New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-06
RUMORs ABOUT THE DEATH OF MRS. BOYD.
PRONOUNCED by MR.. CRAWFORD AND HIS WIFE TO
BE TISSUE OF LIES.

RUMORS ABOUT THE DEATH Of Mho. DoiD'
PRONOUNCED by Mr. CRAWFORD AND HIS WIFE TO
BE TISSUE OF LIES.
James Crawford was seen yesterdao by TRIBUNE
reporter who talked with him about, the published
report coming from Freeport, L. J., Of the
death OF bis moth sisa .,S M; T. a. =,
Smith Island. near Freeport. on July "a. The re-
port stated that Mrs. Boyd had died In a miserable
given her. and that the funeral arrangements were
not fitting for person OF her means A
theory Of poisening was advanced 9",hpg
body after several days and the fact that Mr. Craw-
ford had purchased, at freebort drugstore on
July 9, half an ounce tincture OF opium ana
ford signed the name "E. G. Boyd. Md" to the
prescription. No traces OF poison were found
bottles wers found in the hut and regarded with
suspicion. 1t was also stated that the body ap-
peared TO be bruised
Mr.. Crawford said that the report was tissue OF
lies. Mother to the island. said he, " 10 stay
a fe days and some land i had bought.
She preferred staying at the hut to being aboard
tue Yacht. Ny wife, her daughter, was With her.
also have slept ia the hut. and II IS not so unin-
habtable they would make out. The delay III teie-
graphing aud the storm which prevented my yacht
from reaching there, explain some OF the delay
which the report calls neglect.
Now, as to the drugs, / am suffering and have
been for years from the Chagres fever. and have
been taking for long time the mixture which
bought. have some of II here now, aud bought
that on Long Island because L was short OF the
as that il the name you see over the door OF my
store and IL is better known than mine. MIS-. Boyd
died from a cold to which sne was susceptible.
being native of the West Indies. She was large
woman, and had been weakened by an abseess IN
her back. The reason the body kept 80 well was
simply because il was on ice. The marks sup
posed to be bruises l presume were the scars
made by q blister which my wife and another
woman applied As for the woman from
whom am divorced, and who furnished part OF this
report will only say she came here to-day and my
wife ordered her away" ,
meDt and said that her husband had always treated
her mother kindly and his soiictude Tor her had
been commented on by their neighbors.
Coroner CIonin, who neld the Inquest received
the following letter from DIR. Denton, of Freeport,
who made pOst-mortem examination OF the bDdy
FREEroKT, July 81, 1883.
My DEAR SIR: According TO your instructions DIR.
Hammond and ysef Ia We peted the autopsy upon
the bcdy OF Mrs Boyd nee Kennedy. We nd one kidney
TO have been OF fat and completely dis0rgali,
ized but That must have been OF long stand hg, ana
dsore kidney opening into or upon the back,
about inches from the bone, probably the result
of death. The heart and internal organs were IN
healthy condition. excepting the bronchial tubes which
slightly diseased The stomach tained about one
any vegetable poison was used except by anayss Ia
short the result Of the postmoriem taken as whole
bruse iust below the sh0uder-bade, and n we could
exclude probability OF vegetable poison or Others
think neither DR.. Hammond nor myself would have any
nesitation In saying there strong belief that the
OF the bruse was intimately associated VITA the
cause OF death. j. H.b. DENTON, NJ ~.
Tue stomach and liver are still in the possession
of DIR Denton and at the meeting of the Board of
On Ancust ia Coroner Cronin will ask
for an appropriation TO have an analysis made, an
if it is granted he will then ask the Supreme Court
to set aside the verdict and reopen the case.