New-York tribune., 1908-06-18
|,n0EES. GULPS POISON
a,>KS DRAFT WATER.
WATER.
= Tale's Crack Tackle Dies
1rst Before Dinner Party.

Frances Bloomer, twenty-nine
yiss ss,e1ter of James Frank Bloomer.
rssrs o'D = q, the Hotel Arms. Walnut Hills.
ssrs h''', I'D who since last January had been
saa1n'., ,-,tser. Ralph ]. Bloomer. broker.
en- "a Broad street, in apartments at the
N e,,a-e apartment house. No 40 East
drank a quantity Of cyanide Of
- ,sS, night in her brothers apartments
s. shortly sfterward-
81 "' woman had been eating a cracker,
H ..,-;rs had taken up a glass which she
. ,on,afned drinking water, but which
-o;sor which had been used earlier in
Miss Rlooner and her maid in clean
= C, s--ieles Of jewelry. Miss Bloomer and
s-,,her planned to go to dinner She play
.,,,n,sined Of being ''famished' with her
q =, and n1unched a cracker.
..,ns- had about finished dressing for the
when his sister announced she was
-. and when he heard her choking
80 M; 10 her 10 get glass of water and
= n get il for her. She told him 10 go
-. his dressing that she would get it,
., u-arked out Of the front parlor and
a . rrivate hail TO the bathroom
-r7eE
"a IN the bathroom. one containing
,be other cyanide of potassium The
~. hasr5 her scream. and. running TO her.
~-i her say;
= ps,rh. quick. I've swallowed poison
-,,r glass. Run quick. Get Doctor
h-o-he- caught his sister up in his arms
with her 10 the Darlor. The brother
h -so,as for Dr. Forbes Hawkes.. Of No II
a,,s street. adjoining the Madison Square
s1ment house.
:. doctor used stomach pump. and. de-
!, ,,,,ck work found his efforts unavailing.
R,ooner died very shortly after the arrival
"a uawkes- The brother said he had tried
i. .-,s some uhiskey down his sisters throat,
sba Was unable 70 swallow it.
,,,tsir NcCauley. Of the Dew West Doth
= s-a+ion. sent a detective TO the apart
:. boysa Coroner AcritelH spent an hour
: half talking with the brother and the
,f Jsanne Pierre.
-p maid said she with Miss Bioomer. had
= cleaning some Of Miss Bloomes's jewelry
--r he afternoon. and she had bought some
urse q potassium The jewelry was dropped
,s glass and rfnsed of in the water in an
.r glass Miss BIoomer. the maid said. had
r-a her against the poison.
a-oper Acritelli gave permission 10 send the
r n Miss Boomer 70 her Cincinnati home
saE
N Boomer following his sisters death.
III up or the telephone the friends with
sr he and his sister were 10 have dined and
ua sn excuse for his inability 10 60 10 din
e ~ hut the brother was unable TO say. over the
sIhane. The real reasqn-that his sister was
&
Kiss Boomer. according 10 both the brother
. nd ne maid. was in an unusually happy frame
ul1 al afternoon. and seemed TO look for
var, 70 the dinner party with pleasure She
Rs . have ended her visit in this city in July,
EhE shf Vas 70 have returned TO Cincinnati
Ths tsiber 4 the young woman is a retired
rsl-0ai Esn. and was formerly connected with
~ Glazsti Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
4 s-zaz Martin B. Bloomer. is connected with
p L1E Chain Belt Company. II New Jersey.
M ~ars ago Bloomer came 70 1his city and
1-s IN the brokerage business wher= he Is
saad Il the firm Of Ralph ! Bloomer & Co
s and 80 Broad street. He Is q Yale man
'r three years was tackle on The Yale foot
! team