The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-30
Mrs. Frank L. Kaiser Makes
a Fatal Mistake and Puts a
Deadly Poison in Dumplings
Instead of Baking Powder.
DELAY IN GETTING AID
PROVES TO BE FATAL
Physicians Who Are Called Are
NOnpIuSed for a TimeI Un-
til Woman Remembered of
Putting Rat Poison Into Can,
POWDER TO BE EXAMINED

4 S the result Of installing an ar
"A senic compound for baking
powder, Mrs. Frank L. Kaiser of 348
Elizabeth avenue and her husband are
lying dead at the undertaking rooms
of S. D. Evans. The arsenic com.
pound was used as baking powder
in dumplings eaten by husband and
wife at a fatal Sunday dinner yes
terday.
The poison came from Rough on
Rats" which had been carelessly
placed in a baking powder can, and
which was mistaken for baking pow
der by Mrs. Kaiser in preparing the
dumplings.
When the Kaiser FAMILY moved to the
house about three months ago they found
a number OF cans containing Rough on
Rats These were all empted into one
baking powder can Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Kaiser made some dumDlings In
Ter hurry 10 get them prepared for din
neri she took the can containing the
Rough on Rats" and placed the powder
in the dumplings, thinking it was bak-
ing powder.
At 4 o'clock she and her husband sat
down to dinner. Several of the dumpings
were eaten, and at the time Mrs Kaiser
remarked to her husband that the bak-
ing powder must have been very poor, as
the dumplings had failed TO rise. At about
4.29 o'clock both were seized with severe
cramps. Various remedies were taken.
none of which relieved the pain. AS the
pain increased the neighbOrs We're called
n q n Ill 7.sI1
and A. r. Irvine arrived. The Kaisers
we're unable TO tell the physicians the
cause of their illness.
The physicians learned later Of the pow
der being used in the dumplings. The can
was secured, but as there was no label
upon it they did not know the nature of
the poison.
Mrs. Kaiser then remembered that when
she moved into the house she had taken
some Rough on Rats" from some cans
and poured il into the baking powder can.
Arsenic antidOteS were administered, but
the poison had done its deadly work.
When the physicians left the house at
$50 D. M the patients were somewhat
easier. At o'clock DR.. BrOwnfield re-
ceived a telephone message telling him
that the woman was suffering from
hemOrrhage of the stomach. When the
doctor reached the house the woman was
unconscious and died within few mo-
ments.
Mir. Kaiser was removed to the L. D. S
hospital. in the hope that his life might
be saved. He gradually grew worse,
however. and at o'clock he died
Kaiser was a railroad engineer and a
member Of salt Lake Lodge No. IT'S of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
For several years he was employed as an
engineer on the oregon Short Line and
served his last time at POcatellO. After
leaving the service of the railroad COM
Dany he was employed as furniture fin
Usher for the Warren Paul Furniture COM
pany.
The local lodge of Locomotive Engineers
will take charge of the bodies until Tela-
tives in. San Francisco and Kansas City
are heard from.
The can from which the powder was
taken will be turned over 10 City Chemist
Herman Harms today for analysis.