The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-07
SAYS IT'S A RUSSIAN PLOT.
Oh. WEssLBR INSISTS THAT HE
WAS POLg0HED BY A sPK.

The, Roiice Have No Clue % the AuceeA
Po,peser-The Eppsteins and singers
vveren't Peisoned. After AIl-Sziik Dealers
suner Through . scare AunouE Castpraers.
Tho mysterious case Of poisoning, by which
the lives of DR.. Abraham Wesslcr's wife and
three children were nearly sacrificed, is stil
puzzling the police Of Paterson. n. ]. As told
In yesterdays Sun some one attempted TO
poison DIR. Wcssler's family by putting arsenic
in the milk pitcher which the Wesslers had
placed under a porch in the rear of their house
at so Bridge street. All day yesterday DR..
Wossler and two private detectives whom he
engaged worked with the hope Of solving the
mystery. They simply confirmed the fact that
the case was one Of arsenic poisoning. DR.. John
@. Mccoy, whose office 10 at broadway and
Paterson street, reiterated the statement that
the Wesslors had been poisoned by arsenic.
A number of milk dealers In Paterson who
were seen stated that their business had been
greatly injured by the discovery of tho arsenic
in the milk delivered to tho Wcssler family.
One Of these dealers said: Most of the milk sup
piled to the families in Paterson comes from tho
diaries at Preaknoss ant, near ECHO Lake. All
have become so alarmed over the Wessier case
enS' n soSy nsine 'S Son Sn saS Sq mR}E. q Il m Is n Sn%
known as a positive fact that the family Of Bon.
The Singer family on Sunday morning drank
some Of the milk which was delivered, to them
by tho milkmRn who supplied the Wesslers with
HSii nk. and dS,i a. first 1t was snPPPSSs s e. that mt,t the ,1h .%S
they drank, Such was not the case. however,
Singers succeeded In getting a portion of the
Mill which was analysed to-day. This milk
was free from arsenic. The samo may be said
Of the family Of Samuel Eppstein. There is not
dren became Ill from eating fruit and pickles.
In this case cholera morbus appeared TO bo tho
trouble. 1t WINS not n case of poisoning
DIR. Wesslcr snld that he intended TO unravel
az believe the poisoner was a Polish spy" he
said. 81 have been tangled up in. several fights
with the Russian Government, and i know 1t to
be- a fact that q Polish spy Ia ut work. here, in
Paterson following every movement l mako.
from practising medicine In this city. The only
thing that ! ever did in Russia was to try to
free the people from the slavery Of the Car: l
do not deny that i am o member of q society
whose object Is to overthrow tho Russian Gov
here to injure me; they may induce the Pater-
son Grand Jury to indlct mo on false charges;
they may harass me In business and they may
try to drive me from tho face Of the Garth, but l
engaged in, that Of a~ssisting my poor country.
men who are still bound in the bonds of slav.
cry"
At the Washington street police station in
Paterson a Sun reporter was Informed yester-
been put to work on tho Wessler poisoning
case, but SO far had not unravelled the mystery.
State Dairy Inspector Tracey made an inyestt-
cation yesterday at the dairy of Jacob Levy,
who supplied the milk to Wessler. Everything
would seem to show that the milk was poisoned
after 1t was delivered.