The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-18
Mxstarions Death.

Mysterious Death.
Coroner Hibberd went to Pemberton, on
Thursday, in response to telegram an
nouncing the death of woman supposed
to be the wife of William Bloom. The
circumstances attending the case were
such as to be deemed worthy of official in
vestigation.
The coroner found the body in house
near the South PembertoR station. Will
about halfpast seven on Wednesday
morning, leaving the woman apparently
as well as ever. When he came home at
night he found her sick in bed, attended
by his sister, who had come in during the
day, and found the woman sick in bed.
The sister. Sadie, stayed at the house an
til death ensued, which was on Thursday.
During almost the entire illness the wo-
man was delirious. DR.. Hollingshead was
in attendance, but he was unable to ascer
tain the cause of illness and the woman
was not in a condition to give him any in
formation. The symptoms we're those of
poisoning, but there was nothing about the
house containing poison nor had there
been, according to the inmates.
When coroner Hibberd arrived he
questioned the man who said he had
lived in the house about month, coming
from Camden. He told Mr.. Hibberd he
did not remember when the marriage oc-
Cured or who performed the ceremony.
The coroner went home and returned
on Friday. He questioned Bloom little
closer, and then the latter admitted he
had never married the woman, whose
real name was Mary E. Norwood, aged 81
years. He had brought her to Pemberton
from Philadelphia, where she lived at 440
st. John street, disreputable locality. 1t
was also discovered that Bloom had been
paying attention to girl who did not ia
vor his suit. and he brought the woman to
live with him to spite the other girl.
DR.. Hollingshead had made postmor-
tenn examination of the woman's body.
He found the organs in a normal condi-
ton, death resulting from peritonitis, the
cause of which he was unable to ascertain
If there was poison it would require a
chemical analysis to discover it, and the
stomach was removed and sent to Shippen
Wallace, the state chemist
The coroner decided to empanel jury
and await the result of Mr.. Wallace's eff |
forts. He selected the following: An
thony ]. Morris, John H. Antrim, Isaac
Budd, William w. Lippincott, William II.
Bishop, Alfred I. DAYS. WINS DAVIS.
They viewed the body and then adj
journed to await the summons of the cor
oner
On Saturday Coroner Hibberd went to
Philadelphia and Investigated the pre-
vious life of the dead woman He found |
she was married in December, 1887, to
William Kreitzer, of Frankfort, Pa. She
gave the name of Effie Hines. Kreitzer
met her where he was boarding, and
where she was acting as domestic. They
lived happily together until about three
years ago, when Kreitzer, on returning
home on Christmas evening" found his
wife had gone. They never lived together
again, although he frequently visited her
at houses in St. John street, where she
went when she left him.
The woman had several names, viz:
Mary Adams, Mamie Adams, Fife Hines,
Emma Curtin. Mary Kreitzer and Mary
E. Norwood. Her life was insured for
$243, under the name of Mary Kreitzer,
her husbands mother having kept the
premiums paid. The old lady had heard
nothing of the woman from the time of
her disappearance.
Just before leaving for Pemberton with
Bloom, the woman took out another life
insurance policy for 5000. She told Bloom
that she and sister in Baltimore were
the only two children of family of 10.
The coroner found that there is sister
in Baltimore, whom he at once notified.
Coroner Hibberd found that the woman
had been in the Philadelphia House of
Correction for three weeks, and had
served in the Reformatory for women at
She was also in the Penn
sylvania Hospital not long SINCE under
treatment for malaria. The body was
buried on Saturday, but it will possibly be
disinterred that Identification may be
made complete to secure the insurance