Woman Borgia Emulates the Fate of Egypt’s Queen.
    Cora Smith, whose death took place at Anamosa, Iowa, penitentiary Monday killed herself by eating spiders. A paper bag partially full of the insects was found in her cell and an examination of her stomach showed that the poison from the insects caused her death. She left a written confession addressed to Attorney General Milton Remley, in which she persists, that she and she sister Ellen administered the poison which caused the death of their father, Michael Smith, and that her mother, Betsy Smith, who is confined for life full the murder, is innocent. She wrote the confession while contemplating the suicide. The spiders she secured from the stone walls of the prison.
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