Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-05-24
Mrs. Parry Victim
Of Her Own
Mistake.
HER SON AWAY
Sad Occurrence Casts a Spell
Of Gloom Over TOttenviIIe
'--NeighbOr Heard Pound
ing on Wall Rushed
into House.
Ipcoiol q the EVENINe NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Tottenyille, May 24:=Mrs. Gym
thia Parry, seventy-nine years old, of
241 Main street, Tottenville, is dead
ut her home and her husband, Rob
ert Parry. seventy-eight years old, Is
In a critical condition, from poison
which, 1t is believed, Mrs. Parry ac-
sidentally put into mullins, mistak-
ing it for baking powder.
Mr. and Mrs. Parry resided with
son Of Mrs. Parry by previous
marriage, John r. Rowlands, who
leIu here on Saturday for a visit to
Gettysburg, on one Of the three-day
excursion trips of the Pennsylvania
railroad. MIR. Rowlands, who is ,em-
ployed by McKesson & Robbins,
wholesale druggists, In New York
city, was reached by long distance
telephone at hotel In Gettysburg at
o'clock last night. He started for
home this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parry arose as usual
yesterday morning and had breakfast
in the kitchen, the meal consisting
principally of coffee, eggs and muf-
Ans. About O'Clock Mrs. William
T. Smith, who resides next to the
Parrys, heard someone knocking on
the wall She Immediately went In
to their apartment and found Mr..
Parry, still sitting al the table, and
vomiting violently. Mrs. Parry had
gone upstairs to the bathroom and,
when found, she was also vomiting,
Mr.. Parry told Mrs Smith that his
wife had used wrong powder in
making the mullins and had poisoned
them both. Mrs. Smith gave them
hot milk and the white of an egg.
Dr David Coleman, of Amboy ave-
nue., was summoned and worked over
the couple for more than an hour.
Mrs Smith telephoned to DR.. Frank
Ross, OF 278 Bridge street, Brooklyn
who arrived here at / o'clock IN the
afternoon. DIR. Ross, who is a SON.
ln-law of the couple, did all In HIS
power to save them but Mrs. Parry
died at 5 O'Clock. Mr. Parry is still
in a serious condition, but all danger,
1t is said, of the poison has passed.
II no reaction takes place, Dr. Ross
Bays, Mr.. Parry will recover.
Coroner Matthew j. Cahill, of New
Brighton, came to Tottenville about
1880 o'clock last night. He went to
the Parry house and took samples of
The mullins, coffee, eggs and milk,
that we're left on the breakfast table.
An autospsy was performed by the
coroner's physician, DR.. George Mord,
of Clifton, this morning on Mrs.
Parry, and her stomach was removed,
to ascertain what poison killed her
Both DR.. Ross and DR.. Coleman said
that the symptoms we're those OF ar
senic poisoning. Several cans were
found In the kitchen, all baking pow
der cans, with nothing on them but
the old baking powder labels to tell
what was In them. They were all
taken by the police and will be ana
lyzed to see what they contain.
Acting Captain Haerle, with sew
eral patrolmen of the 99th precinct,
and Detective Ihnkin, of the Rich
mond Borough Detective Bureau, are
making thorough Investigation.
John H. Parry, of Flatbush, Long
Island, son, and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Coarel, of 81 Hackett street, Brook
lyn, son-in-law and daughter, arrived
here yesterday afternoon Just before
Mrs. Parry died Mrs. Parry ceIe-
brated her seventy-ninth birthday an
niversary last Christmas with a fam
lily reunion and dinner
Both attended the South Baptist
church in Main street The sad oc-
currence has cast a gloom over the
community If Mr.. Rowlands had
been home he would probably have
mad shared a similar fate as did his
mother and step-father.