Connecticut western news., 1895-09-05
POISONED CHOWDER.
MRS. FLEMING CHARGED WITH SEND-
 ING IT TO HER MOTHER.

She Is Arrested After Attending the Flu
 neraI-was to Have Inherited s3oo,o 900
 Was Found.
 NEW YORK, Sept. Airs Mary Alice Fleming is a prisoner in tho Tombs charg- cd with the murder of her mother, Mrs. Evelyn Bliss, by poisoning. Mrs. Bliss died on Friday night at II o'clock. Sho was taken i'll immediately after eating some clam chowder, which the police de- clare was poisoned and which they say was sVnt to her by her daughter, Mrs. Fleming. The body was buried in Green. wood cemetery Tuesday morning.
 Mrs. Fleming, who has shown much grief since the death of her mother, was one of the chief mourners at the grave. She was then practically under arrest charged with the murder of the parent for whose taking of she was so violently sobbing. She did not know, as she wept by the open gravc, that the two officers of the law who accompanied the funeral cortege to the cemetery had in their pos session warrants charging her with being a murderess.
 She knew she was suspected. She know she was under police surveillance, and that the two detectives were there to see that she did not escape, but she did not know that the stroke of the official pen which was destined to bring her to the bar to answer a charge of matrioide had already been made at the foot of a war rant. This she learned when she returned to her home after the burial.
 As sho alighted from her carriage in front of the Colonial hotel, at Ono Hun d md sfr md avenue, where she has lived for two years past detective stepped up, laid his hand on her arm and said, Madam, l have warrant for your arrest. J"
 She did not seem surprised or frighten- ed, but said in low voice: All right, sir. am ready"
 Taken to the Tombs-
 She was taken before the coroner, who held her without bail.
 Mrs. Fleming was led off to a cell in tho Tombs, where she will remain until the inquest, the datc of which has not yet been fixed. The fixing of the date for the inquest awaits the completion of the an- alysis of Chemist W. T. Scheele of the stomach of the dead woman and a part of the chowder, the eating of which, it is al- legged, caused her death.
 The police are positive that they have a an. They claim that they can prove that the poisoned clam chowder was ordered from the restaurant at the Colonial hotel, and that she sent 1t to her mother. They show motive in the fact that upon tho death of her mother Mrs. Fleming would come into possession of large amount of money, said to be $500, 900, which is now on deposit with the city chamberlain, and they claim that they can show that hun dreds of other people ate clam chowder at the Colonial hotel restaurant on the fatal Friday and suffered no discomfort what ever.
 Dr. William T. Bullman, the physician who was called in to attend Mrs. Bliss during her last hours, said yesterday that he never knew of a case in which the evil dence against the accused was gathered with such completeness and dispatch. Dr. Bullman diagnosed the case as one of pol. soning from the first, and set about at once to preserve all the evidence at hand. It was he who notified the coroner and the police of tho fact that the death of Mrs. Bliss was suspicious.
 Captain Thompson carried the warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Fleming in his pock- ct for nearly 24 hours without executing it, because he wanted the analysis of . Chemist Scheele to prove positively that  stomach before he made an arrest. A pre- liminary report of Chemist Scheele to Coroner Meagher yesterday furnished this evidence.
 Poison Enough to Kill s Horse. During the day Dr. Schoele submitted two written reports to the coroner. In both of them he declared that he had found evidences of the presence Of a large quantity of poison in the dead woman's stomach. There was poison enough given to the woman to kill horse, the chemist said. The same poison that was found in the body of the dead woman was found in the pitcher which contained the chowder
 The poison used was antimony, or min eral poison, which is the basis of tartar emetic. Anthony was the poison used by Dr. Meyer, who is now serving life sen tcnce in state prison, in the killing of Ludwig Brandt. The symptoms described by Dr. Bullman as being those of Mrs Bliss after she had eaten the chowder cor respond to those of antimony poisoning. Mrs. Fleming is remarkable woman, and she has a remarkable history. She is small in stature and quite slim and weighs scarcely more than 100 pounds. How she comes to bear the name Mrs Fleming no one save herself and her i'm mediate relatives know. Thirteen years ago she figured as the plaintiff in one Of the most sensational breach of promise suits on the records of the courts of this state. She is now 34 years of age. She was just 2l when the breach of promise suit was tried. Henry K. Fleming, a wealthy oil broker, was the defendant in the suit, and Mary Alice Almont Living ston, who is mono other than the prisoner in the Tombs, received verdict for S75,- 900 damages.
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