, 1885-09-06
POISON FOR THREE.
A Beautiful Young Lady is
Killed by an Accident.
Fearful Result of a Druggists
Bad Mistake.
Gov, Hoadley, of Ohio, Makes a
Ringing Speech.
Hoboken's Sad Tragedy

room OF . magnificent and luxurious
house in this city a young lady lay dead
yesterday. Near her, her sisters
younger, but equally charming, was how
ering over the narrow border-land between
life and death. Not a block away a drug
gist, maddened by his fatal error. was
struggling under the effects OF the poison
he had taken. while the dead girls sweet
heart, the very man who had prescribed
for her, and her parents were utterly pros
trated by their sudden loss.
c. +. Holtz and his family live at No.
go, Hudson street. He is an importer
of wines, doing business in New York
City. Marguerite, their eldest child, is a
brunette of 10 whose slight, though we'll
moulded figure has graced many n ball
room. They called her Gretchen at
home in their fond German way. Her
sister Ella is three years younger than
Gretchen, a blonde, whose debut into
society was about to take place. Then
there is another girl. Title, and a young
ster Of o, a boy, Walter.
The family returned from the Cats
kills on Saturday, but Miss Gretchen"
and Miss Ella did not seem to have bene-
flied by their summering. The two young
ladies had a malarial fcver-now hot, now
cold, now shivering. now warm. Naturally
they sent for DIR. August Lowenthal, who
is Miss Margue rites accepted suitor.
DR.. August Lowenthal went to see his
fiancee on her arrival, but he could not
then induce her to take medicine. She
laughed at her ailment He grew serious
and urged and urged her to go under his
treatment. His arguments convinced her.
He went around the corner to C. Am
Ende's drug store, at Washington and
Seventh streets, and wrote a prescription
for three grammes ofmuriate of quinia.
DR.. Lowenthal carried the medicine
back to Miss Holtz, directed her and her
sister how to take it, kissed his sweetheart
good night and vent to his home. TWAS
the last kiss she ever gave him.
Both Miss Marguerite aud Ella took a
teaspoonful at 10 o'clock and then retired.
Miss Marguerite was aroused by her
younger sisters stentorous breathing. She
tried to arouse her, shook her again and
again. Ella did not hear her shouts, did
not heed her cries. She awoke her
father. He sent directly for young DIR.
Lowenthal.
Lowenthal came and was frightened. 1t
looked like poisoning by opium to him,
but he had prescribed quinine and had
seen the prescription put up. Besides,
his sweetheart had taken the same dose
as Ella, and there was his sweetheart all
right. The case puzzled Lowenthal. He
directly called physicians in consultation.
He sent for DIR. Hans Kudlich, No. 1874
Hudson street, whom everybody in Hobo
ken knows. He sent for DR.. William T.
kudlich and DR.. Fisher, DIR, Kudlich
looked at Elias contracted pupils. listened
to her breathing, felt her small fiuttering
pulse and said it was a case of opium
poisoning. or Of poisoning by the active
principle of opium. morphia. DR.. Low
enthal few around to Am Ende's drug
shop and nearly dragged the bell out in
his desperate hurry. Am Ende came
down, opened the door and lit the gas.
Lowenthal told him OF his dreadful sus-
picion. Am Ende turned confidently,
took down the bottle that he had filled the
prescription from and looked at the label
The bottle fell to the floor with n crash.
Am Ende's face turned as white as the
crystalline powder that was scattered
around and that foatcd through the still
air.
'Merciful Cod he shrieked. its
morphia.
The doctor rushed back to Holtz :. 1t
was getting toward morning. The doc
tors started by treating Miss Ella for
morphine poisoning, and they sent to New
York for DIR. Conrad to help them. They
gave Ella antropine and %caffein, antidotes
to morphia, hypodermically and to keep
her from falling to sleep, the sleep of
death, they shocked her with an electric
battery.
Al this time Miss Marguerite was
helping the physicians. Their skill was
useless in one case, and despite antidotes,
despite all resources of medicine, Miss
Marguerite died. About : O'Clock she
she had a co%nvulsion. Her awful strug-
giles ceased. She opened her eyes, tried
to raise her hand toward her parents and
the man who was to have been her hus-
bann, and passed away. His father led
young DIR. Locwenthal from her bedside,
led him like a man walking IN his sleep,
dazed, stunned, ~dumiounded, to his
home. There he lay all day yesterday.
HIS brother said that he was utterly in
capacitated.
The physicians, impelled by the parents
grief, tried all the harder to save Ella S
life. 1t began to look as If they would
succeed. One victim of the tragedy APP
peared to be safe when the news Of the
peril of another startled all Hoboken.
@. Am Ende, the druggist, is a scientif-
ic chemist as well. lie is known all over
the country for antiseptic dressing for
wounds that he invented, an aid in Prof
Listers Of Edinburg, plan Of operating.
He has had a drug store in Hoboken for