New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-31
MRS. FISH A SUICIDE.
SEQUEL TO JEWEL CASE.
Her Husband focused Mrs. Hy.
lands, Who ShOUed Lore Letters.

Az midnight last night Coroner Scholer tele-
phoned to the police OF the West hundred
and-twenty -fifth-st. station 10 have a guard
placed over the body OF Mrs. vertie Fish. thir-
ty-eigh. years old, wife of Captain John Albert
Fysh. formerly OF the British Army. The woman
had been found dead in her apartments at No
521 West One-hundred- a d-eleventh-s earlier
in the evening. A patrolman and several detec-
tives We're sent to the house. and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Garvan was Informed.
The story of the incidents leading up 20 Mrs.
Fish's death Is told by Francis Graves.
maid, and by Captain Fysh. whose troubles with
Mrs Ines Hylands over necklace OF his wife's
occupied the attention Of the courts recently.
According 20 the maid, about 3 p. m. yesterday
Mrs. Fish telephoned TO a drug store and told
them to send her a bottle Of chloroform lni-
ment She had been in the habit Of using this,
IL is said, for a sore ear with which she was
troubled. When the boy came from the drug
store with the medicine. Mrs. Fish received It
from him. She was scantily clothed.
The maid says she said to Mrs Fish: You
had better be careful you viii catch your
death Of cold"
We'll I might as well die now rs at any
other time she replied.
Then she told the girl that she was going 70
lie down on her bed and that she didn't wish
20 he disturbed until evening.
At $50 o'clock Captain Fysh returned 70 his
home. He asked the Eirl where her mistress
was. She told him that she asleep and
did not wish TO be disturbed Then. the girl
says. she went on preparing the dinner. About
half an hour later Captain Fysh told the girl
she had better cali her mistress so that she
might get ready for dinner The girl went
into Mrs. Fish's room, saw that she was ap-
parenty asleep. and touched her hand TO
b0- I hp 10
10 Captain Fysh. who al once that his wife
was either unconscious or dead. BY her side.
on the he'd. was the empty four ounce bottle
which had contained the chloroform liniment.
The woman's nose and mouth were blistered.
and by the side Of her cheek was a piece Of
cloth saturated with the liniment. Her night
robe and the bed clothing were also saturated
with the stuff
Captain Fysh az once called DR.. c. W. Smith.
OF No 2SS1 Broadway. and returned 10 the
house with him. The doctor said Mrs. Fish
was dead, but declared that he believed il he
had been called half an hour earlier he might
have saved her life He informed Corson &
Son, undertakers. Of No 2.S4S Broadway. and
then the coroner's office.
Captain Fysh said his wife had been a suf-
ferer from a sore ear for the last eighteen
months. and that she had used chloroform lini-
ment on several occasions. II was l3 per cent
solution.
Captain Fysh met Mrs. Fieh about two years
ago in London She was then the widow Of
Captain Suggett Of Rochester. veteran Of the
Civil War. The couple were married I'm Edin-
Jurgh. Scotland. Mrs Fish was an accom-
plished singer and musician. Fysh is a native
OF Connecticut. He served in the British Army
in the Boer War. His troubles with Mrs. Inez
Hylands are fresh in the public mind. He ac-
cused her Of the larceny Of necklace, the prop
erty Of his wife, which was valued at SS.OO0.
He said that he gave It to Mrs. Hylands TO
raise money on and that he couldn't get the
ecklace back. The case went to General Ses-
sions. and after trial recently Mrs Hylands
was discharged. Fysh had much trouble with
his wife, because OF the case, but. apparently
their differences had been settled. At one time
she made a complaint against her husband.
charging him with the larceny Of the necklace,
but she did not press it. She declared I'm court
that she did not give the necklace 10 her hus-
band 70 raise money on. Some letters that had
passed between Fysh and Mrs. Hylands. who
was divorced from her husband. read At
the trial Of the necklace case. Mrs. Hylands
and Fysh met in South Africa when she was
living with her husband and renewed the ac-
quaintance after her divorce and Fyshs mar
riaEe
When CAPTAIN Fysh was told that his wife
was dead, he went the Corson undertaking
establishment, and had a conversation with John
n. Norris. the embalmer employed there. He
told Norris his wife dead, and that he
wished to have the body embamed. Norris said
he would get permission from the cOroner's
Office. The permit was obtained, ard Norris
and George II. COrson went around to the Fysh
apartments and embalmed the body.
In the mean time Mr.. Ciaryan had heard 0f
the death, and he called up Coroner Scholer
and told him not to allow the body 70 be en-
balmed. If 1t had not already been done. The
coroner his physician, DR. Schultz and Mr.
Garvan all reached the Fysh apartments about
the same time The embalmers had then fin
ished their work.
Coroner SChoer would only say that ne be-
Neved death due to heart failure. caused
by inhaling the fumes Of the chloroform. He
announced that there would be an autopsy to-
day. The police guard was withdrawn.