The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-06
Attempted to Commit Sui
eide by Taking Arsenic
in Disguise
was kept UNDER CONSTANT
GUARD DURING LAST NIGHT
Was Formally Charged With Having
Caused the Death of Policeman Bis.
), ,s0nettc At Session of Court in Her
Home,

Chicago. Nov. 6.-Mrs. Louise Yer.
milya. charged with the murder of
Policeman Arthur Bissonette, was
formally placed under arrest today.
AfterWard she remained quiet on
her bed during preliminary hearing
held in her home. After a debate, the
hearing was postponed to November
~ and mittimus was issued ordering
ner committed to the county hospital.
me hearing as held in Mrs. Yer
miiya.s home owing to her illness.
Municipal Judge Walker and court
attaches all crowding into the MIA
oeoroom. She manifested little inter-
est IN the proceedings languidly an
swering the questions and at other
times mutely examining the faces Of
those about her.
Her alleged attempt at suicide by
sprinkltng her food with an arsenic
preparation resembling pepper con.
vtnced the police that she would be
safer under a direct watch than in her
nome and after a consultation yes
teroay the officers planned to remove
morning.
Municipal Judge Walker, who is-
sued the warrant for Mrs .Vermilya's
arrest, consented to hold court in her
room before her removal to the hos.
Rital and she will be arraigned: while
'stiIl In bed. 81
- +. Energetic methods to counteract
the effects Of arsenic which Mrs. Yer
ml!ya cunningly contrived to mingle
with her food in the presence Of her
guards yesterday were successful
Since the attempt at suicide, Mrs,
Vermilya has not been out of sight Of
one or more guards and every object
that she touches is frs: examined
either by detective or q trained
nurse.
Though on a condition bordering
on nervous collapse as a sequel Of her
narrow escape from death at her own
hands. the accused woman was pro-
nounced In fair physical condition.
id1asE Of her alleged yictifH, BfSE6a:
ette. ending in the mans death. DR.
trsdale. who 10 in chargs@of the
case and who also attended Bison.
cite. refused to say that she would
recover.
THE woman apparently will recov-
er." he said, unless she has access
to other supplies Of poison. She il
resourceful and cunning enough ia
evade her watchers and drug herself
again. That sh. should keep a dead
~ pOAoOAA aAhOA6 lSA AlkCNeu SUPPLIES,
where 1t would least be suspected. IL
a measure Of her capacity to deceive,
arsenic, being a mineral salt,
however. is so persistent and 80 diff
cult to eliminate from the system that
the woman may yet succumb to the
amount she has taken"
.A guard Of detectives and uniforms
ed policemen with a police matrou
and several trained nurses are watch
ing over Mrs .Vermilya night and day,
and she is never out Of the scrutiny
of at least one pair Of eyes. The
watchers relieve each other at short
intervals to prevent fatigue. causing
a lapse Of vigilance. The woman'a
bed and bed clothes. her sleeping gar
ments. her hair. and everything else
about her that could conceal poison
have been examined. ..
During one Of her lucid moments
that broke the deliriun following the
taking Of the poison. Mrs. vermilya
denied to the police that she had at
tempted to end her life.
The poison in the tin box was an in.
sect powder, she said. She declared
that the nurses had given her the
wrong shaker.
Mrs. vermtlya's statement wa.
made some time after toxicologists
for the police had agreed that the
poison was an arsenical preparation