The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
DIES OF POISON.
Miss Cera Nj. Yoiles Victim Of
Mercury.
Was Employed at Topeka In
dustrial School.
A MAN IN THE CASE.
His Name Has Not Been Given
Out.
Death Came in Hospital in
Kansas City.
A MAN IN THE CASE.

Kansas City, Sept. 5.-Miss Cora
Malva voiles of Topeka died at A
o'clock yesterday morning at the DIR.
Charles NJ. Coe Sanitarium, Twenty
sixth and Wyandotte streets of mer-
curial poisoning.
Miss Voiles, it was said at the san
itarium, was the daughter of Jesse c..
Voiles of Bonner Springs, Kan, a re-
tired farmer who formerly lived at
Hallenberg, Washington county, Kan.
She was "a years old, and since July
| 1, last, had been head waitress in the
officers dining room at the Kansas
State Reform School for Boys at To-
peka- brother operates g, general
store at Tonganoxie, Kan, and a mar
| ried sister, Mrs. ]. NJ Jones, probably
now at Bonner Springs, lives in Puyal-
/ lup, Wash.
According to her ante-mortem state
ment, now in the hands of a lawyer
employed by her brother, Miss VOiles
said she had been taken buggy riding
several weeks ago by a man whom
she named This man, she said, took
her to a clump of trees on the road
to the reform school several times and
one time produced tablets of cor
rosive sublimate of mercury, instruct
ing her how to use them without so
luton. She did as she was told, she
stated, and mercurial poisoning re-
suited. Three weeks ago, suffering
Kansas City to a mental science heal
er. The healer, however, refused to
take her case when he realized its Sc
riousness, turning her over to DR..
Coe.
Doctor Scores Druggists.
It was said at the sanitarium last
night that Miss Voiles was beyond
help when taken there, but that she
had shown amazing vitality in COM
batting the poison.
Such cases. DR.. Coe said, usually
cause extreme suffering, but do not
last long, death resulting in few
days, as in that of the Peters girl
Miss VoiIes. however, hung to life
she died yesterday DR.. Coe said she
asked the nurse for a drink of milk.
After taking the nourishment she be-
gan to fail rapidly, and it was impos-
sible to revive her. The body was
sent to the undertaking rooms of
Freeman & Marshall, Thirty-second
and Main streets
When a reporter called at the san
itarium last evening, DR.. Coe at first
refused to give any information con-
cerning the case. He declared it was
unprofessional and injurious to his
practice, and even denied that there
was anything unusual concerning the
case. When he learned that all the
principal details of Miss Voiles's ill
ness and death already We're known
he confirmed them in detail.
Il would to Heaven somebody would
prosecute druggists who sell these dan
gerous tablets to women DR.. Coe ex-
claimed.
Got There Too Late
This has been a terrible case even
more so than that of Frances Peters, |
because here both parties were old
enough to have read the newspapers
and taken warning from the precedent
of the Peters case. 1 can't understand
why druggists who sell corrosive sub I
Innate are not sent to prison or fined |
leavily It is a, powerful factor of evil |
when in the hands of the inexperienced |
'fWhen Miss Voiles was brought hera
it already was too late to save her. We |
did everything we could and I advised |
her brother to get a lawyer so as to |
prosecute in case of the girls death
The lawyer, A. J. Herrod of Kansas |
City, Kan. came and obtained her
statement more than week ago. do |
not know what Miss Voiles said in her /
statement but I know that she named )