Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-30

PUT ARSENIC In DUMpLlNGs.
Unfortunate Mistake iii Cooking Din
ner Causes Deplorablc Results
Bot1l Die Within Few Hours.

i
The tlloughtless hlunder of failing to
cautiously mark a can of deadly poi.
son resulted yesterday in one of the
most pathetic tragedies in Salt Lakes
history-the death Of a husband slld
s wife following Sunday dinner pre-
pared by the wife, and the bare escape
58of another life.
Yesterday forenoon. as an especiai4
/ treat for the Sunday dinner, Mrs Frank
+; y. Kaiser, of 34S Elizabeth avenue, pro-
3 pared a chicken dinner with dumplings.3
& Int he preparation Of the dumplings.
Z two and u half teaspoonfuls of the
whitish powder was taken from can
labeled Royal Baking. Powder but
which in reality contained pure ar-
n senic. While eating the dinner Mr..
and Mrs. Kaiser were taken sick, and
entered into the throes that resulted
lin the death of the wife at $50 O'Clock
and the husband three hours later. The
fact that they had begun their dinner
early,8#Whilc Mrs. Hannah Elder. an
I elderly woman. was at church, alone
s saved the latter from the similar death
OF arsenic poisoning, since q plate Of
the chicken and poisoned tiumplings
had been laid aside for her. i
The Victims of the tragical poisoning
= were aged about so and 40 years, the
wife being the elder. Mr.. Kaiser was
4 a well known railroad engineer and
With9his Wife resided with Mrs. Hattie
James at 434 west Fifth North street
for he past two years 8up.to about
month ago when they removed to GAS
Elder still maintained one room. while
4 Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser occupied the re-
manning rooms of the house.
BoRRoWsb FATAL POWDER.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Kaiser had
g decided on a chicken dinner, and Mr.
( Kaiser killed one of their own fowls.
ling the meal. Mrs. Kaiser had found
that she had, no baking powder. and
stepped into Mrs. Eldel's room. asking
q if shcscould borrow some. In the
pantry Mrs. Elder found a can, la
asheled Royal baking powder, which had
\ been left&there by her tdaughterrin-law.
\ Mrs. "A. b, Elder, and gave it to Mrs.
z Kaiser. With the jolly, laughing in
ti1natlon that Mrs, Elder would have d
chicken dinner when she returned from
church, Mrs. Kaiser took the can.
While in the midst Of $theSfneal both
Mr.. and Mrs. Kaiser were taken sud-
s3denlyesick and both left the table in
agony. running to the rear porch
where their screams of tho wrench
neighbors. Both{complained Of the ter.
! rife agony of their stomachs, and their
pain WAS such that Mrs. James, their
friend was hurriedly called, as we'll
as Dls Irvine and Brownsfeld.
IS .s5 S IlGCUMB no POISON
he physicians on their first axttin-
4 nation found the symptoms OF arsenic
POISONING and began&to, such an extent
8 that the most drastic treatment was
fyttl, 1frxr T,,.
* cal aid. however, Mrs Kaiser sue
$cnlited at 3: 80 o'clock. In the hope of
3 savipr3 the husband's3lfe he was hnr-
ried to the DR.. Groves l.. d. S. hos
Elt; shortly after the death of Mrs.
Kaiser, but he too. succumbed to the
poison two hours later.
PATHETIC FEATURE
The pathetic feature OF the tragedy
was In the realization of approaching
Z !ieatil 4 both the husband and wife.
\ During the hours OF agony both the
q husband and wife retained a clear in
telllect and the thought or each.was for
the other. UP to Within q few moments
OF her death the wife hewailed what
q te&considered her own fault and her
( uppermost thought was the suffering
which she had brou, snt upon her hus-
band BY unwitting1y asing the arsenic.
instead of baking powder When the
husband, tortured under the pain of the
i poison. was Informed Of the death of.
his Wife he expressed as his only wish
Z that he might die too. and Join his
helpmate.
Before Mrs. Kaiser died she directed
the disposition of her possessions. and
In the belief that her husband would
8 live directed that all be given over to
her mother-in-law until the recovery.
of her husband. An hour later. real
izing that death was near, Mr. Kaiser
made his last Will.
ENOUGH TO KILL TEN.
The quantity of arsenic placed un-
knowingly in the dumplings was suf
ticient the doctors say, to have killed
10 people. Before her death Mrs.
Kaiser told the attendants at her bed
side that she had remarked to her hus-
band that the takTg powder she lad
used wasn't much good" because the
dumplings didn't raise
Mrs Kaiser is survived by two sons
by a former husband, the elder, Guy
Rarrick residing at Fresno, Cal, and
the younger in Nevada.
Mr. Kaiser's parents reside In Kan
sas City, and telegram to them last
night regarding the tragedy brough
an answer this morning 10 the effect
Ia hold the bodies here until tho ar
rival of a brother of Mr.. Kaiser The
bodies of tho husband and wife ara
lying in Evans mortuarN,