The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-07
POISON ZEI2H!I .:F[!0lD.
A Terrible Deed Committed by
58'St anew Domestic
IN A CHICAGO FAMILY
shc Puts Hat Poison III tho Vlctunls
and Two People Die from, tho
Enccts-shc Is Supposed XIII
l8.i.., To DO Insane. i553

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night, slender girl with a pallid face
and brown curly hair, came TO the An
chorage Mission on Third avenue, and
asked that she might remain thero until
she could ;tiud work. She was accom-.
panied by Charles Wallace, a member Of
the editorial statr OF the Arkansap Trar.
eter, who told Matron Snyder that he had
found tho girl wandering aimlessly
about the streets. The homeless stranger
remained at tho mission one night. She
said her name was Emma Stark, and
that her homo was in Lafayette, Ind,
where her father, mother, brother and
uncle had died suddenly Of quick con.
sumption. She seemed so Intelligent
and sincere that Ma.ron Snyder gladly
accepted the girl as n charge.
ltiwas evident, however, that the
stranger was bewildered or laboring uu-
der suppressed excitement. She talked
coherently. but queerly about myste-
rious woman who had been watching
her, and trying to get her TO enter one
Of the disreputable houses in the south
division. .eT EIIEp
A PLACE SECURED FOR HER.
When morning came a nickel was
given to the sirlfor transportation on the
cable train, and also note to Mrs. Geo.
Newland, who was the wife OF a wealthy
retired real estate dealer, and who had
applied at the mission for II good scr.
want. Emma reached the home OF the
Newland's about noon. She did not
prepare. the dinner. While she was
cooking the supper sho complained of a
terrible toothache, and borrowed some
money from Miss Grace Ncwland to get
a bottle OF oil OF cloves. She threw a
shawl over her head ran across the street
to a drug store, and boughta package OF
rat poison. Then she returned to the
kitchen and resumed her cooking. 1t is
probable that theGirl dumped the poison
into the canned corn which was to be
served, for within, an hour alter, the
dishes were removed from the table the
entire family was seized with excrucia.
ting pains. = ~, -
Dr.. Crutchcr, who was summoned,
said the, sufferers had been poisoned.
Mr.. Newland died in awful, agony at 8
o'clock yesterday morning., His wife
died few hours later. Miss Newland
and her brother will probably recover.
When Mr.. Newland fell upon the floor
IN his first paroxism OF pain the new
servant girl fled in the tennis cap aud
dingy ulster she had worn to the house.
She could not be found until i o'clock
this afternoon, when Detectives Nc
Donald and Tichorn saw her staring
blankly at the stage in the Park The
atre. @jli'S lG, =3.1t
One Of the officers walked down the
center aisle and escorted the girl out OF
the play house. , She made no resistance.
She denied that he name was Emma
starke, or that she had ever visited the
Anchorage Mission. &fSL
r. .{iI TIE SAME STRANGE STORY.
Then speakine.rapidly, with musical
voice, she ratified OF her story about the
mysterious woman who had been follow
ing her and the sudden death OF her rel.
atives. When she reached the steps OF
the Anchorage Mission she asked the
officers why she should enter a strange
house. Matron Sny der came to the door
and extended her, hand, exclaiming as
she did so: "Poor Emma, you remem-
Der me, don't you?n The girl stared at
the woman with blank amazement. Then
she extended her hand in @ mechanical
way, and asked il there was any work
for her to do in the house. "a:
Mre. Snyder and three other women
in the mission identified the prisoner rs
Emma Stark. During this ordeal the
girl smiled pleasantly and obeyed all the
commands. Four women searched her
PclotHng, but no poison was found. The
prisoner is in a cell at the Central sta.
ton. She is lSyears old. 1t is believed
that she is insane. The most skillful
questioning could not refresh her mind
as to. the events OF yesterday. The girl
even denies that she ever saw Mr.. New.
lands house.