The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-06
NEW YORK POISONING CASE
TIE PROMISED 4RREsT NOT MADE
LAST NIGHT.
Harry Cornish Makes Long Statement
Reviews Details of Receiving the
Poisoned Bromo seltzer, the Giving of
1T to Mrs. Adams and Subsequent
Events,

1T TO Mrs. Adams ana subsequent
Events.
New York, Jan. Sup to late hour
tonight the promised arrest in the
Adams poisoning case had not materl-
allied. There was practically nothing
new in the situation except statement
issued by Harry Cornish, in which he
reviews the Getails of receiving the
pois ND brcmG-saltzer" the giving
of the poison to Mrs. Adams and sub
sequent events. Mr.. Cornish, in Fart,
says: "On the morning of the day OF
the poisoning Mrs Rogers came to my
door and made remark something like
Mamma has a fearful headache, and
would you give her some of your bromo
seltzer,' On this suggestion l went into
her room and took the bottle to the
dining room, sat down at The table and
opened it. / read the directions on the
outside which said "a heaping teaspoon
full and this amount | took from the
bottle. Mrs. Adams brought me a glass
in which | put the powder and then
she went to the kitchen to get the re-
! CURED half-goblet of water. She came
! back and poured the water into the
| glass. l stirred it repeatedly and then
! she drank it. / did not notice whether
| 1t etfelversad or net and would have
| thought nothing OF it either one way or
| the other because / have had no ex-
| parlcnce with bromo-seltzer Mrs.
Adams must have left about an inch
of the mixture in the glass and as soon
as she had swallowed it she made some
| such remarks as my. how bitter 1t is.
Then she started to walk towards
| the kitchen, When she took it | had
reached for the paper which was on
the table and when she made that re-
| mark | said something like Why that's
all right and | took the glass up and
tasted it myself, taking a good-si2ed
swallow. | noticed that it bun ned a tt
tie, but paid no attention to it and
started to read. Then / heard Mrs.
Rogers cry from the bathroom Come
here and help mamma | jumped up
from the table and my knees gave cut
under me, but 1 Strengthened up and
~
rived there Mrs. Adams dropped on the
floor | attempted to raise her from
the floor and could not do it. The mo-
ment | made an effort to raise her |
began to vonit, | then called loudly
for Mr.. Hovey. He came running to
the bathroom in his night dress and
assisted me to carry Mrs. Adams to the
couch in the dining room. | remember
that all this time | had this feeling of
sickness. ! ran to the door and going
out into the hall called Henry Che
hallboy) and told him to run and get
a doctor quick, because Mrs Adams was
very sick. | then ran back to the bath
room where / was sicl1er than | ever
was before in my life. As soon as I
could | ran to my room, put
on my oVercoat right ever my pa
jamas and taking the bottle ran down
and across the street to the drug store.
| remember being sick while | was GO
ing down stairs, going across the street
and in the drug store, During all my
running around that morning I was
continually vomiting.
In the drug store | put the bottle on
the counter, told the clerk that a Wo-
man had Just drank some of that and
asked him what / should give her. He
put up some sweet spirits of ammonia
and ran back to the house with it.
taking the bottle with me- When I
arrived there the doctor had not come
and told Henry he must go after him,
as some one was poisoned, / started
downstairs myself and around the cor
ner with Henry, and as we came near
9th street the doctor was coming down
the street. / went back to the house
with him. The doctor did what he
could. He then took some of the pow
der from the bottle, placed it on his
tongue and remarked hat it was bitter
He finally said that tha case was so
serious that he would like to have me
call DR.. e. Styles Potter, who lived at
S7th street and Amsterdam avenue, At
the d9Ctor's Office a colored boy an
swered the bell and / asked him to tell
the doctor that DR.. Hitchcock had a
severe case of poisoning and wished
him to come right away. DR.. Potter
was apparently in an inside room il
bed and I am sure that I did not see
him, as Immediately upon his assuring
me that he would come / ran back to
the house alone.
He came soon, but then it was too !
late. After we were satisfied that Mrs. |
Adams was dead ] explained the entire
circumstances to the doctors. They |
had previously told me that it was a
case for the coroner to look into. Up
to that time | have no recollection of
MI McIntyre's name being mentioned,
and I am positive I was the first one to
mention it and it came about, I think,
by the doctor saying that it would
probably be very late when the coroner
got there, and that it was impossible
to remove the body until he came. AS
] knew how unpleasant 1t would be to
pass and repass through this room dur
inG the day, my thought was to see Mr..
Mcintyre and see if he could not use
his influence at the coroner's office to
have them attend to this a once. That
was my sole idea in going to him. Not
being able to get Mr.. Mcintyre on the
telephone l went to the criminal court /
building and there saw him. From
there l went to inform my cousin and
then returned to the club. | had been
very sick all during the day, but felt
that I ought to keep on my feet as long
as possible. On my return to the club,
however, [ found it necessary to send
for a physician and both DR.. Phillips
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