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Show CHARGED WITH MURDER OF CHILDREN AND HUSBAND PHILADELPHIA WOMAN UNDER ARREST Mrs. Bridget Carey Said t Have Beea Prompted ky Gilky Lot ia Committal of Atreciomi Act Wkoleiale Arseaic Tragedy Hat Stirred Auburn, New Ytrk. If Philadelphia. Charged with one of - tho moat horrlblo crimes on record, the murder of her husband and two I little children, for paltry Hums of In-t In-t Hurance, with porhaps the added mo-I mo-I tive of getting rid of thetn to facilitate i n marriage with another man, Mrs. ? Bridget Carey, of Nineteenth and Ham-.' Ham-.' 11 ton streetM, Ih now awaiting trial, : while the evidence Is hourly becoming j more and more strong that may lend J her to tho gallows. The police say J they will hnve tho woman's lover In ? the dock with her when she faces the ;, Jury, i Not only Is she charged with these ', monstrous murders of a devoted husband hus-band and tho children which she bore, ,' but also with that of a man and woman who boarded with her and tuton whose lives also Bhe had Inaur-Ace. Inaur-Ace. And while this revolting tragedy was being enacted at Philadelphia another startling caso of poisoning, equally wholesale, was coming to light In the peaceful town of Auburn, N. Y., where William F. Walt, n well-known and respected business man, and one by ono his entire household had been poisoned successively In a way so mysterious that beyond the fact that arsenic was the deadly chemical need no clow has yet been found which may lead to the discovery of tho perpetrator. per-petrator. Attention was called to tho alleged wholcsnlo murder here by the death a short time ago of Mrs. Carey's two children, Anna and May, tho tlrst of West Philadelphia took the youngest child to her home, where after a hard struggle he survived the effect of his Illness. Tho two girls, however, were treated 'at home and died the next day. While the physician at first announced his opinion that candy of u poor sort had caused the trouble, he notified the coroner that the rase should be looked Into. The llrst part of the Investigation tlmt followod was devoted to testing tho character of the various kinds of candy In the neighboring stores and especially at the store where tho children chil-dren had made their purchases. Poison In Children's Bodies. It was with llttlo surprise that the detectives received the report of the chemists that tho candy appeared to be practically pure, for by the time tho chemical tests were concluded the detectives de-tectives bad become Interested in the stories they had learned regarding tho other sudden deaths In the houso within a short time. The bodies of the two children wero then quietly exhumed and examined and It was found that a largo amount of arsenic was In the stomach of each. Other Investigators had meanwhile brought to light the fact that all tho persons who had died suddenly were insured In the same Insurance company. com-pany. In looking up the story of the Illness of tho two children It was found by tho police that the story that poisoned candy should be blamed for their death wob made public by tho woman Ttio caso Is ono ot tho meet per-' ptexlng and myaUariona ever known la tho history of the stale. About two years ago Mr. Walt, now, In the SOJs, and always a man ol robust health, began to loao weight and to complain of stomach trouble. Ho lost his appetite and suffered from nausea. He was treated by tho family fam-ily physician. Dr. Hnodgrass, but did not Improve. Last summer he went to his country place on the lake with Mrs. Walt and the servants. Rev. Mr. Clements and his wife wero with them part of the time. They had many visitors and It Is recalled by one of the maid that scarcely anyone who ate dessert at the lake cottage escaped Illness. The boy of all work became so sick that he had to bo sent home, moaning with pain. Anna Flynn and Margaret Hart-nett, Hart-nett, maid hnd cook, were to prostrated pros-trated they could not work. Mr. Walt's condition finally became so alarming that II was decided to return to Auburn. He grew steadily worse. The suggestion was made that the sewerage of the house might be defective and responsible tor the strango malady which afflicted the entire en-tire household. Plumbers and drain litters wero called and all the plpo ripped out. Not the slightest trace ot sewer gas was discovered. 8uspected Ptomaine Poisoning- Then came the theory of ptomaine poUonlng and to treat this more successfully suc-cessfully Mr. Walt was taken to the Auburn City hospital and placed under special treatment. The climax came one Sunday night, when tho elder Wnlt was returned to his home. The several wltneses who were sufferers as well, are not specific as to the exuet dato, but Margaret Hartnctt, the cook; Mrs. Josophlne Watklns, the motherly old washerwoman, washer-woman, and Catherine Walsh, the general gen-eral utility woman, place It as six weeks ago. When a sponge cake was baked the sugar used In the frosting was taken from a box in the pantry where throe boxes of sugar were kept tho pulverized pulver-ized nearest the door, the granulated next and the brown sugar next to that. The old colored woman prepared some hard sauce for a pudding. She used the pulverized sugar. Margaret Hartnett, the cook, used the granulated granula-ted sugar for the frosting which she beat up with eggs. whom was six years old and the latter K eight years ot age. At the time ot K their death the fatality was ascribed I to eating poisonous candy. ft It was quickly discovered that the m woman's husband, two of the children K and two boarders In the house had K ficd suddenly and thut another child, K ittle Edward, throo years old, had been critically 111 with stomach pains. K Noxt, according to Captain of De- tectlves Donaghy, came the discovery E that the woman had been buying rat I poison containing a largo amount of E arsenic, just before tho Budden illness I of her children and the suspicion be-E be-E came so strong that her arrest was E decided upon. I The first to die suddenly In the 1 household was Mrs. Carey's husband. 