Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-05
HUNT SUSPECT FOR
POISONED ROLLS
SENT 70 PASTOR
lrvington Police After Eccentric
Man Who Threatened Life
of Clergyman.


Nhief Alexander Green, of the lry-
ington police. has all the members OF
his force today hunting for a rowing
resident of that own whom they sus-
pect of having placed arsenic sufficient
10 kill a score of persons on breakfast
oils delivered at the home of the Rev
Frederick f. Noegelin, of al -Four
teenth avenue. Mr.. Voegelin is pastor
of the Manhattan Park German Pies
byterian Church, and the man under
suspicion is a former member OF the
congregation, who is known to have
Threatened the life of the pastor Oh
several occasions.
About two weeks ago Mrs. Voegelin,
the pastors wife, went to the rear
ssoop of their home, as a been her
custom, to gather the rolls which had
been left by a Newark bakery. When
she picked up the rolls it was just
hyeaking day. and she did not notice
anything peculiar until they were
Ls-Sught to the gas-lighted dining
iSon.
sfANe must have had frost this morn
ipg," she said TO her husband. 'fhe
rolls are covered with frost"
.-That isn't FROST" said the clergy
man as he took up one of the rolls and
made a careful examination.
lit must be flour. them said thu
wife. as she proceeded to cat one OF
them With her coffee.
-ron't eat tha roll" said the hus-
balld in alarm. II think there is she
thing wrong
Although the wife did not agree with
him, she went with him to the dius
Stare OF William \. Saul. 517 South
nf,.ngu avenue. this city. Saul said
fEat Il looked Us il every one of tie
r1.,s lad some foreign substance. and
he. advised Il chemical analysis. Then
TIC rolls were turned over to Sergeant
hi.kbzidc, OF The lrvinston police de-
partment. and he turned hen over to
Edain Berry. secretary of the Irving
te4f Buard Of Health. He gave them to
~. b. ~FitzRandolph, chief of the &C.
pAr.ment of food and drugs OF the
Siate Board of Health, and asst night
tEs %lrvington police were told that
each Ct the half a dozen rolls con
fsined enough poison to kill four per-
SOUS.
rrhis stirred the Irvington police to
scIion, and they began a search for a
MA whom everyone in l%rvington knew
tn have threatened the life of the
Clergyman. This man is an eccentric
character, and has frequently figured
in police court. He had trouble with
the neighbors, and has threatened
lfqre thar one I%rvington resident. 1t
Is said tina he was peculiarly bitter
towards the pastor, blaming him for
his strained domestic relations.
From what the police hav gathered,
some time ago this man became
estranged from his wife. When he
sought a reconciliation he invoked Mr..
Voegelin, and through the clergyman
TIE wife returned to her husband.
When she left him again this man
again tried, without avail, to get the
clergyman to plead with her, but he
refused. This so angered the man that
he. said he would kill the clergyman.
The man under suspicion has been
in and out of Irvington for the past
six months. The police say that they
have evidence that he was seen about
the town on the morning the poisoned
rolls were found. He has not been seen
since that time.
Discussing the attempted poisoning
In his home today, Mr.. Voegelin said:
asThis man is of an eccentric char
acter. He has had several e~scapades
ard has frequently made threats
a against several persons. His wife left
him several years ago when the couple
attended my church.
"He came to me and implored me to
bring about a reconciliation. This ]
finally succeeded in doing. but because
of the mans eccentricities and treat
ment of her, she again left him. Since
that time he has annoyed me by COM
ing to my house and importuning me to
try to effect another reconciliation. /
always told him that I could do 10
more and that | did not know where
his wife was. This seemed to anger
him and at times he approached me in
a threatening manner
s.Dne Sunday last fall he came to
my. house when | was entertaining
friends and | asked him to leave. He
did so. and later when I went to my
church while a young peoples service
i'll progress ] was told that he had
been to the church.
HThe young men present succeeded in
him out of the church and l
not seen him since"