The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13

rMsladelphsa PsS slTtan. Nxed -. MlNss
Peaasn af a. anld~ ~ Potassium and
Ne and Els WHe, ~. TBrtRk u Roth
1yle while B~ins Taken tO hospital.
PMTsApELPHIA March l,.-Tsrror 81
poverty which mad oVertaken them m
their old age. led nr. Charles Coleman
p~nson. nearly - ysars old, and his wife,
IaaheUe a.. 90 end th.ir lives this morn
ma by drinking poison an their. room at
lsts F1lbsrt street The physician left
a letter diTsc,,d 10 Mrs. Ada S.arr who
runs the lodging h",I-s IN which the pair
r~eidst asN ,ng hsr - have tho hodien
erpJnaf-i and ofering m compensation
HE beloug,nEs N ,he hou-e and any
money which might IN. sent To him after
his death
Dr Benson came h-rs from baltimore
and was sad g. ba a British ~,Ibi@ct
That tho old Ta,r had deliberately entered
into a -ptcid' I,ar' - pToSs~i nv the state
meut N ~ letter 80 MIR. starr Il,at they
had Cour,yl.-i Sui,,ds aud hv the sVi-
ds-u~e az The conditions under witch they
-~r~ found dying
Seat~d ~ ~" table the doctor. had
poured ~ anld~ of potassium into two
uIruhl~r-. on~ oG which he had pas@sd 70
his wife spontaneously they drank
tie dsadlr contents ~ the glasses and
iell tu the aoor unconscious on opposite
aides " 1r~ ,ahls Mrs starr heard the
noise and Called tho police They w~rr
then taken ~ the I~dlco- Ch,uIrRical
Hospital but hN,h d,ed during th. iu~lr-
rey
pr. Benson had done 'uuch research
work ~ he effort In find q cure for con.
sInipsiop Ind had perfected a unsthod
~ treatment vhICh he submitted IN com
p~titirn ToT ths t2nN ~p0 pviys hsld out
by the French Academy ~ Medi~ine
Tor a cur" HIS treatise on tuberculosis
was cent 30 France ~ ian7 and hs irmiy
believed that ne had won the prize. al
though he had got nv uihs, word from
The acRdsmy than that his CoInmunica-
lion hal Nesn received
ne. ard Mrs Berson are suppo.d TO
have come 10 this CITY about last Sepiem-
Der They resided for time AZ ia;O Arch
street and sftsrwaNi a. IJl North Twenty
first street From The latter place they
moved 70 the Fill,eTt -tr-Asst hpuas about
. week ago When they left twenty -tirs,
street theV owed the land adv she said
. btl Of Sts She did not prsrs for the
money. however ,h~ believed Or
benecp would pay y a. soon a. 10 sas
abl.s
A. um~s the pair hecarn- d..Spondeut
ialked ~ drowning herself II matters
dif not Improve The husband also hsd
spoken Of killing himself by poison
After movip z IN The Filh~rt street house
the eNistslc~ ~ he paw became more
prerarious Than ever Th.. Goronsr found
neither u'ouev nor food ~ ~. MON
Thew Wen. some valuable rpedicai bOokA
apd the~s with patents ard designs Tor
household and trade specialties which
Dv Ben-on had oriRina'Si were offered
and 'ro'Ibls IN having the hoCiI~~ Gre
the cons
BALTIMORE March ~ Or e. Z Rem
son, who Nth his wife committed suicide
N Philadelphia to-day lived here until
ak months ago. when he lett the city az
/, O'Clock ~ the morning and had not been
heard from s.nue
Or henson Ear graduated from the
Uni' ersitv of MARYLAND ~ 1893 lie
rrActssed Tor son's tim" IN Baltimore and
thea travelled extensively throu ghout the
rD1ntrv ~ different t'r1ssS he returned
70 b lttUorc and had Us - IN various pari-
n the rIr- II was sunounCed that he
hpd discovered WONDERFUL '1ire TOR con
aalrnptIcD that ~-ls ABSOLUTELY SURF The
dpgtor vent deeply INTO the scheme that
be- had evolved md poured hts story into
fhs eaTs 80 some N tOo Crrbulous report
eers. vho gave 10 scheme vide publicity
The doctor pan va looked, Iutr nv
the local phyAicisns and tuberculosis 49,
peris and ~ va not approved The
dortor -aemai - 80 nurh distressed
that other PHYSICIANS were unwilling 70
incorse his cum