The sun., 1893-12-08
PERHAPS SHE WAS STARVING
MRS scHlUEBER DIED FROM EATINq
BREAD sMEhRED WIN RAT POISON

She Had Eaten Little Else nsr Several DAYS
snd Hsr I.srdlsdy Tkinks the wonan
May Not Have Meant 90 KIN Herself
Mrs. Lena Schaueber, % years old Of PIG
East Eleventh street. died in Bellevue Hos
pital at 1880 o'clock last evening. The
woman applied at the hospital for treat
ment yesterday morning. She told the doc
tors that she had taken dose OF rat poison.
As Mrs Schsueber refused to give any eKplana-
tlon Of the affair. there seems to be consider
able doubt ss to whether she really tried to kill
herself or not Mrs Miller, the landlady at
21o, Is as much In the dark as any one about
the matter. She says that Mrs Schaueber ate
some bread which was covered with rat poison.
and that the woman knew the bread was poi
soned when she ate II.
MIRA Miller says that about m onth ago the
Bchaueber woman and her husband. who said
he was COOK. rented room at 2l9 and paid
smonth's rent in advance. Two weeks ago
the couple left without saying anything to the
lsndlsdy. and few days later an expressman
called and took away their trunks. As the
room had boen paid for. Mrs. Miller made no
objection. although she wondered what was
the matter. She heard nothing more OF the
missing boarders until last Friday m9rplng.
Miller had heard any thing about his wife. The
man said that they had gone to Visit some rola-
tives Atew day atterwar b Is wife m mysterious.
ly disappeared and he couldn't Imagine what
had become NJ her. He said that Mrs SC haue-
ber had taken all the money they had and
that he didn't have n cent In the world When
Mrs. Mi iller said she had seen nothing OF Mrs.
bchaueLer, the man went away again.
Eeceive a call from the missing woman Mrs.
schaueber told a tale similar to that told by
Mr.. schnueber had disappeared on the Friday
SyGE Es SsnS M GGs rs Tnsy sly With ssS cond n%
stay in the house until sho was able to lind
her husband or to get work. TO this the land
lady consented, On "Wednesday Mrs. Schaue:
hungry She offered to, work for her hoard,
and Mrs. Miller gave her some breakfast.
bad tasen up their auaTtors in Mrs; Mi:
threw number Of pieces ~ b,cad which we're
eprinkled with rat poison Int" the cellar.
Men III" npt the Tread in IT," ,T cellar at night
Ing, so that her dog would not Kill himself by
eating the poison On Wednesday morning
the cellar. and concuded that perhaps the rats
bad eaten 1t all Later in the day, however.
bread from behind the wood box. Mrs:
scLausRsr Wns ; in the kitchen h Ht the time and
eaten It IT would probably have Killed him.
1t won't hurt any one replied Mrs. Schaue-
Der, for I've eaten q lot myself"
When the landlldy had recovered from her
astonlshmen she forced tho supposed poison
Mrs. schaueber became violently III. Mrs. Mil
Ter went 10 q drug store and told the clerk about
Il. II the woman took rat poison this m ming
and isn't dead yet. he said Il guess there there
some medicine to take to tn" sick woman
Yesterday morning Mrs. Miller .succeedeI in
finding doctor. The latter advised that Mrs.
Bcheueber be taken to Bellevue Hos spital. and
the landlady accompanied her there.
When the doctors ut the hospital heard what
was the trouble they resoltrd to heroic meth
ods and notified the police about the case. The
police promptly placed Mrs. Schaueber under
priest The authorities are much puzzled.
however. as to whether or not the woman took
the poison Intentionally. Mrs. Miller said that
As she had warned the servants ut 2l9 that
have known ii. Still che thinks that possibly
the woman was only hungry after all. and ate
the bread rather than ask Tor another cal.