The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24
THE DEATH Or FARER.
Tho Coroner VIII Begin the Hearing of
Witnesses This Morning.

SdllHS the uedlu OF MdIhS fdpVlS WIZ
died suddenly early yesterday morn
ing at 1873 Congress avenue, as men
TONED yesterday. Medical Examiner
White performed the autopsy in the
case Faber came to New Haven few
days ago from Boston. He Mad been
In this country but six monthsS He
was travelling dealer in old gold and
came from Boston. He had been here
about three days and left wife and
five children at his home in Temesrar,
Hungary.
The question of how Faber met his
death is not yet answered positively
and it will not be until the autopsy is
completed and an analysis of the con-
tents of a certain bottle labeled "Chol-
era Mixture is made
For a few days past Faber had suf-
fered with dysentery Early Sunday
evening he took a stroll and meeting
Moses Goldberg, a secondhand cloth
ing dealer at AZ Oak street, he spoke
to him of his ailment. He had met
| Goldberg in a business way three or
four times during his stay in the city
and felt comparatively well acquaint-
ed
He asked Goldberg what was good
| for his ailment and the latter recon-
| mended that he should go to A. F.
Woods Sons drug store at the corner
of Church and George streets and OBJ
tain some cholera mixture.
! Upon Fabers request Goldberg
agreed to go up to Woods with him
| to obtain the mixture Goldberg is
very positive that Faber did not have
a bottle with him and that he had not
| bought any before.
| Goldberg did not go into the store
with Faber, but waited outside when
! Faber obtained the cholera mixture.
They then went back up to Oak street
and Faber returned to the house of
Max Goldstein at 1873 Congress avenue,
where he boarded.
| About IL O'Clock F'aber complained
of feeling badly and he took, it is sup
posed, a drink from the bottle of med
| icine which he obtained at Woods drug
| store.
AS soon as he swallowed it he be-
gan to scream and appeared to be in
| terrible agony He said he knew he
was poisoned and prayed heaven to
spare his life so that he could get back
to Hungary to see his wife and chill
dren.
MIR. Goldstein took him to DR.. HUI
,s:..
| The bottle labeled cholera mixture was
taken along, too, and was shown to
| the doctor
| DIR. Husinsky says that he touched
| his tongue to the bottle and found that
it was hot. He judged from the mans
| actions that he was poisoned and told
| him to take mustard and water as
an emetic and also to take some hot
brandy.
The suffering man was taken home
and the emetic was given him. The
result was as satisfactory as expected,
but he was not relieved TO arfy extent
In fact the agony became greater and
| he shrieked and screamed, according to
| the statement of the neighbors, until
Goldstein rushed out and found Officer
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police station and Police Surgeon Cay
1 nor was sent for. He went to the
house. but before he could administer
| to the mans wants Faber died in the
| greatest agony.
| DR.. White and Coroner Mix went
down to Woods drug store yesterday
morning and questioned the clerks
James P. Wood, one of the firm, and
William III. Alpers, a clerk, admitted
that they were the only men in the store
| at O'Clock in the evening, and DR..
White conducted them up to the under
taking rooms, where they viewed the
remains to see if they could remember
4 having seen the man in their store
| Sunday evening. They both looked at
the man, but neither could positively
say that they had seen him in their
store on Sunday night or at any other
time.
Both James p Wood and A. FELTON,
Wood talked yesterday about the case,
and said that they hoped the matter
would be cleared up. No one could
identify Faber as having been in their
lstore Sunday evening and consequently
they knew nothing about it. They
frankly admitted that their bottle OF
cholera mixture was near the bottle OF
aconite; in fact, they were on the same
shelf, with only one bottle between
them. The bottle which was shown by
the medical examiner did not contain
cholera mixture They did not know
what it did contain, as the medical ex-
aminer took it away without giving
them an opportunity to taste its con-
! tents.
]. p Wood said that he and Mr.. AL
pers had told all they knew about tl1t
case ito the coroner and it was now ir
his hands They said that there was g
possibility, in view of conflicting stories
as to where and how the medicine was
obtained that Faber might have hat
the bottle refilled elsewhere after he ha6
first obtained the mixture from theil
store. or some poisonous drug nigh
IhaEe been subs tituted in the bottle The.
said that they never sold aconite ovel
their counters without a prescription
unless to horsemen whom they knew
who use it in large quantities.
Before he died Faber said that he
had first obtained the medicine ir
Woods store on Saturday evening, and
had used it all up. On Sunday he was
seized with another attack and went in
and left the bottle to be refilled, and re-
| turned in the evening for it.
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