| Show POISON SUSPECT POISONS HERSELF 1 I A 1 7 1 I VE ULL D c lm r L' L I m. m lt WOMAN PRISONER OUTWITS Sprinkles Sprinkles From From Box on oh Eggs S Served Her Herfor Herfor Herfor for Luncheon HER CONDITION CRITIC CRITICAL L Chicago Authorities Striving to Solve Mystery of Death of Policeman Bissonette i ll By International News Service r Nov 4 Eluding 4 Eluding the the vigilance I C CHICAGO lance of or the detectives s and and nurses as assigned to guard her Mrs 1 Louise charged with the murder oCher of oC her boar hoarder boarder er Policeman Arthur Bissonette Bissonette Bisson Bisson- ette cUe by means of poison polson was taken suddenly and violently ill III at her homo home East gast TW Twenty ninth street this afternoon aft aft- erno n. n and Is declared to have hie poisoned herself She is critically ill III She asked for or hard boiled eggs egg when luncheon time was due and when the eggs were served to her Insisted upon having white pepper to put Pitt on them thorn Sho She is declared to have directed one of her attendants to a n certain pepper box In the pantry h she asserted contained contained con con- tamed a n fine Cine grade of oC pepper Taking this box in her hand she carefully sprinkled part of oC thc tho contents on one end of oC tho the C eggs and when shen It was wa liberally lib crall coated at ate the egg as calmly as asIf asIf asif If It were an er c every day occurrence Within a few minutes she was taken violently ill and an examination of ot the popper pepper box disclosed the fact tact that It contained rat poison polson of ot which a large percentage e was arsenic As soon as Mrs OIls became nauseated and began to vomit Dr Dr Van Arsdale Aradale was summoned an and the tho pepper pepperbox pepperbox pepperbox box was taken by one of or the tho detectives to a druggist in the neighborhood Hasty anal analysis by the druggist Continued on Two Tuo I WOMAN PRISONER OUTWITS GUARDS Sprinkles Arsenic From Pepper PepperBox PepperBox PepperBox Box on Eggs Served Her Herfor Herfor Herfor for Luncheon Continued From Prom n e On One show showed cd that rat poison polson and not pepper tilled filled th tho box Hastening hack buck to tho the fL home homo the tue detective told Dr Van an van Arsdale and the tho latter later summoned two other physic physicians Inns for fOI consultation Alt All Al agreed ed that hat Mrs tirs displayed dis dis- played symptoms of ot violent arsenical poisoning and prescribed antidotes Heroic efforts cHorla were brought Into pia play to counteract the effect of or the tue poison she sho had taken but the only Information tion which waR wan vouchsafed b by an any of oC the tho physicians was an Mrs frs Vermilya is a Y very r sick Ick woman wom worn Kl it mn If I everything which Is declared to have taken place tod today proves to b tIC hA correct then Mrs case Is 15 Isone Isone one of oC the most remarkable In tho the history his his- tory lory of ot crime J livery Every famous crIminologist the world has hUI ever known n bus 1118 assorted that the time female offender Is more to be than the time male Moreover r It I Is agreed that the offender male or fe female female fe- fe e emale male who ho Is deranged ed or subject to some sort oC of mania IR Is more subtle In his hl or 01 her cunning than an any other otha criminal criminal Mrs Ir delight ht In time the presence presence pres pre ence of death as evinced by her hem apparent apparent apparent ent pleasure when handling dead hod bodies los Is now believed to have been a n sort of oC monomania which may explain the whole series of or deaths that have hov occurred In her hem Immediate vicinity One pol police co official who ha has been active ac ac- ac- ac lye tive in the Investigation of Arthur Ills BIs- Ds- Ds death declared declarEd several verl days ago that he lie would not cat a A bite bie of or food rood or drink a n drop of or liquid In Mrs Irs Vermilya's house under any circumstances circum- circum stances Efforts to gain admittance to the a house today especially l after aCel Mrs Irs Vermilya wn was na taken so l lill ill J ii proved una aln unavailing It J was known early carT in iii th the day that she was wad suffering suffer stiffer ln ing from froni a bad cold colI Dr Van Arsdale who ha has been at attending attending attending at- at tending her hor de declared larel that she at first firs appeared to be e threatened with pneumonia monia but was much better beter and sh she was v bel believed ell to be bo on the high rOll roiti I to 10 en entire rc t recovery Mrs had already alread retained Joseph M. M 1 Burres Durrs the attorney who WilO defended dc de- de- de fended tended Dr Ial to defend de lie- fend end her and so HO o long as the authorities H had bad knowledge c of ot the presence o of oC arsenic In rh nit body bOry of or the chances for tor a bitter blUer legal tIght fight w were vere re bright brIght Permitted to 0 n Papers But Dut Mrs has been permitted I to read all al of or the newspapers and ron ion on- on learned ll this morning that tha I Cook county officials ha had ady started to exhume the tho body of Smith who died In her hou house e after aCer an lUnch illness of oC two days ays Incidentally It I was prominently men men- toned that Dr Van Yan Arsdale who ha has haR been attending Mrs is largely large large- tJ t- t J ly 13 responsible lou for the Investigation In Into the time death of oC Arthur Bissonette If I Mrs Irs Is gui guilty of the crimes of oC which she Is IR suspected ant antof and of oC one of oC which she has hns been accused It is believed that both hoth of oC these thes items Item of ot Information would have havea a depressing effect upon her Three mysterious bottles bolies were found today In a clo closet ct of a n room town formerly oc oc- oc oc- oc b by Arthur One o ot of them Is declared to have contained chloroform and n all al three were v turned over o er examination to Coroner Hoffmans Hoffman's Horman's office fo for tor This er discovery was sas seized upon by Mrs jIrs rs family and other defenders de- de de lie- tenders fenders as an nn Indication that cite otic te lied had had committed suicide I standing tIme the fact that hl lila his ex ext extended ex- ex I t tended over a known n period of oC at least leas st I three weeks cek Knowledge e of the tho e exhuming t of or th the lie hOd body of oC Richard Smith and oth others s 's who Wll died mr mysteriously however ml might ht have bare n c thrown a different light on tl tIme the case ase Tile Tue chances for or proving proving- that ono one ont committed suicide would ordinarily b be better beter than titan proving that seven ven or eight pr persons ons did ld the time same thing lung Mrs rs Dorothy Doroth Smith estranged wife o of Richard Smith tOda today tol told Detective Roy that hunt when site she came to Chicago following the death of her husband hus bus band Mrs frs acted stran strangely oh Mrs Irs Smith told me that Mrs Irs Vermilya Vermil- Vermil ya a insisted upon remaining remaining- In the room with wih the hod bod body of oC Smith saM said Hossler and amid she also said that her husbands husband's death appeared r very suspicious to lo cl et cr 1 |
