The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-09

throats and found nothing abnormal
except a slight congestion. Both
patients were by this time unconscious,
and DR.. Bettingen, the throat special
list, was called in consultation. The
throat and vocal organs of the patients
appeared to be paraliZed, but no cause
for the affliction could be discovered.
While the physicians were pursuing
their Investigations Dupre grew SUD
denly worse and appeared to cease
breathing. Artificial respiration was
resorted to and a tube inserted by an
operation into Dupre's windpipe, but
after the physicians had worked with
him nearly two hours, the young man
died. Other physicians who had been
working on Capistrant, were then as
sisted by Drs. Marquis and Bettingen,
and finally he was restored to con-
seriousness. DR.. Marquis, after hearing
CapiStrant'S story, searched the young
mans valise and found half a dozen
cookies and about half of a bologna
sausage. These remained from the
lunch which is believed to have had
such serious results. The edibles will
be turned over to Coroner Nelson and
probably analyZed to determine which,
if either, is poisonous.
Capistrant gave the location of the
places where the food eaten by him
and Dupre had been purchased, but
did not know the names Of the pro-
prietors. Last evening, however, Mrs.
LangeVin said that the sausage had
been purchased at Martin Wittich's
butcher shop Robe and State streets,
and the pastry bought at Steidl's bak-
cry, $50 Greenwood avenue. She says
she directed her son, Arthur, to con-
duct her uncle and cousin to these
places, and that the boy told her, upon
his return, that these were the places,
visited. Mrs. Langevin says the young
men returned to her house with two
pieces of sausage and a dozen and q
half Of buns or rolls, but that she saw
no cookies. Six of the rolls, she said,
had been left at the house by the young
men, and had been eaten by herself,
husband and three children, but that
none Of the family had felt the slight
est illness. They wanted to give the
children some of the sausage, but, be-
ing Friday. Mrs. Langevin would not
allow the little ones to partake of the
bologna. So that, if the sausage
caused one death and almost another,
the three Langevin children were saw
ed from doubtless serious conse-
quences. AS to the cookies found in
her relatives Valfse, Mrs. Langevin is
sure they must have been purchased
after the young men left her house,
as she Says tnGy ndQ nOCnlng DuC fOtIS
i'll the bread line when they returned
from the purchasing trip with her son.
A reporter of the G | o e called at
Wittich's home last evening, but the
butcher refused to be interviewed He
refused to open his door, declaring
he knew nothing of Dupre's death nor
of any particular purchase of sausage
from his store Friday. At SteidPs bak-
cry it was said that no one could re-
call selling anythink to Capistrant
and DuDre, though the former says
the purchase was made from an aged
woman, and Steidl's mother sometimes
waits on customers. 1t was said, how
ever, that bread rolls and cookies from
the same lots from which the young
men purchased, if obtaining their sup
ply at the store at all, had been sold
generally to customers, and that no
complaint had been received.
The DuDre and Capistrant families
live on adjoining farms in Anoka
county. The two boys have been
chums since childhood, and only last
Wednesday visited their homes, after
an absence Of seven months in the
West, leaving together for the lumber
camp, where they had secured en-
ployment for the winter. Ex-Judge
of Probate Olivier, of this city, is Du-