The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-04-22
Police Anxious TO Know
Where DellrOy Fox Got
Deadly Drug.
Absence of Parents and
Neighbor Makes Search
a Difficult One.

Convinced that Dellroy Fox. tie
I2yearold daughter Of d. A. Fox.
1904 Rainier nv. died from arsenic
+ poisoning. bat unable to account for
| the means by which the child 80.
Z cured the drug. Coroner r 81. Car
froli last night reported the matter
{ 10 the police and asked that figid
Investigation BE- made
/ ~ already stated IN The star,
Coroner Carroll il satisfied from an
examination Of the contents Of the
chllda stomach By Osaeward a
Rubeu1eln. analytical chemists.
that death vas due 10 arsenic pois-
onlng After fruitiesa efforts 10
learn just how the infant could Sc
cure the poison. Coroner Carroll adj
mifs himself baffled
+ II the Fox child vas poisoned
accidentally or II the fatal drug VAS
+ purpoaelY administered. Coroner
+ Carroll wants the facts The cor
ioner has 40 deep suspicion that any
thing criminal enters into the ms
tery. but b Is unable to brush away
the doubts surrounding the childs
death
Detectives At Work.
With the mystery unexplained,
the coroner last night notified Ser
Eeant Of Detectives Charles Ten
nauf who Immediately detailed De-
tctives Adams and Clark The fact
that NJ and Mrs. box and Airs 3.
a. Esry. who was with the child
shortly before 1t was attacked with
commissions. are absent from the
city. left the detectives little TO
work upon They did find. however.
that several different stories are
told OF what the child was doing
Just prior 10 lis fatal Illness. These
stories are being ran down to learn
the truth
The Fox girl. q beautiful. bright,
attractive child. vas playing about
the home At 1904 Rainier av. last
Thursday afternoon. Mrs :. 4.
Esry. who lives IN an adjoining fiat.
entered the Fox apartments and
was with Dellroy for abou, 20 min
uies. when she returned the child
20 tie parents.
Child Seemed Nervous.
Mrs. Esry remarked that the child
scented nervous Mrs Fox replied
that she believed Dellroy 10 be hun
cry and sleepy. She placed the
baby In a high chair and prepared
for Il a bowl OF milk and crackers.
The child had been eating hni a
feW minutes when II screamed for
its mother.
In less than two hours the child
was dead An autopsy performed
by Drs. :. y. Wiltsio and c. r iioye
showed traces OF poison IN the stonl-
ach. and a subsequent examination
Of the contents OF the stomach. or
dered BY Coroner = NJ. Carroll. was
made by osseward a Rubenstein.
unmistakable traces of arsenic we're
present The milk and crackers. 81
which the child had been eating.
revealed no traces OF poison.
Following the autopsy Mr. and
Mrs Fox took the body to Zillah.
Wash. near North Yakima. where
Il was buried The parents of the
dead child are now at North Yaki-
ma II is not known when they viii
return 10 Seattle.
Mrs. Esry Departs
Mrs. s A. Esry and her 4-yearold
son left for Waitsbure. in Walla
Waila county, Monday night 1t is
not known when they will return
To Seattle
Detectives Clark and Adams
found l.. r. Pridemore. a brother of
Mrs. Fox. at the home last night.
Pridemore was present when Dell
Investigation himself. lie stated
last night he was much mystified
Pridemore told the detectives he
could think of no possible place
where the child could secure the
deadly drug.
Mrs. Esry Is certain that nellroy
could secure no poison in her apart
ments." said he. When the child
was seized by commissions. Mrs.
Esry rushed back into her apart
ments Ia see II Dellroy had gotten
hold OF some pills or tablets Mrs.
Eary said the child got none of
her pills.
Mrs. Esry Excited.
In the excitement, while Dcllroy
was in commissions, Mrs. Esry. was
somewhat excited. She said she
had not let the baby from her arms.
guess she did not mean that as
Deliroy had been To the grocery
with her The child ate a sweet.
cake in the grocery. but that must
have been all right. because Mrs.
Esry ate half OF Il"
On the day of its death Mrs. Esry
took the child 90 show to DR. A. u.
Wilson. who had Just moved into
the building. Detective Clark talked
with nr. Wilson last night, who.
stated tina, the child had been play.
ing in the halls near his office The
relatives OF the child thought Il
possible that an arsenic tablet might
have been dropped near the doctors.
Office.
Detective Clark says he is not
satisfied as TO all the facts, but until
the parents return, further progress.
will he slow Detective Clark
thinks that every movement of the,
Fox child should be known from
the time Il left the home with Mrs