The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-01-10

Terrible Case of lestitution.

Several mouths ago Mrs. Anna Boone
and the family, consisting of two boys and
two girls, hired apartments on the floor of
a now tenantless house, No. 90 Amty
place, located near the corner of Blocker
street. Tue family appeared very re-
spectacle and unusual Intelligence, and
seemed in point of responsibility far above
the average of those who generally seek
lodgings in tenement-houses. Mrs.
Boone, who was somewhat of an invalid
anu was nuuwu 10 tue otner residents OF
the house as q widow, was very distant
and retiring in her manners, as were also
her children, and made few scquaintances
among those who dwet with her under
the same roof. The children we're we'll
behaved and intelligent, aud appeared to
be much better educated than those with
whom they were surrounded Notwith-
standing the air of culture aud refinement
possessed by this family they appeared to
be very poor indeed, and it was noticed
that they received no visitors. The Cos
slipping neighbors set the new corners
down as family suddenly reduced from
wealth to poverty, and who had been for
some reason or other abandoned by their
relatives and friends.
This was mere conjecture, however, as
Mrs. Boone made no contidanies, and paid
little or no attention to the various ru-
mors floating about among the rest of the
tenants as to her forlorn condition aud
Der antecedeuts. The advent Of this fam
lily was nine days wonder to her neigh.
bors, and the gossips finding no food for
their surmises and conjectures, let the
matter drop to seize on another and more
fertile subject. 1t was, however, noticed
that the family gradually assumed more
poverty-stricken appearance, and the lean
and haggard countenauces of the mother
and children were seen fitting by in leav-
ing or entering the house. So matters
proceeded until yesterday morning when
an event occurred which has created an
intense excitement in the ueighborhood,
being no less than an attempt by Mrs.
Boone to terminate the existence of her,
self children by poison. 1t appears
that during Saturday night strange and
peculiar sounds we're heard proceeding
from the apartment occupied by the Boone
family. This somewhat alarmed the ten
ants in the house, as heretofore quiet had
reigned there supreme. These noises con-
tinued all night, and at 2 o'clock yester-
day, MIR. Boardmsn, who resides on one
of the lower floors of the house, convin,
ced that something was wrong, determined
to investigate the matter. He went out
into the street. and finding Officer Race of
the Fifteenth Precinct patsolling through
Amity street, he called him and Informed
him of his suspicious Officer Race at
once proceeded to the house, and, ascend
ing to the room occupied by the Boone
family, raped for admission. Receiving
no answer and finding the door locked the
officer burst in the door, and there found
the whole family-Mrs. Boone, with her
four children, Daniel, aged 10; Grace,
aged IL Marcella, aged II, and Will
liam, aged Gall lying on the floor appar-
emily writhing in the agonies of DEATH
AS it was supposed that the famil, were
Frustrated by coal gas, Officer Race OBJ
tanned the assistance of Officer Gillen aud
the sufferers carried into tho front room.
Two physicians we're Immediately sum-
moned, and, after examining the family,
decided that they were suffering from the
effects Of some narcotic poison. The usu-
al remedies were applied, and by advice of
physicians the whole family were convey.
ed in carriages to Bellvue hospital. On
the way to the hospital, Mrs. Boone re-
covering sufficiently, Officer GiIleu ques-
toned her about what had occurred, when