Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-15
Wester|y's Seventeenth SuddenDea
Not All Due to Poisoned Whiskey, However Officials Continue Investigations in Suspicious Cases-Nation al and State Authorities Interested-Pans for Census Takin king-Seventh-Day kaptist Church Business Meet inu.

1 Closely following the death of Dan I 1el Sullivan at White Rock Wednesday evening, comes the sudden deaths of
 John Fry at his home in Pearl street, 1 Westerly, and of Rosario Patti at the boarding house of Frank Schillibia, 21 Downer street. Pawcatuck, which made I the tctal number of sudden deaths in this section sixteen within ten days, up to noon of Thursday.
 John Fry had just entered his 74th year and was a man of good character and habits. and the alleged poisoned whiskey'' had nothing to do with his death. He had been sick for nearly six months with kidney trouble, but was able to be out of doors daily and when he retired Wednesday night appeared to be in his customary health. Soon after midnight he became seriously ill. the disease having taken an acute turn. MT. Fry gradually became weak CT and at 5.3O Thursday morning he died.
 MT. Fry came to Westerly from East Greenwich about twenty years ago and his last employment was with Walter P Dixon as a frostler. He served in the Civil war as Q private in Company F. Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy ar tillery regiment, an organization com posed of colored men, He was a mem | Der of Budlong post, G. A. R., of West erly. He leaves 9 daughter, Mrs. Peter
 Webster, with whom be resided in
 Pearl street, and a son. There was
 nothing of suspicious nature in con-
 nection with his death.
 Four hours after the death of Mir.
 Fry came the sudden death of Rosario Patti, shoemaker, with shop at 72 Liberty street. For several weeks MT. Patti has complained of pains in the chest and severe headache, and each
 morning before going to work took a drink of whiskey, but could not be con sidered a man who was a habitual drinker. His pains became so intense that he remained at home Tuesday and Wednesday, but did not call a physi7 elan. He became worse early Thurs day morning and at g o'clock Dr. John l.. May was summoned, and when he arrived Rossario Patti was dead.
 Dr. George D. Stanton, medical ex- aminer of the town of Stonington, was notified and with Dr. May made in quiries as to the history of the case, but could learn nothing that would fin- dicate death by poison. save blindness that preceded death, which might have been caused by wood alcohol, or the natural consequence of an ending life of Bright's disease.
 Coroner Brown was notified and ar rived in Westerly at 12.45 from Nor witch and consulted with Drs. Stanton and May and with Deputy Sheriff Will liam H. Casey in William A. Wilcox's office in Pawcatuck- The coroner or dered the body removed to Gavitt's undertaking establishment, where post mortem examination was made by Dr. Rush w. kinlba1l of Norwich and Med- teal Exan1lner stanton Of StOn1ngtOn, assisted by Dr. c. Grant Savage of Westerly.
 The autopsy was thoroughly made and nothing was found to indicate the presence of poison of any nature or that Patti had died from anyNnnatural cause.
 MT. Patti came to Pawcatuck from Italy about two years ago and opened @ shoe repairing shop and was consid- cred to be industrious and well be haved. He was of fine physique and of good appearance and had served in the Italian army. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a son, Angelo Patti of Westerly and ,GuiSSippe Patti of Wakefield.
 While the Westerly authorities were