The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-10
II Tends to Deepen The ToOls PSis.
eniDS Case.
POLICE ARE STILL IN The DARK
They Have Nothing but Theories TO
Work Upon. but the Circumstances
Arc so Suspicious That They Feel
Justified In Holding the Children.

BOSTON, Nov. 10.-The excitement In
South Boston over the shocking double
poisoning case in the Toole family was IN
creased TO considerable degree last night
by the death of the father The curiosity
commonly exhibited in such cases is tenn
psred by widespread feeling OF sympathy
for all concerned In the iamentable affair
The police are exercising every bit Of in
genuity familiar To their vocation TO uu-
ravel the tangled skein. Theories on every
aspect of the case were innumerable, and
the police are working all Of them which
seem to give the least promise Of develop
ments.
There were but four OF the family present
at the bedside of ishe diving man when he
hreathed his last These were Joseph,
John, Patrick and Annie Stephen,
Michael and Minnie were confined at
station charged with the murder Of
the mother and Margaret, whose bodies
lie at the city hospital morgue. The
father passed away without knowing that
his wife and daughter had gone before. He
had been confined TO his bed for months
suffering from an incurable malady.
Wednesday night he hsd been watched by
his wife and daughter Margaret, and at 8
o'clock he fell off into a sound sleep. Dur
ing all the commotion which followed the
death of bis wife and daughter the father
slept on peacefully.
The Fatal Drink.
The aN-ahsorbIng theory in the case is,
How cid the poison get into the liquorS
Was IL put into the bottle after it was pur-
chased. or was il caused by some workings
in the liquid itself?
AS the police understand II, the bottle
of stout was purchased by Michael, who
took IL home and gave Ii TO Minnie in an
Intact condition. Minnie, in turn, without
opening it, took il up TO her mother and
Margaret, and then left the room.
That is the last known of the bottle
until one of the family, alarmed by the
outcry made by Margaret when her mother
fell to the floor ran 10 the room In which
they were and found the bottle, about one.
third full, standing on the table.
The captains desk at station bears
witness 20 the strength of tho poison as
when the bottle was brought 20 the station
small portion Of II was spilled on the
desk. and the mark made by IL as il
strcamed along is plainly TO be seen yet.
1t Is authoritatively stated that the evil
dence which the police have gathered is
not OF sufficient strength TO connect two
Of the parties under arrest with any crime
The station o officers do. however, place
some credence in the evidence which they
have accumulated against one OF the
three. Even the evidence In this party's
case is said TO be OF a very fiimsy character.
Some time yesterday two officers went
TO the home OF the Tooles and IL is sa d
searched Minutes truak. What the search
was for and what information was CLEANED
from the contents thereof they refuse to
divrlge.
Rumors of Family Troubles.
A report which gained wide circulation
in regard to the unfortunate affair was to
the effect that one of the sons, 1t is not
stated which, had been threatened by the
parents, because Of certain family matters.
with dlsinheritance, and that this trouble
caused some hard feeling in the family.
This report, however, is Indignantly de-
MED by the most intimate friends OF the
family. who assert that it is but the con-
coction of some idle gossip.
A theory which has many supporters is
that that fatal bottle contained some
poison before liquor was put into il. The
idea Is that in the brewery where this
liquor Is put up there Is used some deadly
poison and that o quantity Of this poison
was placid in one of these bottles, and
that some careless employe Of the estab-
lishment In filing the bottles poured
liquor in the bottle containing the poison;
that it was then stoppered and labelled
and sent away.
Mr.. Walker, from whom the porter was
purchased, says that he sold mauy bottles
of this liquor from the same Tot in which
the fatal bottle came and heard no COM
plants
II was learned az a late hour last night
that DIR. Whipple, who attended Mr. Toole
in his last moments. refused TO grant a
death certificate on the demise of Mr.
Toole. DIR. Draper will hold an autopsy
on the body OF Mr.. Toole.