New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-10
WHO PUTPO1SON IN THE CUPi
YOUNG NORM DECLARED NOT GUILTY.
10 MOTIVE APPARENTLY COLLECTION TAKEN Up
TO AID THE BOY.

10 MOTIVE APPARENT-A COLLECTION TAKEN VI
TO AID rHK BOY.
George NORM who gav4 his age as sixteen years
lat looked younger, struggled in mixture OF
French and English words to clear himself yester
DAY before Judge Gdersleeve from a serious charge
Of poisoning He left his native city. Paris. in May
1855, as sailor on vessel of which his un Gle was
esster; The vessel was wrecked and the boy was vas
Transatantique line. A cook on the steamer in
troduced him on his arrival here last November Il
S.s keeper sT at SD asa
bartender and though be received no wages, his
food and clothing were provided.
Mr. and Mrs Calvert were the witnesses yester-
day against the boy. Calvert said that one morn
ing in January when he woke the boy from sleep,
Norm in getting ont OF bed dropped iet.ef. IN
which he asked his brother In Paris 10 send him
some sublimate of mercury NORM when asked for
IN explanation. SAID that he wished to use the
poisonous substance in some electrical experiments.
An envelope received from Paris on February IL
contained considerable quantity of the powder.
Calvert demonstrated with the boy and Norm took
Is ontOf the room and said that he had thr' wn IT
away. Mrs Calvert testified that after this occur
renee she saw some Of the same kind of powder in
ollar-bOX behind the bar and threw 1t away. She
continued in substance:
My husband was sick on February 2s. went down
stairs used to do when he sick and r,da cup
the table while some and down stairs
to mako toast George was In the bal room came
upstairs az lin and took the chocolate up to my husband
He drank some OF 1t aud soon oes an to voinit.
Calvert took what was in the cup to Police Cap
tain Copeland, who had it. analysed. when Cal
vert was asked what reason he could give Tor the
boys wishing to OOls0n him be said that ne nad
g. 700 in the house at the time and he thought the
boy wished to X III him mud run OF with the money.
Professor Elwyn Waller. of Columbia College,
who had aDalvzed the substance left III the choco-
late cup said that two ounces of 1t contained JOS
grams of sublimatc OF mercury and That IRON
three to five grains was "a fatal dose Assistant
Dstrict-Attorney Bedford then restei the case.
The boy called by his counsel Mr. Blake, IN
his own behalf He said that he wanted the subli-
mate of mercury to in some experiments and
had no money to buy II himself He described Win
great particularly the kind OF apparatus which he
wished TO make. He said that he had been en-
ployei in that business in Paris. He said that
when he was directed by Calvert to throw the
any knowledge of how the poison was placed in the
chocolate, but he described auarIels in the Cal
vert household.
Mr. Rupp a member of the jury panel of the
Court of General Sessions was asked by Mr. Blake
to testify. Tie said that he was in the business OF
manufacturing electrical apparatus. and that The
boys description of the method of maS'ng ma
chine was correct. Mr.. Blake ask ed tie jury to
give tie boy, whose manner decidedly IN his
favor the benefit of every 6oubt. He called atten-
tion 10 cases in which wives had been guilty of
poisoning their husbands TO obtain less sums OF
money than that owned by Calvert to spend with
others NORM almost Immediately acquitted
by the Jury. The third Juror rose and said that
he wOnl1 like TO do something for the boy who
he understood would now be without home. He
passed hat around and succeeded in collecting
nearly twenty dollars. his counsel refused to
take the money which was handed TO the boy and
received with much apparent gratitude. Mr..
Blake said hat he would endeavor to persuaHe
the French Consul to send back NORM TO his native
country a sbipwrecked sailor.
