The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-26
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Little Jimmy who, fortunately for him on tn al
unlucky SUNDAY evening had been fed so bountfully
on turkey and cranberry sauce that there only
room enough left tor morsel OF the pie. has en-
ut Fortunate" said the reporter that the little
fellow didn't take more Of the pastry or il would
have gone hard with him.
yes sir; the Lord was above us in that at all
events, replied Mr.. Midway, as he cast his eyes
devoutly heavenward
wife had more narrow escape from death than even
tho attending physician had admitted. ON Saturday
uxa N tna IL e had not been for
q powder administered by DIR. O'Reilly in the morn.
ing OF that day she would have certainly died az
about the same hour that the death OIL MI ueorso
Wheeler occurred.
POSSIBLY ANOTHER CASE.
DIR. Miller, who, with his partner. Dr. u heliys
treated the Mulvays, said that he had heard OF no
now cases the kind, but that boy III forty-,niru
street had been under his care for week WIN eA
actly the same symptoms rs the Muivays ana was
not vet out of danger. Sngularly enough, ne hau
not been able to find out what the cause OF the SICK
ness was but from certain circumstances.
and from the coincidence of time and symp-
toms he thought very probably the boy had eaten
pastry from Schinkels. lie would not make any
such statement however, as there was no direct evil
dence of it. The boy, whose name he would not
give as he does not wish him to De disturbed whie
he is still dangerously ILL., is about fourteen years
Old and is an orphan. He lives with relatives and
works for himself. being allowed to use his earn-
lnes as pocket money. "He is somewhat indepen-
dent said the Doctor. boys of about fourteen
are apt to be, and objects to being questioned.
Neither / nor the family have been able to learn
whether he bought any pastry just before being
sick or not. but they know that he does buy such
things commonly"
very freely with the reporter yesterday. He
said that since the unfortunate affair had come to
of copper utensils and had substituted tin enameed
He was utterly at loss to account for the
presence of any injurious or poisonous matter in
his pies especially Of his regular customers,
young lady, had come into the store only yester-
day and told him that she had bought one of bis
meringue pies on the memorable Saturday and that
her family had eaten heartily of it and none of them
were sick. "And what's more" she added. I'm
going to buy more of those pies We are not afraid
Mr.. Schinkel. who has done and is still doing
prosperous business, says that he has been ut his
copper kettles, cas- all other bakers do" He had
never considered them dangerous IL properly used,
and had always cautioned his workmen specially
to keep them clean and not to allow anything to
stand long in them. He said the reason they were
used not simply that they were very durable and
not easily broken. but that in boiling sugar copper
was almost the only substance that would stand the
great heat.
AN EXPLANATION.
As to the making Of the merngue pies. he said he
had already given the recipe (which was published
in the HERALD yesterday, and explained the dis.
DR.. O'Relly. To the latter he said he favored the
pies with oil of lemon, and this he now says was
mistake. He discovered, after saying this. that on
the day in question there oil OF lemon (which
iavoring commonly used) in the shop, and
vanilla extract was used instead. This extract he
declared he knew be pure because he prepared it
on the premises from the vanilla beans and used
nothing but French spirits and water. He seemed
deeply affected when he told that eight addi-
tional had been discovered during the day. but
could only say that he did not understand it.
Mrs. Wheeler and her niece now considered
ont of danger although they still suffering from
the effects Of the poison. Miss Julia Wheeler. who
has had such terrible struggle for life, while not
pronounced by her physicians absolutely out OF
danger far improved yesterday to be able
to take some which had prescribed Although
the crisis may be considered past. it will be
long time before the poisonous effects will be
petely eradlcated from the system In conversation
with the reporter yesterday Dr. Purdy would not
commit himself to what he thought would result
from the chemical analysis to be made of the piece
of pie which has been saved but said in view Of
what has occurred within the past few days. he would
not be astonished if even more cases were discov-
cred.