The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-22
From the Detroit Tribune, august Is. !
TRAGIC AFFAIR IN DETROIT

A most melancholy affair occurred Yesterday af
ternoon, on the West Side, in which woman and
mother of three children came to her death by poi
son-whether administered by her own hands or
by another remains to be shown.
As far as we can learn the circumstances. they
are as follows: In the early part of last week =
woman and her three small children arrived in tbis
CITY over the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad from
Racine. She gave her name as Mrs Hattie pufTar
ana stated that she had come here to Join her bus-
band one Frederick Puffer, painter
one was out OF money, and after remaining one
hlght with her children at the Union House, small
motel on west Water street, she was turned adrift
by the proprietor, as she had no means of nayinp
her accommodation. She and her little ones were
poorly clad, and had no baggage
In TINS strait their condition met the n6tice and
sympathy OF man, an agent for a house owner in
the est Division, who bid her 60 and seek shelter
IN a vacant house on the corner of Hnhharr ond
Desplaines streets, giving her at the same time a
niue money for her present needs and those of her
children.
The destitute family occupied the house three
nights, without article of furniture or haddinr
the children and their mother sleeping on the floor
W lthn this time it would appear She had Eonnd
Puiier, W no disavowed all connection with her.
esterday the attention Of the neighbors was
called to the poor creature living in condition of
extreme agony upon the floor, her frightened little
ones about her. Help was at once profferad and
several sought at once to alleviate the condition of
the !anIly. All Questions addressed to the sick
woman as to herself aud the cause of her illness
were 1utile. She seemed in extreme agony. asked
only for ice water, OF which she drank immode-
rateiy, and seemed grateful for the comforts Sc
cured by her visitors to the children Yesterday
afternoon she died
Coroner James being advised OF the death sum-
moned jury of inquest, and a pogt-faorten exami-
nation was held on the remains. This examip alton
developed the presence in the stomach of evidences
OF some active corrosive poison as the cause of
%eath, which the analasis to be performed will il
Is believed, show to be arsenic.
The appearance of the apartments occupied bv
the poor creature heart-sickening when
considered as home, the only home of a mother
ana her tenCer little ones, and it may be satisfacto-
rlly shown that the poor creature shrank from bat
tllng with her troubles and put an end to her life.
some circumstances however, point so strongly
TO another solution of the mystery, that Frederick
Puiier, painter by trade, and claimed by the wo.
man rs her husband, has been arrested and is now
IN custody to await the verdict of the Jury Puffer
denies that the woman is his wife, or that she has
any claim to his name.
Among the few effects in the poor woman's ms
session was found a letter which indicates taat her
name has been Giderov bv her former MARRIAGE
and tits said that Gideroy is in the Wisconsin
State prison.
Ihe Womans name was. according to the eviden-
ces IN this letter, Mrs. Hattie S0mers Gideroy,
Somers being her maiden name. She was appa-
rently about thirty years of age and had seen bet
ter days.