TRYING TO DROWN HIMSELF AND CHILD
DRIVEN INSANE by LACK OF WORK MAN JUMPS
INTO THE RIVER.
coatless man, whose haggard face was express
sive OF hunger and despair, walked to The foot OF
East wenty-thlrd-St. yesterday carrying IA pretty
little girl, tour ears age he chllds dress was
ciaan, bat raggei. She had Que arm about the
M M ID
p'ced back and forth on the dock 'or few mlnu Is
and then STOOD uea the edge, lookl e down into
the alter suddenly lie spranC INTO the river still
cldspIng his daughier To his breast. WILD scream
from the il followed by splash, attracted III
attention of Policeman Godrick. lie called loudly
for hep as he ran toward the pier from which the
man had ju ped. homaS Brennan. of No Ellzt-
be.n-st and John Kenny, of No. 81 Bay;
dragged the man and child OUT of the water, while
TIE icef sent for ambulance. The little gri
was laf clioked, hat she ooon r,vived AT bellevue
Hospital aud the surgeons thought that she had
not been injured seriously by the exposure and
fnFh.
Her fat her was recog lzed Otto lverson. a Nor
wegIan pcnttr. WHO lad been trea'ef for man
ity several W. ks ago. Loss of work IN the winter
aud his inability to IrOvI e for his wife and two
children had unsettled his mind. bn, he VS. 'ent
from the nosDI~il as "curcd m re than a
month ago. Mrs lv,r'ol had been try NJ 10 sup
y IT herself AM the children Og wash ng and Grub
bing tor rivate families. but II had ben reces aTy
to pawn may articles of clothing aud in ni,nIe.
lie fanIl lived III two rooms on tne top hp0r Of the
re n teucm ut Eols', No 800 last Tween y-nith-st.
After eaVl = the 'pita lv rson had not beeu 49,
10 ii ork ard the prosper of having 10 depend
GU his wife t,T SupLOr dove aim crazy again. She
lei HIM ~IIh little Mary yesterday morning Wien
she wen, TO work, taking her Youngest chi d 10
cay ulIserv. IL was not until she Te'urnch 10 her
rooms last evening well tlrei on that she heard
o. her n Ir1w escape from bereavement Her
0an. liter renal led IN te hOspl a.. a ID her aus
banu WIS KEEP there DIS a prisoner CHARGED With lu-
sanity and With atteIn Jting 10 commit suicide.
MORE FORGED BROOKLYN TAX RECEIPTS.
The AMOUNT SUPPOSED To BIZ INVOLVED - wno
WILL BIZ AIRES EDf
Other instances came TO light III brooklyn vester-
day i'll whicA ia p-yers hay" been Swlndifd by
means o. forged receISts Martin Bullwnkle, of
South NInth-st, tooA to the lax Office I'VE receipts
for take u ms property IN the 1--we NY fist
Ward III so4. and the sa e numUcr Tor 1850, COW
erug about $500. all OF which we've forgei, and no
entry which appears upon the books OF the Of
hce JOIN PuckhaDer wa, WITH hih and SAID the
taxes his property. which he supposed were
pMd, were not marked of on the
books. tie did EOt have nIs receipts with nln but
the amour Is several hundreds OF collars Both
men pad the money for their taxes 10 "a LAWYER.
LOUIS r. hyde, Of No. ~ Penn-s' who is the
nephew OF }. A. Hopper, the man whose attention
was first called 10 the fact that ais taxes were un-
paid Mr. Hyde made so satisfactory an explana-
non 10 CORPORATION Cuunse jerks OH Wednesday
night hat he was not de aimed. tie could not be
f0uno yesterday ~ his Office, No. lOA Chambers
ST. and 1t was said that be had gone out o. town.
1t is xpecred that other cases of forged receipts
for taxes will be round shortly, as many persons
are examining the II Is of property to be sold Tor
arrears of taxes TO see II there are any char2es |
again,t heir es stes. The city officials refused TO
ga YESTERDAY who was sos ected OF the rcer es
The investigation of the forged tax receipts thus
far shows that property owners have been deira I'D
Ell OF about %, 900 The officials of the Corporation
Couuses office say that the matter Is now out of
ther hands, and has been put in that OF the police
District Attorney Rdgway, has not been con-
suited III the matter of warrant. Detective |
Zuudt, who has been i'll frequent consultation with
CORPORATION Counsel jerks said Yesterday that
no warrant had been entrusted TO him. but he had |
been instructed to make arrest. He left the city |
last evening 20 to some place IN the interior oil
the State and expected to get back to-day.
VI he impression was gathered last evening that |