .three. ' . ' , . - The trip' of the,coroner and de tectives was;hurriediy decided-on-J aftera conference in the office of State's Attorney Burnham. 'Tt'is thought fha't new evidence isin'the'hands'of the state, inas much as Coroner' Hoffman an nounced publicly yesterday that no 'more bodies 'of-those whom the police say re the victims of Mrs.tVerrhilya would he exhumed until reports were ' received on those? of Richard T.1 Smith and jrank Bqnkamp. ' Cnarlesj vermiiva cnec August lfiXKJ.3 The death certificate gives'the-cause of death as "acute kas'triiis."1 V . fc ThisiWas,the cause given in the (Jases of Richard T. Smith and pjolieernan Arthur Bissonette. The symptoms, of acute gastri t's,are4a)most identical with those bf 'krsenical-pojsoning - - - -,,'Aftera sleepless night, Mrs. .Vermilya ii'in a state of almost tp'tal '.collapse at the county jail today! i. ;' "According' to;Mrs. May Small, who' was in attendance1 on Mrs. Vermilya during the night, the yoman who is the central figure in the' strangest' "poisoning case sincCthe days' of the Medici, did not'sleep twenty .minutes dunng the whole night. y ? "She was restless all night and tps'sed'to and fro no the bed," said Mrs.' Small. "Once I heard her make a sort oL moaning noise. I went oyer and asked her if there was anythmgvshe wanted. She looked at me with red eves, and said there was nothing that-could ,..-'..,- JgWl - " - "MMMMIIMI