The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-31


follow it to the retail store and thai store
is conducted as it ought to he, you can
ma ito name of the person who bought
awe have not called on the police with
This information" continued the manu- :
facturer. "for the reason we have not got
rne information into shape for them. But
we are working hard to trace It, we are
searching our books and soon we Will
know Just the firm that we sent 1t to ny
limpres slon is that we sent 1t to New
York rirn. 1t may be our ca stern agent
in Hartford oan follow the clus Tor you II
it should be he.
Nj Iebkneckner said that his New
York customers included the leading sill
versmiths of the city. 1t was the practlce
OF all such fjyyns TO keep track of their
wares and "No. Sl4" should be traced
directly to the purchaser. A silver match
holder or toothpick holder such as el4, is
rarely. if ever, purchased for woman or
by one unless it is intended as present
for gentleman.
Z The little tray surrounding the cup
shows in itself that it is to be used Tor
cigar asnes, burned matches or broken
toothpicks.
There is no size OF bromo seltzer pottie
made that fits the article we make, sala
Mr.. Lebkneckner, 81 tried 1t mysaif to-
day. All are either too large or too small
Tho very Appearance of that bromo settler
bottle in that match holder must have
seemed homogeneous to any one wlfn
taste. A bottle in bottle holder It's per-
fectly. almost tightly. The bromo seitzer
hottie must have ratified around in No.
Sl4 and showed that 1t did not belong
there -
Chief Detective McCluskey says that
he has located the store at which the Sill
yer trinket was purchased. The chief de-
cIines to give the location of the store be-
no OF nt
York city.
Tonight the police authorities of New
ark, N. j., gave out the following list OF
dealers who purchased holders similar
to the one sent to Cornish from Leb-
kuechner & Co.:
Daniel Lowe, Salem, Mass; Black.
Starr & Frost 43S Fifth avenue, New
York; c. Hartegon. of this city; Green
leaf & Crosby, Jacksonville, H. A. Ar
minger & CO., Baltimore; M. Straus,
Brooklyn; Becker & Lathrop. Syracuse;
Middletown Plate Co., Middletown, ct. !;
Phelps & Adams, San Francisco; S.
Deses, Washington, D. c.; George Evans,
Philadelphia; Acknowledgement Jewelry
company, St Louis; Spaulding & Co.,
Chicago; Stephens & Co., and Cook q
Jacques, Trenton, N. j.
BOUGHT TWO OF MATCH SAFES.
Midi e6own, Conn, December 30.-It
was learned this afternoon that the
Middletowh Plate company in 1897 purT
chased two match safes from Lebkneckner
the Newark, N. j., silyersmith. These
articles are said to be of the pattern OF
that which contained the poison which
resulted in the Adams tragedy in New
York. One was purchased June ~. 1897,
and was afterwards sent to the Chicago
branch of the Middletown firm The
other was bought September 30, 1887, and
later was shipped to Il. l.. White,
Guthrie, Oklahoma. Both were numbered
ssSl4."
BALTIMORE INTERESTED.
Baltimore, December considerable
interest in the poisoning of Mrs. Adams in
New York has been occasloned here by
the news that two OF the silver tooth
pick holders. in which the promo seltzer,
which contained the deadly drug that
caused the death of Mrs. Adams, was en-
closed, were sold IN this city. Arminger
& Co., say they do not remember sell
ing such an article of silyerware.
Isaac Emerson of the Emerson drug
company, which compounds promo
seitzer, said ha had no recollection OF hav-
ing an invoice of the headache returned
TO S. j. Russell the Jersey City druggist
as has been stated.
During the ten years that we nave
heen manufacturing bromo seltzer," he
said, mot single grain OF potassium
cyanide or other poisonous material has
come within the doors of our factory. The
only explanation that 1 can offer is that
some one who wished to injure Cornish
sent him the poison He denied that
il was possible for bromo settler to de-
compose and form poison of any sort.
ONE OF THE BOXES IN SALEM.
Salem, Mass, Dec. 30.-A duplicate OF
the silver box which figures so conspi-
oususly in the Adams poisoning case IL
New York has been found in the stock
of Mr. Daniel Lowe, a jeweler OF this
city. The box was shipped to Mr.. Lowe
as a sample, about October 26, 1896.
1t bears the number Sl4 andis stamped
with the hallmark ''L'' in crescent.
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