Maud Straw
- Born: 1878, Iowa
- Died: 8 Feb 1896, Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa at age 18
- Buried: East Lawn Cemetery in Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa
 Cause of her death was poisoning.
General Notes:
census 1880 Marietta, Marshall Co, IA
Jonathan Humphrys 1816 OH; father born VA
Narssa (wife) born 1816 OH; father b. VA
Evan (son) 1858 IN; single
John W. (son) 1853 OH; single
May Straw (grand daughter)1874 IA; father born VT; mother b. OH
Maud Straw (grand daughter) 1876 IA ; father born VT; mother born OH
Name: Maud STRAW Age: 4 Estimated birth year: <1876> Birthplace: Iowa Occupation: At School Relation: GDau Home in 1880: Marietta, Marshall, Iowa Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Head of household: Jonathan HUMPHRYS Father's birthplace: VT Mother's birthplace: OH
9 Feb 1896 - SIOUX CITY JOURNAL
Maud Straw of Sheldon dies under peculiar circumstances.
Sheldon - Feb 8
"Considerable excitement prevails here over the finding of the dead body of Maud Straw, 19 yrs old, at a house alone at 10 o'clock this morning. she had been lving with her sister and bro in law [Leonard and May (Straw) Winter] who have been in the country for a week. [According to 1900 census her sister May was married (1895) and living in Sheldon] She was last seen alive Wed noon when she went home from school early saying she had to get dinner for someone, not mentioning any names.The coroners jury could find no marks of violence on the body and a post mortem examination witll be made." [It was later determined she left school on Monday and was not there on Tuesday or Wed and found dead on Saturday]
19 Feb A..A. Bull and Wm Morrow were charged with her murder; post mortem revealed poison in her stoamch and perforation of the stomach.Morrow was released but Bull was bound over to Grand Jury with bail of $1000. Witnesses saw Bull at the "Winters" home earlier in the week while Maud's family was away.
Mar 10 - Grand Jury retruned no indictment.
May 8 - a chemist's report of the stomach showed no evidence of poison but did admit that some poisons are so volatile that they may have disappeared before the analysis. Regarding the perforation: poisons leave a large and ragged perforation and this was not indicated in the earlier exam...."there was hardly sufficient grounds, it seems to me, to warrant a decision of death as the result of an irritant poison...."
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