The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-09
POISON MYSTERY
BATTLES POLICE
QUESTION UNDERTAKEN WHO WAS
ON FAMILIAR TERMS WITH
MRS. vERMrLYA.
HE THINKS HER INSANE
ALTHOUGH BENEFICIARY UNDER
HER Will BOYsEH DECLARES
HE BELIEVES SHE TRIED
TO POISON HIM.

TO POISON HIM.
| CHICAGO. Nov. s.--Though he has
declared to the police that he ha.
never been on intimate terms with
MIS-. Louise Vermilya, suspected Of
having poisoned nine persons in the
last few years and directly charged
with the death Of Arthur Bisopnette,
probation ofIicer. the life insurance
angie unraveled by detectives from
captain Harding's ONCE to-day
brought the name Of Undertaken c.
c. Boysen into the case more promi-
neotly than before
boysen, when questioned by the
police. stated that he was suspicious
OF the accused woman and that he
believed she at one time tried to poison
MIN. Why he did not inform the
authorities OF his suspicious he de-
clined to state.
Il think she is bugs he told
Captain Harding. we were never
intimate. ! merely called to see her
now and then and would frequently
take dinner at her home
An amazing condition Of AFFAIRS was
found to exist when the life insur-
ance policies held by Mrs. Vermilya
and Boysen in the Home Guards Of
America were examined. Mrs Yer
milya carried a straight NE policy
for 81 900 and a sick aud accident
certificate for $3.50. In both these
policies Boysen is named as the bene-
fciary. AZ the afflanced husband Of
Mrs. vermilya
Secretary Gives Information
This information was furnished by
j. w Evans. Supreme secretary Of the
N a tny INV ka
home ONCE of the company.
Detectives sent to Crystal Lake
have found that Mrs. vermilya prohted
to the extent of $4,000 by the deaths
Of her first husband and son. Fred
Brimmerka1np, who died on a farm
At Darlington. ILL.,. after short ILL.,
ness, carried d thousand dollar policy
In the Mystic Workers OF the World.
Her son. Frank Brimmerkamp. who
died suddenly at her home in Chi
cago when coRvalescing from an at
tack Of typhoid. held policy in the
same organization In the amount of
$1,000.
A tangled romance in which Mrs.
vermilya is alleged to have won her
second husband while his first wife
was living was revealed In the search.
Mrs. Harvey Cox. who knew the ae-
cused woman when she lived in Bar
rington stated that shortly after the
death of Fred Brimmerkamp Mrs.
verrniiya began paying marked atten-
ton to Charles Vermilya.
Died From Broken Heart.
Mrs. Eermilya was then a widow,
stated Mrs. Cox she called at the
home of Charles Nermilya twice
week, which was extremely distaste-
full to the first Mira Nermiiya. The
latter died soon after from broken
heart"
A most careful search in Chicago
failed to show that after that Bis
sonette carried insurance. Richard
Smith, who died ut Mrs. VerInilya's
house. and whose viscera Is at pres
ent being analysed by Prof. Walter 8.
Haines was insured for $500 In train
mems organization
Il do not believe that Boyseu. though
he was extremely friendly to Mira Yer
milya. can be connected with the case.
stated Captain Harding to-day. I'VE
have run down every nossible angle
and have nothing to show that i'm
plicates Boysen."
Boysen who buried the dead for Mrs
Vermilya was non committal when told
OF the policy taken out by Mrs. YER
rnilya in which he was named bene-
ficiAry.
"Mrs. Nermilya never named me as
beneficiary in an insurance policy" was
his first statement. Blu the records
show that you are named as her AT
famed husband In policies she held in
the Home Guards OF America" he was
told.
They Were Merely Friends.
Il know nothing about it. Mrs, Yer
miiya and myself were merely friends
l never told her was going to marry
her. and / surely never gave her to
understand that such thing could be
possible
ibid you think Richard Smith was
poisoned"
Il do now. but did not al the time
Mrs. vermilya has done several things
which aroused feeling Of suspicion in
my mind. but for reasons of my own
] kept silent. l was not in a position
to say anything.
why really believe that at one time
she tried to poison me- became Ill
and was seized with vomiting spell
about two hours after had eaten din
ner at her home. But / recovered and
thought nothing OF It until poison was
found In the body of Btaeonette."
Early this afternoon Mrs. Vermilya
was seized with sudden and mys-
terious illness In the county Jail hos
1itai in which she 10 confined The
symptoms were In all respects simi-
lar to those OF last Saturday when
she swallowed a quantity OF arsenic
despite the guard of police and nurses
stationed In her twenty ninth street
home.
A hurried search for poison was
made In the Jail hospital. and DIR.
Thomas Hogan. the Jail physician was
summoned. He attributed Mrs Yer
vilyAs illness to nervousness.
On account OF her condition no visi-
tors were allowed to see the accused
woman to-day.
Coroner Peter HOFFMAN. accompanied
detectives from Captain Hardness Of
nee. left early In the day for Crystal
Lake where the body Of Charles YER
miiyn, second husband OF Mrs. ver-
milyA II buried. 1t is thought proba-
BILE that his body VIII be exhumed to-
morrow and the viscera examined for
poison.
BLANKENBURC WINS
M nEIrH NEY nRYr