The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-03
POISONED COLOGNE SENT.
Also PACKAGE or CANDY DIRECTED
TO MS TIMPANY.

Happily She Did Not Use Any of the Co
loRne, but Promptly Took IL TO n Drug
Eist, and the Candy Was stopped In the
Post Onlce-MysteriOus Letters Received.
Miss Marie Ethel Timpany is a young wo-
mar who asserts that an attempt has been
made to poison her. Miss Timpany is IL
years old, and lives with her parents at 51e
Seventeenth street. Brooklyn. For tho past
four months she has been receiving letters
through the malls, hgned with the name OF
Matthew Clark of 49SH Sixth avenue. Brooklyn.
At the same time Mr.. Clark has been receive
ing mysterious communications. signed with
the names OF Miss rlmphny and her mother.
The letters received by Mr.. Clark have been
harmless enough. One notified him that Miss
Tlmpany had committed suicide by taking car
bolic acid another invited him to the young
womnn's funeral. A number OF others ac-
cused him OF getting too gay with other girls.
and still others suggested a change In his
mode Of living.
Miss Timpany and her mother describe the
letters sent to the former as 'scurrillous, In
sultinR and indecent" Such letters as they
could produce yesterday. however. were
merely silly. The worst thing said in those
seen by a U reporter yesterday was: "Oh, l
know where you went yesterday afternoon"
n black ~insinuation. according to Mrs. Tim
pany.
1t was about a month ago that a bottle pur-
porting TO contain cologne was sent to Miss
Timpany. The young woman took 1t to u
druggist named Frederick at Eighteenth street
and Ninth avenue. Mr.. Frederick said it was
u mixture OF carbolic acid. vltriol and cologne.
Miss Timpany said: "Oh. my. they're trying
to kill me now." and went home and told her
mother about 1t. Mrs. Timpany went to Sub
Post Office V. at 900 Ninth street. and COM
ploiped m Superintendent n Il Conlin. Mr..
Conlin made an investigation. and found that
the letters to both Miss Timpany and Mr..
Clark had been mailed at Ninth avenue and
Seventeenth street. Mrs. Timpany said that
the letters and the bottle Of poison had driven
her daughter into nervous prostration. Mr..
Conlin agreed to hold all letters and packages
that came for Miss Timpany after that, Mrs.
mail herself.
Three or four more letters came. and finally.
about = week ago. a package Mrs. almpaaHH
cents postage due. She decided on eonsldeTa-
ton to leave 1t where 1t. was. Mr.. Conlin
candy. He told Mrs. Timpany Of this and she
told her friends that a second attempt had
by sending poisoned candy to her through the
mails. The candy is an innocent-looklng lot
of sweets and has not yet been subjected TO
On Tuesday night Mr.. Timpany came home
and found craze tied to his front door bell.
~ Nthl- lhlD- NhC anu. uShNe q bAS -
was dead. The grape turned out to be a white
apron torn into strips and tied together at the
top by a black bow made of n strip of skirt
binding. The next dav Mr.. ,Timpany put the
whole matter into the hands Of Post Office
Inspector Lewis, who is Investigating.
All Of the letters received by Miss Tim
pany and. Mr.. Clark appear to be in the same
handwriting. The addresses on the packaZe
of candy and on the box containing the bottle
of poison are also similar. A letter which Miss
Tinpany wrote, to Mr.. Clark some time ago
was shown to the young woman and, she de;
nounced it as n forgery. She was afterward
convinced that she really wrote this letter.
She and her mother, talked freely about the
declaring that they suspected a former girl
friend of Miss Timpany and two other women
of being the authors OF the whole trouble. The
Mr.. Clark and suspected Miss Timpany Of be-
Ing engaged to him. Her jealousy. they be;
| lieved. had led her to take this means to be rid
Of her rival. AS a matter Of fact, they said.
Mr.. Clark is nothing more than a friend.
The former girl friend had this to say on
That girls crazy. She's been sending let
.ers to herself. BY the way. Put 1t down that
Mr.. Clark said yesterday that he was merely
a friend of Miss Timpany. He had not sent
the offending letters or the packages.