Deaths:
Aug. 6, 1921 – Leslie Keyes, died
Juky – Maud Aven, died
Fannie Elbert Aven, 5-m-o, died.
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FULL TEXT: W. I. Keyes of Winnsboro, Texas, is in Kinney
today. He is the father of Leslie Keyes, the young man killed near Waco a few
weeks ago, and whose death led to the arrest of the young man’s wife, Dessie
Keyes, and and his own uncle, W. T. Aven, against whom charges of murder have
been filed for the killing of Mrs. Maud Aven, Fannie Elbert, five-months-old
daughter of Aven, against whom charges of murder have been removed from the
Waco jail and taken elsewhere as a precaution against any violence, and that
section is said to be stirred over the horrible crimes that recently have been
brought to light in the alleged murder cases. W. I. Keyes who was reared a few
miles southeast of McKinney and in which section his son, Leslie Keyes, was
born and reared, said that he believed if the body of his son is exhumed and
the stomach and other vital organs examined and an analysis made it was his
candid opinion that poison would be found. Mrs. Maude Aven and her baby’s
stomach contained arsenic poison sufficient to have produced death.
~ Visited at Windsboro ~
Mrs. Keyes stated that Leslie Keyes and his little three
year old daughter visited at his home at Winnsboro, Texas, for two weeks
recently. They returned to their home near Waco on Wednesday and the Saturday
night following he was killed. Leslie had been sick before he went to visit his
parents, and his father stated that he was given a dose of medicine by Aven,
and became so sick that he was rushed to Dallas and placed in a sanitarium
where he remained for several days and was just getting over the illness when
he went to visit at Winnsboro. Mr. Keyes said that his wife told her son that
he had been “doped.” Mrs. Dessie Keyes did not accompany her husband and little
daughter to Winnsboro on their visit. The grape juice which Aven claims made
Keyes intoxicated on the night he was found dead. Keyes’ father said was made
from large grapes which his son gathered at his home near Winnsboro just before
running to his home near Waco.
~ Had Fear of Passion ~
Mr. Keyes recalled the fact that Mrs. Aven had told her
sister that Mrs. Aven had told her sister in Ft. Worth a few days before she
died that she was going to be poisoned. A few days following Mrs. Aven’s almost
instant death, Aven and his daughter and others were questioned by the county
attorney of McLennan county concerning the death, said Mr. Keyes. He said today
that had the officers gone ahead and exhumed the body of Mrs. Aven and found
the poison in her stomach, as was the case later, that the lives of his son,
Leslie Keyes, and little Fannie Elbert Aven would have been spared as Aven
would have been in the strong arm of the law.
[“Father Of Leslie Keyes Visits Here Asserts That Central
Texas Section Stirred Over Recent Revelations.” The Daily Courier-Gazette
(McKinney, Tx.), Aug. 30, 1921, p., 1]
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