The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-28
Wants Order From District
Attorney Shaffer.
Pennsylvania Authorities are Not
Pleased With This Turn.
Have Gone to Chester to Get Required
Document-Result of the Autopsy.

Chief of Police Berry and Coroner Min
chell of Chester, Pa, left the city this
morning and will go at once to Pennsyl-
vania to obtain the orders that are neces-
sar y before the viscera of Mrs. Albert II.
Postel can be ssnt to the toxocologist for
chemical analysis.
When DIR. Palmer completed his au-
topsy yesterday the jars containing the VS.
cers, the bottles containing the contents
OF the organs and the body itsolf were
turned over to Chief OF Police Berry.
He immed lately arranged with Under
taker Boyce TO have the boxes placed
npon the Colonial express last night, but
before the train time arrived DIR. Palmer
notified him that neither the bottles nor
the bouy could be removed from the
State without properly attested order
from District Attorney Shsffer of Pennsyl-
vania.
Chief Berry then had an interview vito
the authorities, and as the result be was
not in pleasant frame OF mind when he
returned to his hotel. Both the Chester
officials admit that the State authorities
have the right to make any disposition
of the pooy they see fit, but they look
upon the present case as mere instance
of quibbling over legal straws. To them,
they say, 1t means an unnecessary delay
of several days, and they are much exer
cised that what they regard as obstacles
should have been placed in their way.
Roth Coroner Minchell and Chief Berry
talked very freely before they left. They
said the autopsy had removed all doubt
as 10 the cause of MRS. Postel's death. II
nao been caused by poison, and that
poison had entered the system during
life.
When the body was opened one of the
first things discovered was large tea
cupfui of green fluid that closely resem-
bled paris green. Some one suggested
that il might be EN- balniing fluid, but the
coroner, who has been one OF the leading
undertasers of Delaware county for many
years, Immediately declared that this was
impossible. He said that there were but
two embalming fluids. one coloriess and
the other OF milky appearance, and none
of these could be turned TO such a green
by any natural effect of,a dead body. An
examination Of the fluid showed that 1t
was indeed an irritant mineral poison,
and il was at once placed in bottle TO
be preserved for complete chemical
analysis.
While it was at first believed that It
would be difficult TO distinguish the dill
ference between the effect OF tire poison
and tho natural decay, this was net fact,
for the first glance showed that the
poison had been acting upon her tissues,
and when the effect was found in the
gray matter OF the brain, 1t was st once
admitted by those present that tie poi
son must have been taken to the brain
by the natural circulation of blood, as no
poison injected into the body after death
could have caused these results.
Another proof was discovered that the
Chester authorities claim goes TO ertab-
lisb the fact that Mrs. Postel was the
victim OF slow poisoning. When she yis-
tied her mother, Mrs. Kuppinger last
April, g. he told her that sno expected TO
become "A mother In November, When
Postol brought the body to Providsnco
he told Mrs. Kuppinger that bis wife
had bad miscarriage, but DR. Palmer
states that not only was this last state.
ment untrue, hut that tho woman was
not, and never had been In the condition
she claimed, and IL Is therefore alleged
that the supposed sign OF approaching
maternity was due to the disturbance Of
the system by the administering OF sono
irritsnt drug.
whep Coroner Mincheli g. Chief
Berry arrive at Chester, just ioro 0
o'clock tonight, they VIII at onee lay the
case before District Attorney Sha1er.
snd ss soon as he has issued the nccss-
sary permit IT will be brought to rrosi-
dence and delivered to Dr. Palmer. The
viscera and the contents Of the organs
will then bs taken to Rhiladelphia and