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Born, Massachusetts, October 30th, 1901, Miss Jane Topin, who a month ago waved farewell for the summer,

to the scores of friends who had assembled at the railroad station to see her off, returned to this

place this afternoon

in custody of a detective, accused of one murder, and suspected of having caused the death of an

entire family. Born Cemetery has given up its dead, and from out of the grave has come

evidence of an awful crime.

Alden P. Davis, Mrs. Davis, and their two daughters,

Mrs. Harry Gordon and Mrs. Mary Gibbs, all died during the month of August.

All four bodies were buried in the same little plot,

and although for a time the village gossips wondered much at the calamity, no one suspected foul play, and the burials were made without investigation.

Later, the matter came to the notice of District Attorney Holmes, who had the bodies exhumed and autopsies performed.

The stomachs were sent to Professor Wood of Harvard College for analysis. who had the bodies exhumed and autopsies performed.

The stomachs were sent to Professor Wood of Harvard College for analysis.

People have borne strongly objected to the action taken by the district attorney.

They scoffed at the idea that murder had been committed in this quiet town.

But yesterday, the result of Professor Wood's analysis became known through the arrest of Jane Toppen, and across the face of the report is written

the red word of poison. Jane Toppen was the friend of the Davis family, and being a trained

nurse she attended all of them during their last

sicknesses. She is now in jail, waiting trial for their murder. Miss Toppen was arrested in Amherst,

New Hampshire Tuesday night by Colonel Whitney of the state police, and Inspector Flood and Deputy

Marshall Wheeler of Nashua. She was stopping at the home of

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