Woman Held As Prisoner.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 16, 1912:
Second Arrest In Double Death by Drugged Whisky In Georgia.
Special to The New York Times.
    ATLANTA, Ga., July 35.— Mrs. Ida Schmidt was arrested here this afternoon on a warrant from Birmingham, Ala., charging her with the deaths of Guy R. Coleman and Stephen Strickland, who were killed by poisoned whisky sent to Coleman through the mails on Dec. 20, 1910. Mrs. Schmidt is the second Georgia woman arrested in connection with the deaths of Coleman and Strickland.
    The first woman arrested was Miss Ola Gunter, a nineteen-year-old girl of Elberton. Ga., who was found in Jacksonville, Fla,. Saturday and taken to Birmingham. She was released to-day, but is under surveillance. The arrest of Mrs. Schmidt followed immediately on the release of Miss Gunter. Both Mrs. Schmidt and Miss Gunter are members of prominent families and their fiends refuse to believe that they are implicated in the deaths of Coleman and Strickland.
    Mrs. Schmidt is separated from her husband, and both she and Ola Gunter were living in Birmingham when Coleman and Strickland received the whisky which killed them. The detectives are working on the theory that jealousy prompted the double crime.
    Coleman and Strickland were well-to-do and widely known. They were together in Coleman's office when the postman handed Coleman a package. The package contained a bottle of whisky. Coleman opened the bottle, and both he and Strickland drank. In ten minutes both were dead. The package was addressed by a feminine hand.
    Detectives refused to-night to disclose the nature of the evidence against the women.