The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-12-31
A GIFT DEALS DEATH.
Poison Sent to New Yorker as q
Christmas Present.
Ills Cousin, a Indy, Uses IL as n Hems-
dy and Dics-strong Evidence
OF "a PLOT To XIII the Re-
cIpient.

New York. Dec. 2o.-Mystery sur
rounds an unusual case of fatal poison
ing which followed Wednesday the re-
ceipt of a Christmas present. Mrs.
Kate j. Adams was the victim, though
the poison was intended for another.
The police think il was cyanide OF po-
taSsium. Mrs. Adams, who had Sc
we're headache, went TO the room occu-
pied by Harry Cornish, the well-known
athlete and member OF the Knicker-
booker Athletic club. who boards with
her Mr.. Cornish had received as a
Christmas present, from whom is not
known, small silver case containing
a bottle of what was supposed 10 be
bromo settler. II was 10 get the med
icine that Mrs. Adams went into the
room. She found the case and took an
ordinary dose of the powder from the
bottle. A little while later she became
violently i'll, and although every known
remedy was resorted TO she died. DR..
Hitchcock, who attended her, asked for
the bottle. and when il was handed 10
him tasted the contents and pro-
nounced it cyanide of potassium. He
was made slightly sick.
CIew IL slight.
Mr.. Cornish said he had received the
medicine case OF silver containing the
bottle as a Christmas gift at the club
through the mail. A piece OF yellow
paper was wrapped about pasteboard
box which contained the case, and on
this was mir. Harry Cornish, Knick-
erbocker Athletic club. Furty-fifth
street and Madison avenue. New York
city" The box bore the name OF Tiff
fanny e. Co, and the bottle, which APP
peared TO contain bromo seltzer, bore a
Philadelphia druggists label DR..
Hitchcock said Cornish was also sur
fering frofa dose from the same bot
tie when the physician reached the
house. "Mr. Cornish told me he had no
idea who sent him the case, but said
that he intended TO go through his cor
respondence TO see If anyone who
wrote to him spelled forty with a ~ "
said the doctor.
Calls IT Murder.
Coroner's Physician Weston called at
the house Wednesday night. He took
the vial holder and three bottles OF
poison. He also took the wrapper con
tanning the address, which apparently
had been written by a woman. After
careful examination Of the contents OF
the bottle he said IL was his opinion
that the contents were cyanide OF po-
sassium. He was sure that this was
what caused Mrs. Adams death. and
that IL was murder. cod-blooded and
premeditated. He was OF the opinion
that the victim intended was Cornish
He had had no talk with Cornish. The
police think the woman was sent -
Cornish by jealous woman with the
intent to cause his death.
Harry Cornish is a cousin OF Mrs
Adams and is 40 years old. He ha.
been the physical director OF the KniclI
erbocker Athletic club for three years
Prior TO that time he was the physical
director OF the Chicago Athletic club
Cornish disappeared soon after visit.
ing tho assistant district attorneys Of
flee and could not be found anywhere
His divorced wife lives In Boston.
Like the DotIsin Case.
Two packages Of poison have beer
sent 10 the Knickerbocker Athletic club
within the last seven weeks both oil
which have resulted in death. Besides
Mrs. Adams. who was killed Wednes
day, Henry c. Barnet died on Ncvem.
Der IL az the club Both these eases
resemble that OF Mrs. Botkin, Of Sar
Francisco. who is on trial for sending
poison through the mails to persons ii
Dover, Del. But these two cases oil
poisoning are local The poisoner
probably Is now in this city. The pack
ages were mailed in New York Cor
nish received his package December "a
pApT oF A MOUNTAIN FAIIc