Evening journal., 1895-09-04
FROM GRAVE TO JAIL.
Mrs. Fleming Arrested After At
tending the Funeral.
DID SHE POISON HER RICH MoTHER9
She Is Charged with Putting Anthony In
Bowl of chowder Which She Sent to
Her Mother. at Whose Death She was
10 Inherit S3OOOOO.

Evelyn Bliss, by poisoning. Mrs. Bliss
died on Friday night at IL o'clock. She
was taken i'll Immediately after eating
some clam chowder, which the police de-
clare was poisoned and which they say
was sent 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 OFF she was so violently
sobbing. She did not know, rs she wept
by the open grave, that the two officers Of
tho 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 knew
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 war
rant. This she learned when she returned
20 her home after the burial
As she alighted from her carriage in
front of the Colonial hotel, at One Hun
dred and Twenty-ffth street and Eighth
avenue, where she has lived for two years
past, a detective stepped up, laid his hand
on her arm and said, Madam, l have q
warrant for your arrest.
She did not seem surprised or frighten-
ed, but said in low voice: "All right,
sir. / am ready"
Taken 20 the Tombs.
She was taken before the coroner, who
held her without bail.
Mrs Fleming was led Off TO a cell in
the Tombs, where she will remain until
the inquest, the date Of which has not yet
been fixed. The fixing Of the date for the
inquest awaits the completion Of the am
alysis of Chemist W. u. Scheele Of the
stomach Of the dead woman and part OF
tho chowder, the eating of which, it is al
legged, caused her death.
The police are positive that they have
a complete case against the accused wom-
an. They claim that they can prove that
the poisoned clam chowder was ordered
from the restaurant at the Colonial hoteB
and that she sent it to her mother. They
show a motive in the fact that upon the
death of her mother Mrs. Fleming would
come into possession of large amount OF
money, said 20 bo 5000, 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 poi
soning from the first and set about at
once to preserve all the evidence at hand.
il was he who notified the coroner and
the police Of the 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 "a hours without executing
it, because no wanted the analysis of
Chemist Scheele to prove positively that
there was poison in tho dead wOman's S
stomach before he made an arrest A pre-
liminary report of Chemist Scheele to
Coroner Meagher yesterday furnished this
evidence.
Poison Enough to Kill a Horse.
During the day DR.. Scheele submitted
two written reports to the coroner. In
both Of them he declared that nc had
found evidences of the presence Of a large
quantity Of poison in the dead woman's 8
stomach. There was poison enough given
to the woman TO kill a horse, the chemist
said. The same poison that was found in
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the pitcher which contained the chowder.
The poison used was anthony or min
eral poison, which is the basis Of tartar
emetic. Anthony was the poison used by
DIR. Meyer, who is now serving life SEN
tence 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.
1t was rumored yesterday that a war
rant had also been issued for the arrest Of
III. II. Bliss, the husband Of the dead
woman, who also lives at the Colonial ho-
tel and who has rooms directly opposite
those Of his stepdaughter, Mrs. Fleming.
Captain Thompson at the One Hundred
and Twenty-nfth street station, said that
there was no truth in this report.
81 have no intention of aTesting any
one else in connection with the death of
Mrs. Bliss, " ho said, "and no warrant has
been issued for the arrest Of any one save
Mrs. Fleming, who is now in custody.
know exactly where the chowder which
killed Mrs. Bliss came from, and / know
who carried it to Mrs. Bliss house. Mrs.
Fleming sent that food, and am going to
try and prove it.
Mrs Fleming is a remarkable woman,
and she has remarkable history. She is
small in stature and quite slim and
weighs scarcely more than 100 pounds.
She Has a Remarkable History.
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 "a years of age. She
was Just 81 when the breach Of promise
suit was tried. Henry E. Fleming, a
wealthy oil broker, was the defendant in
the suit, and Mary Alice Almont Living
ston, who is none other than the prisoner
in the TOmbs, received a verdict for $40,
600 damages.
This at that time was the largest yer
dict ever obtained in "A suit for breach O
u