Connecticut western news., 1893-11-16
POISONED PORTER.
TWO MYSTERIOUS DEATHS INAsos-
 TON FAMILY.
Mrs. Tbola and Daughter Drank of the stufr and Died Almost Together, While the Invalid Father Was Killed by the Shock-Children Under Arrest.

Stuff and Died Almost Together, While
 the Invalid Father Was Killed by the
 shock-Children Under Arrest.
 BOSTON, Nov. 10.-The wife and daugh- ter, Margaret, of John J. Toole of South Boston drank part of bottle of porter and dropped dead almost instantly. A post mortem examination revealed the fact that they had swallowed enough cyanide of potassium to have killed 10 persons. Two sons and daughter have been arrested, charged with the murder, but the evidence which the police have thus far secured against them is not strong.
 Last night MT. Toole learned for the first time of the death of his wife and daughter, and in a few minutes he, too, was dead. The shock killed him. Another daughter is lying at deaths door, and the chances are against her recovery.
 The scene of the tragedy Is SS West Third street, South Boston. Mir. Toole is piano polisher and had lived in that house nearly 30 years.
 The Fatal Porter.
 He had reared family of five sons and three daughters and had acquired prop erty worth about S20000. He was one of the most respectable citizens in that part of the town. His wife had been i'll for some time, and in accordance with her phy- sician's orders had been in the habit of drinking glass of porter every night be- fore retiring. Wednesday night she asked her daughter Mary to give her son Michael some money to purchase bottle of porter.
 The lad went to George Walkers liquor store and procured it. Mary Toole met him at the foot of the stairs and carried the bottle to her mothers room.
 1aI Ia broke the seal, uncorked the bottle and poured out small glass for her daughter Margaret and one for herself. No sooner had the porter been drunk than the moth CT complained of feeling sick at her stom- ach, and she started to go in her eldest daughters room, only 10 feet away. When she reached this room, she sat down and soon vomited. Margaret, thinking her mother was about to have a fainting spell, went to her assistance and took her by the arm. The mother never spoke after she entered the room and in about two min utes fell dead to the floor.
 Margaret cried out to her sister Mary, who was down stairs, to come up, and when the latter entered the room Margaret fell across the lifeless body of her mother.
 Mary immediately called her brother, who was in the kitchen. He mounted his bicycle and summoned Drs. Whipple and D. F. O'Callaghan. Both women were dead when the doctors arrived. The doc tors at once said that the women had been poisoned, but it was not until Medical Ex- aminer Draper had examined the bodies that the nature of the poison was known.
 The Mystery Unsolved.
 Meantime the police had searched high and low to solve the mystery. The poison had been placed in the bottle of porter, but by whom and for what reason they could not ascertain.
 These circumstances were all that the police could find to work upon. They offer no explanation of the crime, but have arrested and charged with murder Michael Toole, who purchased the liquor; Mary Toole, who carried it to her mother, and Stephen Toole, who was in the neighbor- ing clubroom at the time, and who has not yet been connected with the purchase of the liuuor.