The evening world., 1911-11-04

had made love to her and sought her
hand.
No theory will be advanced that Mrs.
vcrmilya slew the policeman in a jeal-
Gus rage. for her career was not that
Of q woman who gave way to erotic
passions. That a small host of men
came INTO her life there Is no doubt.
ana the police last night questioned C.
c. Boyesen, an undertaken with whom
she was very Intimate. It Is known
that Boyesen made an effort to obtain
B%issonette's body from the hospital be.
fore any OF the suspicious clrcum-
stances connected with his death wore
Investigated. The brother OF the dead
policeman related the following clrcum-
stances of his death to-day:
II went to Mrs. Vermilya's home
when my brother made his will and
next day sent my family physician. DR..
Charles Sawyer. to see the patient. I
had noticed while In the sick room
that my brother was vomiting and I
called DR.. Sawyer's attention to this.
He could not verify my suspicious OF
poison. but ordered my trother removed
to the hospital"
Continuing. the brother said that h
was with Policeman Bissonette when he
died. and that Ave minutes after the
breath left his body the undertaken
with whom Mrs. Virmilya was on such
intimate terms entered the hospital and
asked that the body be turned over to
him. He said that Mrs. vermilya had
sent him for II. How he could have an
ticipated the death OF B%issonette Ia one
Of the things that puzzled the police.
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body he was confronted by the brother
OF the dead man n told to q X him
self OF.
Aside from the fact that in the case
Of many OF the deaths that are attrib-
uted to Mrs. vermiiya she prohted by
life insurance. Detectives say there is
. strong parallel between this great
poison mystery mi the case Of Miss
Tappan. the Boston nurse. Miss TapDan
killed her patients for the sheer pleas
ura OF seeing them die. She afterwards
admitted she found q degenerate de-
light In watching the gradual dissolu-
ton Of her patients and the climax OF
death. The Boston p~oisoner was ulu-
mateiy ad;udsed insane.
sMIrh HAD PREMoNiTIoN OF
SUDDEN DEATH.
Thomas M. Burlington. a photographer
OF Peoria. has informed the police that
he was intimately acquainted with Mrs.
vermilya and Smith. who was roomlng
with the woman. as Lissonette was
when he died.
II saw smith at Mrs. vermilya's
before his death last March, said the
photographer. a he seemed to have
premonition that something was CO.
linz 10 happen to him. He proposed to
me then that II either OF us should die
suddenly the survivor would investi-
gate the death. I agreed. but ] was
away from Chicago wh,n Smith died
ana did not hear OF 1t for months after
ward.
IT met Mrs. Vermiiya often In Smith
company" continued Burlington. and
began TO ,ike her myself. l never really
loved her. but I made love TO her. She
came to visit me several times In Pc
or,a. In the daytime she vas always
very Jolly, but the minute night fell she
changed She became gloomy and NOR
hid and talked constantly abont death.
she told me with a peculiar smile that
almost every one she lad known inti-
mately had met a sudden death. Then
she asked me II I was afraid OF death.
l didn't ike this line OF conversation
and II wasn't long before my acquaint-
ence with her ceased.
"When I finally lear ed OF Smiths
death I went to Chicago to see his par
ents. I urged them to make an inves-
tigation, but they were reluctant. With
out their cooperation l was unable to
do ANYTHING"
REVECIED IN DEATH, HAD
MANIA FOR HANDLING BODIES.
'.she appeared to revel In DEATH
said Undertaken Blocke OF Darlington.
81 never saw such a woman for belnr
anxious to work around dead bodies
she actually seemed to enjoy Il. ]
never employed her, but she went
around and said she wac working 10
me. For a couple OF years I could not
eel rid OF her, This was Just after Fred
Brinamp died and before she was
married to Vermilya.
"You know a man can't deny a woman
the right TO help him In that kind OF
work. And, besides. II Is no pleasant
ask, so when she wanted to help, why.
I lust let her go ahead. At every death
she would hear Of It almost as soon
as I and be not far behind mo at the
house to take care Of the body"
Coroner Hoffman md Captain OF De.
~tectives Harding say they have receive al
many statements just as strange and
uncanny az the declaration OF the
Peoria photographer. They are running
ali these stories down and constructing
a story that should prove to be one al
! the most amazing In the annals OF
crime. Relatives OF the two dead nus.
bands OF tne accused woman are hurry
ing to Chicago to assist In the inquiry,
and the insurance companies who paid
the death BENEFITS to Mrs. Vermilya are
taking a hand.
: Boyesen, the undertaken. when cues.
. toned by the police, explained hi,
promptness In claiming B%lssonette',
body by saving that Mrs. Vermllyn
: must have teiephoned to him befor,
4 death actually took place. Boyesen wa.
0 the undertaken who embalmed Smith,
=, body. He said to-day:
'If arsenic Ia found In Smiths bod,
I. Il was administered to him. for the EN-,
!. balming fluid ! used contained none"
: Boyesen denied having other than or
! dinary business relations with Mrs. Yer
ntlya.