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ARRESTS IN POISON CASE Four Men in Custody of Police PoliceImplicated Implicated in Death of ofTwo Two Eace Horses AURORA 111 May 28 Four men have been arrested and another is being sought in connection with the poisoning of several race horses here yesterday of which Apology and Elizabeth K died last night the latter in intense agony agonyThe The four men under arrest are U G Young of Charleston W Va Frank Marion Springfield Ohio Charles Davis Dayton Ohio and Earnest Leaver of Toronto Out OutIieaver Iieaver and Marion have made confessions according to the police policeThe The man sought is Earl Clark of Colum ¬ bus Ohio Pinkerton detectives who aided Aurora police in digging into the poison scandal almost upon the instant of its dis ¬ covery found in Clarks hotel room telegrams indicating that he had been directing the activities of the four men under arrest The messages suggested he in turn was agent for a party ot gamblers who were arranging to bet upon Faenza One telegram found read Meet Faenza at High and Spruce Streets at 5 oclock oclockDispatches Dispatches from Columbus Ohio last night stated that an Earl Clark was arrested there about two years ago for injecting some poison into horses competing at the Beulah Park track in Columbus When he was put off the track he started court action to put horse racing out of business in Columbus ColumbusIn In their confessions given to Police Chief Frank Michels Marion and Lester said they visited the track stables yesterday morning accompanied by Davis and Young They tossed into the feed boxes of the four animals selected for the poisoning lumps of sugar impregnated witli strychnine It had been intended only to weaken the four and not in ¬ capacitate them so that the race might be run as scheduled scheduledThe The confessions named Clark as field mar ¬ shal of the conspirators They admitted that they had placed a number of bets by tele ¬ graph and telephone as well as personally among bookmakers at Aurora Cicero and in Chicago ChicagoLeaver Leaver and Marion were arrested in their room at an Aurora hotel Young and Davis were overtaken by motorcycle policemen while speeding in Youngs auto toward Chi ¬ cago In the car the police found an apple some drugs and a salt shaker shakerExamination Examination of the stomach of Apology who died late yesterday afternoon is being made and all indications point to death by strychnine poison On further searching the room occupied by Clark this morning police report that they found a quantity of loaf sugar said to contain strychnine Clark is still at large but a diligent search is being made for him by police throughout the country