The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-22
CORONER THINKS IT'S POISON
INVESTIGATION FOLLOWS DEATH
OF WOMAN IN TIE BRONX.

Married to Her Mothers BOarder. WeddIn
IL Not Revealed Until AFTER w IL
DeAd-MOther says First the COu pie
ouarrelIed. but Changes statement.
Coroner S~chwannecke OF The Bronx yester-
day began an investigation into the cir
cumstancee surrounding the death Of Mrs.
Margaret Marcy, which occurred lat the
home Of her mother. Mrs. Sheridan, 677 East
liist street, shortly before 8 O'Clock yester-
day morning. The Coroner acted on the
advice Of pr. Thomas Curtin, the Coroner's
physician, who reported that the symptoms
shown in the short illness that preceded the
death OF the woman were such as to de-
rnand an autopsy and analysis to determine
whether or not poison was the cause OF
death.
When the Coroner and his physician first
vent to the house where Mrs. Marcy had
died Mrs. Sheridan, the mother OF Mrs.
Marcy, said that George Marcy, her SON
in.law. had a quarrel with his wife. Later
che retracted his statement. She is rs
years old and she explained that she had
only just learned that Marcy and her
daughter had been married a year and
that she was excited over it. The fact
that Marcy, who had lived in her house
ostensibly as a boarder for three years.
was the husband of her daughter was de-
veloped by the Coroner yesterday afternoon
Coroner Schwannecke had asked Mrs.
Sheridan for the full name OF her daughter
and che had given Margaret Sheridan as
answer. Then Marcy spoke up.
Margaret Marcy was her name" said be.
" we're married over a year ago, but
thought il best to keep our marriage a Sc
cret.' He then produced a certificate Of
marriage, which showed that Margaret
Sheridan and George Marcy were married
on August 20, 1905. in st. Luke's Roman
Catholic Church by the Rev. Father Boyle.
When Marcy made this statement Mrs.
Sheridan grew hysterical.
Il want you to arrest that man, " she said.
sHe has lived here in this house deceiving
me. and he has had constant quarrels with
my daughter. Last Friday night, just be-
fore she was taken violently i'll, he quarreled
with her for two hours"
An hour later. after Mrs. Sheridan had
consulted with her other s~on-in-law, George
Mcdonald, a widower, who has been board
ing with her during the time Marcy has been
in the house, she told Coroner Schwannecke
that she regretted her accusation and re-
tracted II. The Coroner ordered that no
arrests EOOulO Dt WHOe Unless an analysis
showed poison.
Mrs. George Marcy. or Miss Sheridan,
had been employed as a buyer for a firm
in Brooklyn and had a good salary. On
Friday night she went TO visit a cousin.
returning home late. She began TO COM
plain Immediately Of severe pain and grew
violently i'll. DIR. j. j. Burns of 800 Fast
l4lst street found her suffering from violent
nausea and threatened with commissions
He treated her for ptomsine poisoning.
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again summoned and found Mrs, Marcy
again in extreme pain and afflicted by
nausea. The remedies he administered
failed TO affect her. Atio'clocG she seemed
hypodermic injection OF morphine. A third
time the physician was called, at > O'Clock
yesterday morning. and again he admin
lstered morphine and a stimulant TO aid the
heart action.
At ! O'Clock Yesterday morning another
call came for DR.. Burns. In his absence on
another CO - his assistant, Or. Edward T..
Corbett Of 25T Amsterdam venue answered
the call. He found Mrs. Marcy dead. DR..
Corbett reported the death 10 DR.. Burns
and the latter Immediately notified DR..
Curtin. the Coroner's PHYSICIAN.
Curtin reported to the Coroner the facts
in the case az observed by DR.. Burns and
recommended that an autopsy be made.
When the Coroner and his physician went
"a, the Sheridan house to make an investi-
cation they learned. among other things,
that Marcy, the husband Of the dead woman,
had once been a chemist and druggists
clerk, but that he had not had employment
for three years.
Capt. Hayes Of the Alexander avenue
station sent Detectives Heaney and Ray to
the house to make further investigation.
To the detectives Mrs. Sheridan said that
she had been mistaken when she declared
thai Marcy and her daughter had had a
violent quarrel on Friday night just before
her daughters seizure. She also said
that Mrs. Marcy had taken dinner with a
wholesale salesman at the Hotel Albert
at noontime on Friday. at which time lobster
had been a part Of the menu served. IL was
this that had made her daughter sick, she
believed.
DR.. Curtin and DR.. Riegelman, the Coro-
ner's physicians. will perform an autopsy
on the body Of Mrs. Marcy this morning.
DR.. Curtin said last night that the symptoms
reported to him by DIR. Burns, the attending
physician, could not have been those Of
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