Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-22
A BOY DIES FROM POISON
Taken Violently Ill Shortly After Eating
Freely Of q Pic.
AN ELDER SISTER ALSO MADE SICK
Both in Awful Agony, But the
Girl Recovered.
A DOCTOR SAYS THEY WERE POISONED

The BOY Bought Large Pie at Bakery,
and shortly After PartakjnE of 1t he
and His sister Were Seized With Violent
Illness-Ths Physician Pronounced 1t n
Case of Poisoning Death of the Boy on
Thursday Morning.
Little Herman AclSermann, the g.
yearsold son of Alexis Alderman of
No. COB Madison street, died at 2
o'clock on Thursday in terrible agony.
He was taken sick after eating pie
that was thought to be stale.
Tuesday week the little fellow went
an errand for lady living on Sixth
street, and she rewarded him with a
penny. The lad was tickled with the
money and he went to the Chicago
bakery, whore the children in the
neighborhood claim they have been
purchasing pies for a cent. The chill
dren say the penny pies are special
ones, and the little fellow askd for
one.
He came running home and exhibit
ing a big pie, told his brothers and
sisters seven in all--that he had got
a 10-cent pie for penny.
Herman is generous and he cut the
pie in two and gave his 10-years-old
sister Annie half. He kept the other
half and Annie divided hers among
the other children. Herman also gave
his crust away, he eating only the fill
ing, which was supposed to be pine
apple.
Immediately after eating the filling
young Herman began to feel badly. He
complained to his mother of headache
and said he was sick at the stomach.
Annie also complained. The boy
vomited freely, but his sister was UNI
able to find any relief in that direction.
Tuesday night both children were
very ill and the parents did all in theii
power to relieve them. Annie showed
signs of improvement, but the boy grew
worse, and Wednesday morning DR. j. G.
Fahey was called in.
As soon as DIR. Fahey saw the boy hi
inquired what he had been eating, anC
said in his opinion the lad was suffer.
| ing from poison, The parents told theil
story and the physician was satisfied
as TO the cause. He treated the child
| for poison, but without success. The
boy grew rapidly worse and vomited {
great deal during the night His agon,
was intense until death relieved hit
sufferings at o'clock Thursday morn
ing.
A reporter of "The, Gazette callet
on the distressed family on Thursday
| The mother and sister Annie, who hal
recovered, related the sad affair to thu
reporter.
Mrs. Ackermann said that when hei
son was taken i'll she thought it wal
summer complaint and treated him &C
| cordingly. The daughter was alst
thought to be afflicted the same way
The little fellow told his mother, how
ever, that the pie he had eaten was SOU
and tasted bad. Annie said that thai
was her opinion, too. She said she no
ticed black specks in the filling, anC
she thought something was wrong
The pie was about week old sh'
thought. Itappeared to be very stale
but all the same the children ate it all
None of the children except Herman
and Annie were made sick as TIN
others ate only the crust, and did no
get hold of the filling, or, at leas
enough to do any harm.
Mrs. John J. Schrade, wife of tn
proprietor of the Chicago Bakery, a
Sixth and Madison streets, was ais
seen by the reporter. She said:
Several children came into tn
store on Tuesday afternoon, and m
husband sold them pies. The boy VIII
died was among them. On shelf bacl
of the counter were IA number of pie
about two days old, which we wer
about to throw away. The boy say
big one in the lot and asked tn
price. He seemed particularly to wan
it and it was sold to him. There wa
nothing wrong with the pie, and
was not over two days old. There wa
nothing init or on the top or bottor
that was harmful. Several other chill
dren ate of the same lot of pies, bu
none was made sick. She was Loaf
to believe that the pie caused tho i'll
ness of the child.
The eoroner's jury Tuesday decide
that little Herman Alderman came t
his death from cholera morbus, but tn
cause was unknown, owing to the fac
that the contents of the stomach wer
not analysed at the post norton exami
nation.
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