The Washington bee., 1895-09-07

New York, Sept. 4.-Mrs. Mary Alice
Z. Fleming is in the tombs charged
with the murder Of her mother, Mrs.
| Evelyn Bliss. Sne was taken into GUS
;ody on her return from the funeral and
Coroner O'Meagher committed her
without bail
Her demeanor was cheerful and con-
f!deat without being boastful. She
smiled reassuringly upon the policemen
no put her under arrest, as if she
really pItied them for the blunder she
knew they were making. The awful
charge made against her seemed to
have no effect upon her. Many women
have shown far more concern over the
breaking Of SevreS cup.
Mrs. Fleming, the police say, is the
| most remarkable woman ever arrested
in this city on a criminal charge. She
IS slender, delicate little body, with
gentle, brown eyes, silky hair and soft,
caressing manners.
The basis for her arrest was a YER
bal report made by Chemist Scheele to
the Coroner upon an analysis of several
organs Of the deceased, and rejected
food The police had made some in
quiries when notified of the death of
Mrs. Bliss, and were satisfied that her
daughter, Mrs. Fleming, might be able
10 explain certain mysterious things
about the manner of her death.
They had learned that Henry NJ. Bliss
was separated from his. wife, and that
his stepdaughter, Mrs. Fleming, was liv-
ing at the same hotel with him. The
separation has been for about two years,
and was ineXplicable.
Mrs. Bliss resided in a handsome fiat
At No. 597 st. Nicholas avenue. That is
about ifteen minutes walk from the Co
lOnial Hotel at Eighth avenue and One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, where
Mrs. Fleming and her stepfather were
living. On Thursday afternoon last Mrs
ltliSS called at the hotel to see her huS-
oand. and SO far as can be learned, had
pleasant interview with her daughter
On the following afternoon, between 4
and o'clock, Mrs. Fleming sent one of
her daughters, Oracle, eight years old,
over to Mrs. Bliss with some food This
consisted Of clam chowder and a piece
3f pie in tin can belonging to the hotel
Another little daughter, Katie, thirteen
or fourteen years old, accompanied Gra-
eie. When the children reached the
apartments Of their grandmother they
were welcomed by the old lady, who
poured the clam chowder into jug and
gave them the tin to take back to the
lotel The little girls went away anu
Mrs. Bliss ate all the clam choWder The
sic she did not touch.
She was seized at 6 o'clock with violent
'ains in the stomach and retching. Just
bout that time an old friend of the fam
ly, Mr.. Stopper, called. He sent down
or Mrs. Van Orden, the wife Of the
igent Of the house, who went up and ap-
0!ied what remedies she could. Mrs. Van
Orden said she had been attacked in that
way two or three months before and set
down as a mild attack Of cholera.
But Mrs. Bliss grew worse and Mr..
Stopper sent for doctor. 1t was after :
o'clock when DR.. William F. pullman, of
No 24S West One Hundred and Thrift
1fth street, arrived, The symptoms at
,nce struck him as those of poisoning, and
:ummoned private nurse.
In the intervals of her agony Mrs. Bliss
-emarked to the doctor that she had been
ited financially by her death. Subsequent
V she appeared to have some compunc-
ion for making this assertion, and she
said she must have been poisoned acci-
1entally.
When DR.. Bullman called again at Il
o'clock she was dead. He noticed that
some medicine he had prescribed had no,
2een administered by the nurse, Mrs.
phillips. DR.. Bullman found the pitcher
hat had contained the clam chowder and
discovered at the bottom cryscalized
ne stomach he said he was able to tell
What the poison was. The police say they
also know and mention antimony and tar
ar enaetic.
Coroner O'Meagher said the autopsy
showed that the stomach was violently in
famed, that there was only a slight cal
,ifcation Of the endocardium, but that
here was no indication Of sufficient or
sanic disease to cause sudG Il death. The
orain was not different from that in any
voran Of her age-she was fifty-nine-2nd
III the other organs we're normal
Mrs. Fleming denied that she sert the
bod over to her mother by the ch'!7re7
The children testified yesterday I -
lid send TN with tie food t. -
.rardmother Here. therefore, is a
al and also an unnatural conflict of -
| imCny.