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Wife Taken into Custody at Florence - Vial of Chloroform

Florence, March 12. - Mrs. May Bigham was arrested here tonight charged with attempting to convey to her husband, E. D. Bigham, a small bottle containing sufficient chloroform, according to physicians, to cause death. The arrest was made at the Atlantic Coast Line passenger station as Mrs. Bigham was preparing to take the train for Greenville. Deputy Sheriff Burch did not read the warrant to her by request until they had reached the jail, Mrs. Bigham being accompanied by her daughters, Misses Louise and Evelyn. The bottle of chloroform did not reach Bigham, it being intercepted by Jailer J. E. Cook, working through one of the trusted prisoners to whom Mrs. Bigham delivered it to be conveyed to her husband. In the past several weeks Jailer Cook has in the same manner intercepted several notes written by Bigham to his wife.

Edmund Bigham is in jail here awaiting trial on the charge of the murder of his mother, Mrs. M. M. Bigham; his sister, Mrs. Margie A. Black; his brother, L. S. Bigham, and John and Leo McCracken, two adopted children of Mrs. Black at the plantation home near Pamplico on January 15. It was a first thought that L. S. Bigham had perpetrated the crime and then killed himself, but after investigation Coroner Smith ordered the arrest of the living brother, charging him with the crime. Before her marriage to Bigham, Mrs. Bigham was Miss May James of Greenville.