The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-19

were promptly summoned were puz-
zled. They could not determine what
corrosive poison had done the mis-
chief
1t was always denied that any bottle
containing poison or that had con-
tanned poison, was found in the young
lady's room. Detectives were employ
ed in vain-it was impossible to learn
where the poison had come from, or
how it had ben administered to the
young woman, who according to all
accounts, had fallen into a peaceful
slumber the night before. alone in her
room, and had not ben disturbed I'M
til her maid, entering at the usual
time in the morning, found her in
agony close to death.
The publication given to this mys-
Miss Boomers feelings concerning
her shattered romance. Her successor
in the affections of Nicholas Long
worth was still enjoying the blissful
triumphs of a honeymoon, read about
and talked about all over the world.
Was this beautiful girl at the height
Of her charms of person and mind a
hopeless victim of disappointed love?
Was she heartbroken? Had she sought
foregtfulness and peace in death?
After her recovery Miss Bloomer
went about her social pleasures and
duties, giving outwardly no sign of
being other than a heappy and care
free girl of unusual claims to the ad-
miration and love of men. There had
been nothing to indicate that the mem
bers of her own family saw reason to
mind and emotions.
Then, suddenly, when a great ma
tional event furnishes an incident pic
turing the settled domestic felicity of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
Mr.. Longworth's former sweetheart
drinks poison and dies.
The coincidence here noted does not
affect the formal accounts of the ira
gedy, accepted by Coroner Acritelli,
which are to this effect
Miss Bloomer and her maid Jeanne
Pierre, used cyanide of potassium in
cleaning some jewelry. and when they
had finished, Miss Bloomer told the
maid to put the glass containing it
away. She was going out to dinner
with her brother, who was late return
ing home from down town, and when
he returned he found her dressed and
ready to go.
She exhorted him to hurry and re-
marked that she was very hungry
Then she got some crackers which she
had in her room and began eating
them. Her brother heard her choke
slightly over the dry crackers and go
to the bathroom. In a moment she
ran from the bath room screaming
that she drank the cyanide instead of
water and tainted. Mr.. Bloomer called
DR.. Forbes Hawkes., but his sister died
soon after the doctor arrived.
Coroner Acritelli questioned the
maid, who had gone out about the
time Mr.. Bloomer came in, and decided
that the taking of the poison was the
result of a mistake. Two glasses
stood on the washstand, one contain
Ing water and the other cyanide.
Other investigator showed, it is
said, that Miss Bloomer did not drink
from any glass containing a solution
Of the poison for cleaning jewelry.
The only glass in the bathroom con-
tanning any fluid was one partly filled
with water, in which a belt buckle
after being treated to bath of the
cyanide-was rinsed.
The water in this glass did not con-
tain enough of the poison to serious
ly 1njure any one. The glass from
which Miss Blomer drank the fatal
dose did not contain any water when
she rushed into the bathroom. She
must have filled it at the tap. But
when the coroner appeared on the