1 Thu next death In the Ill-fated house I was that of Collu Cook, who died on I August 14. I Then In order came: I Patrick Coyle, 37 years old, on Sep I tember 17. I May Carey, eight years old, died on November 17. I Anna Carey, six years old, died on 1 November 17. I E'Jward Caroy, three years old, be- I came seriously 111 on November IB, 1 but was taken away from the house by an aunt. I Mr. Carey was insured for $260. I Celln Cook was Insured for $J00. K Patrick Coyle was Insured for $215. Each of the two children were In- vured for $200. I In all the five lives were rated at i Two Little Girls Die. ' The death of the two little girls of Mrs. Carey furnished a day's sensation sensa-tion to the neighborhood. The girls had received a few pennies from neighbors neigh-bors and had purchased candy at a store near their home. They gave some of the candy lo their llttlo brother and when they became suddenly sud-denly 111 the physician called to at- tend the case, after asking what tho children had eaten, ascribed the effects of their Illness to the enndy. An aunt of the children living In herself before the attendant physician had expressed an opinion. Then came tho report of other detectives tending to show that the woman bad purchased rat poison a short time before be-fore the doath of her children and her arrest was determined upon. Deep Mystsry In Auburn Cass. The poisoning at Auburn, N. Y was still more wholesale and more deeply shrouded In mystery. William F. Walt of the carpet manufacturing manu-facturing firm of Nye & Walt, president presi-dent of the Cayuga County Savings bank and one of the most prominent and respected citizens of Auburn, la n patient in the Auburn City hospital, so desperately II) that his recovery Is uncurtain. His son, W. Myron Walt, reputed to be one of the wealthiest young men In the town, Is In tho samo Institution undergoing trcntment based upon symptoms similar In those of his father. Itev. Harvey Clements, son-in-law of the elder Walt, a graduate of tho Auburn Theological seminary, one of the most noted young Presbyterian clergymen In the country, is In Utica or Schenectady In a condition similar to that of his father-in-law isnd brother-in-law. Frederick Hancock, 'coachman for tho Walt family; Margaret Hartnctt, the cook; Anna Flynn, thu waitress; Mrs. Josephine Watklns, a colored washerwoman; Miss McFadden of Auburn Au-burn and Miss Harris of Hkaneatoles, both trained nurse-, are recovering slowly from an Illness precisely similar simi-lar In symptoms lo that which has stricken their employers. Catherine Walsh, an eldorly woman, who helps out when the domestic service ser-vice In the Watt mansion Is overtaxed, Is the only one stricken who hus regained re-gained her normal condition. All those persona, together with a woman guest at the jiumuiur cottage I of the Walts at Lake Owasco and a I boy of all work employed there, are j I liu victims of arsenic poisoning, in i every Instance pulverized or granu-i granu-i iHtcd sugar was the medium used, Aftor dinner, at 1 p. m., Josephine Watklns ate a spoonful of the sauce she had made. At 3 o'clock she waa taken with violent cramps and nausea. She nearly died. The cook ate a piece of the cake she had baked and so did Anna Flynn, the waitress. Hancock, the coachman, took (wo mouthfuls of tho frosting. Ninety minutes later all three were rolling about In agony. Ilev. Mr. Clements and his wife wero In the same condition upstairs. Mr. Walt was 111 In his bedroom and Mrs. Walt complained of Illness. The doctors did not agree as to tho cause. The majority thought it ptomaine poisoning. Dr. Tripp later said positively that tho case ot the coachman was due to arsenic. Dr. A. H. Ilrown, the city health officer, had Dr. Coe make an analysis ot the cake. He did not discover arsenic. Fly direction of Detective Oraney the cook baked cakes In which she used sugur taken from the household house-hold boxes, which then contained only a few ounces of material. These cakos were fed to dogs and guinea pigs. Some of the dogH showed symptoms of arsenic poisoning, while others wero not affected. The guinea pigs showed bodily degeneration. Expert Toxlcolorjltt Summoned. The situation became so ularmlug that Horace It, Walt, h brother of Wll-llnm Wll-llnm F. Walt, employed A. H. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, toxicologic expert, 'who came into promlnenco In New York by his demonstration de-monstration of how contact gunshot wounds could be determined. Ho conducted con-ducted n series of experiments In Ilellevue, shooting bullets Into corpsoB at long and short range In Illustration. Hamilton plunged Into the Investigation Investiga-tion on October 0. Ho took what little sugar was loft and analyzed It. HIh report was that he had discovered arsenic. He examined tho house from sleeping rooms to cellar and found the plumbing In good condition. Ho disposed entirely of tho ptoraalno poisoning theory by finding tho arsenic |