The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-23
FAMILY RETIGERT
ON TRAGIC INCIDENT
Year Ago Strangely Burned
About Face and Body
By an Acid

New York, june ss The strange
death 81 Miss Miriam Frances Bloom.
ar from cyanide of potassium poison.
ing Oh Wednesday evening IS a sealed
mystery along with HE story Of how
she was burned with acid year ago
Her brothers We're permitted 10 start
Tor Cincinnati with the body yester-
Jay
No further information was given
regarding the tragic accident. wnich
occurred in the apartment Of ). Ralph
llloomer brother than the state
ment iasuad by Coroner AcritelH that
the poison had been left IN a glass by
Miss Bloomers maid, who had been
cleaning iewelry.
The reticence on the part OF the
family, the physicians and the coroner
~ discuss the case wells the death OF
Miss Bloomer, who was at one time
the acknowledged hancee of Congress.
man Nicholas LGngw0rth in almost
as much mystery as was created just
q year ago. when Il became known
that she had been strangely burned
about the face and body BY an acid
j Ralph Bloomer, who IS a prosper.
Gus broker, and Martin b. Bloomer,
who is connected with the Link Chain
Belt company Of New Jersey, accom-.
panied the body w0ich will be buried
from the Bloomor hlme at the Hotel
Arms, Walnut Hills Cincinnati.
Yesterday Coroner Acritelli, who is-
81, Ell Ea. al az .
3ody on Wednesday night shortly after
ae was called into the case. gave "A
lightly different version of the facts
lrom That which was supplied TO the
ew papers on the night oi the TRACE
49, While discussing The case, tie
coroner exhibited the glass from
which the fatal drsught was taken
nd which still contains as sediment
quantity Of cyanide OF potassium
ufdcient to kin a dozen people.
j. Ralph Bloomer, who was former
tar halfback on several Yale football
cams. has figured strangely in the
lie of his sister woo was tall, queen
y, always exquisitely gowned and de-
cribed as being splendid type OF
The American beauty
| llloomer was notified by his sisters
Maid that Miss Bloomer had been ser
iously burned with acid during the
ilght He went to her bedroom. bat
vas unable To get an explanation oil
the strange state OF affairs. Mis-.
Iloomer was in a seni-hypn0hc state
but marks on the side Of her face, hel
body. one hand and a limb showed
that she had in some strange wa,
been the victim of acid.
"The glass did not contain watel
| when Miss Bloomer rushed into IN,
bathroom of her brothers. apartment
| 20 relieve q choking sensation caused
| Dy eating O cracker he said
She evidently took no heed of whai
She was doing as right by the side o
Ae glass which she took WIS another
glass, which either she or the maid
Jeanne Pior.e, had filled With pur,
water for the purpose OF ripslng bel
buckle which had first been placed n
the glass containing the cyanide solu
| lion TO remove tarnish
The coroner said there was no
enough of the poison IN tie untOuch
ed GLASS 10 have seriously harmed Tho
young woman. The statement of Dr
Forbes Hawkes. who lives IN the ad
Joining house aud who WAS summon
ed Immediately after the accident
with lne circumstances as related b.,
the maid and j. Ralph Bloomes. con
ymced the coroner. he said. that d,
| would not be Justified ia nolding
formal inquest
The doctors who We're called n
could not rouse the patient and weri
dnahle TO make a diagnosis which wa.
even satisfactory 10 themselves, III
ually claivoyant Mrs. Pandora
was taken 10 The sick room. with th'
none that the beautiful girl Nigh
! tYieA % the influence of mystles. bu
this, too tailed OF satisfactory result
no ihe newspapers the family alter
natcly denied and confirmed the sto9,
oi the burning but the true cifeum
stances. ID known % the imme4iatl
relatives. were never revealed ta IA,
public. AS soon as she WAS able I,
! De removed, Miss BlOomer apne6Tei
az Saranac Lake. whore she remained
in practical seelusion until Septem
her
Yesterday Ralph Bloomer was Gl
most nrnsirated by the shock at his
sisters death and romaincd an day IN
ihe aparment where the accident oc.
cWIed until time % leave on the
Pennsylvania Omitted .by which the
body WAS removed en route 10 taelr
FORMER home.
4 cen make no explanation he
aid through a friend 10 was such a
terrible accident that am NOT yer
QFff nv il,st shock MYsisicr was M
the AaFpiest frame Of mind when /