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Show HI ACCUSED ! OF AWFUL CRIME Wholesale Poisoning of Persons Per-sons to Secure Small ; Sums of Money Philadelphia Woman Is Accused ot Murdering Five Persons In Past Eleven Months for Paltry IV Sum, Not Sparing Her ', t Own Children, Philadelphia, Tho most remark-tblo remark-tblo cafle of wholcsalo poisoning of persons to secure Insurance money thnt has ever been unearthed n this city, Is charged against Drld-got Drld-got Carey, who was arrested Thursday Thurs-day night. Tho woman, who Is 32 years old, Is charged with having poisoned hor husband, Patrick, her wo children Mary, aged 8 years, nnd Annlo, nged C, who died n wools ago, and Patrick and Cecelia Cook, tenants ten-ants In the Carey house, nt 1912 Hamilton Ham-ilton street. All of tho alleged victims died within with-in cloven mouths and tho police nl-lego nl-lego that Mrs. Carey benefitted benefit-ted by their deaths to tho extent ot $1,000, through tho collection of Insurance. The woman's wo-man's arrest followed an Investigation mado into tho dentha of her two children, chil-dren, which occurred Inst week. It was said at the tlmo that their deaths wero caused by eating poisoned candy can-dy or candy thnt contained doletorlous substances. |