The Cloroform Clue in the Felling Murder

The Seattle police are in possession of a valuable clue in the Felling murder case. It will be remembered that a bottle of chloroform was found in the cabin by the side of the murdered woman. It had never been opened, the cork having been broken in an evident hurried attempt to pull it. The label had been scratched off with premeditated purpose of destroying a clue; but the bottle was of a peculiar shape and the police have spent a great deal of time looking for a druggist who used this form of bottle. Every druggist in this city was visited without success. When Louis Bohn, of Tacoma, a grandson of the murdered woman, was suspected of having committed the murder, an effort was made to find the peculiar form of bottle in a Tacoma drug store. Bohn was allowed to go, however, upon what appeared to be a very plausible alibi to the effect that he was on Whidby Island on the night of the murder. The Tacoma police, however, have continued to search for the druggist who sold the chloroform. They have found bottles of the exact size, shape, and design as the one found in the Fetting cabin in E. A. Tripp's drug store there and have so notified Chief Jackson. Tripp refuses to give any information, but the fact that the bottle may have been purchased by the murderer in Tacoma is considered significant.