New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-01

WAS MRS. BLISS POISONED!
SHE DIED SUDDENLY AFTER EATING
CLAM CHOWDER.
AN AUTOPSY REVEALS EVIDENCE OF POISON AMI
THE STOMACH WILL BE ANALYzED-sHE
WAS WEALTHY AND LIVED IN
ST. NICHOLAS-AVE.

THE STOMACH WILL BE ANAbiHhD-S"T
WAS WEALTHY AND LIVED IN
ST NICHoLAsAvE.
Mrs Eve,vn Rliss. ffty-fve years old. died Fri
day night at No 2e7 St Nicholas-ave. In sudden
attack ~ violent illness that gave rise to the sus-
picion that she had been poisoned. MIS- Bliss
lived alone with her two children. Henry f. Bliss
who Is the librarian Of the City College, and an
unmarried daughter.
The Bliss family occupied the top nat IN inc
house on ST. Nicholas-ave. Mrs. Bliss was eX-
pecting her two children home from vacation
She had been busy all day Friday setting Things
to rights for the children's return. Toward even
ing she rested, content A friend of the FAMILY
called and was with her. AT o'clock he came
down stairs and requested Mrs. Van Norden' 'he
wife Of the agent to come to see Mrs Bliss VINO
had been taken suddenly i'll. Mrs. Van NordeA
fornd her suffering apparently from Vloieh' a'-
tack OF cholera morbus She believed mat She
had been made Ill by dish Of clam chowdef she
had eaten and reminded Mrs. Van Norden OF d
similar experience she herself had had some
time before. Mrs. Van Norden recalled the 1ac'r
and as Mrs. Bliss refused to have a physician
called procured for her some medicine Oh ne ne
kind she herself had taken. But Mrs. Bliss did
not rally. She grew worse, and Dr BaIinah' Oh
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without avail His patient died at II o'clock.
Deputy Coroner O'Hanlon made an autopsy on
the body Of Mrs. Bliss yesterday afternoon anu
found evidence of poison. Her stor,ach was
found TO be greatly iniamed Coroner . Meaghei
will submit the stomach Of the woman 10 the
Health Board for an analysis. The Board VIII
report Monday.
Until a late hour last night there was con-
sultaton in the Office Of Captain Thompson OF
the West One-hundred and wenty- fifth-st. sta
| ton at which Coroner O'Meagher. DR.. balman
and the precinct detectives were present III was
said that the police would await the resui' VI ''o
Health Board analysis. 49,
n was learned that Mrs. Bliss was wealthy
woman holding property to the extent Of S25OooO'
which she had obtained from her former husband.
This property is now in litigation. Mrs Bliss Is
said TO have said to Dr. Ballmann: Doctor, L
have been poisoned. | am going TO ole. We
been poisoned by my relatives, who are trying 10
get my money" DR. Ballman refused to conflrm
this but the story told on good authority
Miss Florence Bliss and her brother Henry re-
turned yesterday evening from Point peasant,
~ j. where they have been staying Tor the iasI
few DAYS Miss Bliss took her mothers death
clamy She said that her mother had peen
suffering from heart disease for some Time anu
TINT she thought that her death was the result OF
that
When the autopsy being performed she
turned to Deputy Coroner O'Hanlon and SAID: /
think that ii was the morphine injection una.
killed nv mother" DR.. Ballman was present
AT the time but she was not aware that ne was
the physician in the case. No one seems 10
know who 1t was that sent the clam chOwder 10
Mrs Bliss.
band for several years, he living with his step
daughter Mrs Fleming. widow. who Is a
daughter Of Mrs. Bliss by a former marriage.
She was on good terms with her husband VINO
visited her occasionally. did Mrs. Fleming.