Show I NfW iffl1LroI8tll MYSTERY j STORY OF THE UUESE WHO ATTENDED AT-TENDED BAS1TET Victim Received Flowers and a Mysterious Mys-terious Note Signed Blache Found the Package of Poison Xew York Jan SAn apparent progress was made today in the solution solu-tion of the mystery attached to the Adams poisoning case Miss Addle E Bates the trained nurse who attended Henry C Barnet the Knickerbocker club member who is alleged to have died from poison called to see Captain McCluskey today Captain McCluskey gave out the substance of his talk with her as follows According to Miss Bates statement she was sent for by Dr Henry B Douglass I Doug-lass on Nov 1 last to take care of a case She called at Mr Douglass office of-fice and was directed by him to go to I the Knickerbocker Athletic club to attend at-tend a diphtheria patient a man The patient had a sore throat and Dr I Douglass came in the afternoon and gave directions for giving medicine and spraying the throat The doctor also I I told her to admit no one to the natients I room during his illness She gave him j medicine at different times and refused to let anyone see him Many messages mes-sages came to him but they were answered j an-swered by her over the telephone At different times the statement continues a gentleman having a room I on the same floor in the club called to inquire for him and also sent him flowers flow-ers On Monday afternoon before he died he died on Thursday Nov 10 some flowers came to Mr Barnet with a note He was sleeping at the time When he awoke I told him some flowers flow-ers were there and also a note He requested me to read the note and I did so After reading the note he just closed his eyes and said I wonder how she knew I was ill After I had been there two or three days Dr Douglass asked me if I had seen a box marked Cutnow I answered swered that 1 had and we found it on the dresser in the bathroom Mr i Douglass took it away with him He I afterward said it contained mercury A the time of Barncts death there were in the room Dr Douglass myself and Miss Jennie Callender the other j nurse His brother had been there too but at the particular time he died he was not there During Mr Barnets entire illness he was in such a condi tion a a man suffering from diphthe ra At no time was I suspicious that his illness was due to any other cause He was uncommunicative through all his illness I paid no attention to the sores on his mouth and sprayed his throat Miss Bateg denied that she had ever said to anyone that Barnet had been poisoned before the poisoning with wih which he was affected just before his final illness The most important part of the in terview with the nurse is that which relates to the sendine of tim fi I to Barnet and the note which accom fnn panied them This Is supposed to be the note signed Blanche about which so much has been written and about which there has been so much specu lation a to the identity of its sender Captain McCluskey now has this note in his possession He will not permit it to be seen tell sen or whether it is now in the hands of the handwriting expert He would not admit that the note was signed Blanche but when in dis cussing some point one of his listeners asked if the note referred to was the one signed Blanche Captain Mc 11c Cluskey replied in the affirmative He quickly corrected himself however The captain said that the interview with Miss Bates threw no light upon the Adams case and said that he had not requested Miss Bates to make a statement He said that Miss Bates could not recall the name of the man who had sent flowers to Barnet at the club on two or three occasions When asked as to the time when Mr Kinsley the expert in handwriting 1landwrIlng might make his report upon the sped mens in his possession Captain Mc Cluskey said that it might be in forty eight hours With relation to the possible pos-sible exhumation of the exhumaton thebody of Bar net the captain said that that matter was in the hands of the district mater ator ney and the coroner |