The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-31
MAN DISAPPEARS FOLLOWING DEATH OF PRETTY WIFE Medical. Examiner Downs Calls Police In to Aid In
 Solution of Mystery Attractive Young Russian
 Woman's Body at Morgue
 Italian Barber Husband
 Gone.
 

Following closely upon the death of a young and handsome Russian woman, claiming to be the wife of an Italian barber, the disappearance of the barber coupled with the my sterious circumstances of the wom- ans death has led Medical Examiner F. B. Downs to refuse to sign the death certificate until he has heard from the husbands own lips his story of the woman's illness.
 There is no definite suspicion as yet directed towards the husband and physicians who saw the woman before she died incline to the belief that wood alcohol drinking caused her death. Dr. Downs refuses to accept this theory. however. and he has ask ed the police to locate if possible the strangely missing barber to clear up the enigma. The name of the bar Der as obtained by the police is Cal lantio Pietro.
 First news of the plight of the wo- man came to the authorities just aft CT midnight, this morning when a man called up police headquarters by telephone and asked that doctor be sent to 61S Main street He said his wife was ill. Dr. McQueeney. the night ambulance surgeon of the emer- gency hospital talked with the man.
 Pietro-for the man who te1ephon- ed represented himself as the hus- band of the ill woman-said his wife had a bad headache. pr. McQueeney asked if the ambulance was wanted. The husband said all he wanted was a doctor. He had telephoned for sev- eral. but had been unsuccessful, he said. But he protested against the sending of the ambulance
 Through the police, Dr. Eli B. Ives was summoned from his office at State street and West avenue. When pr. Ives reached the furnished room where husband and wife were stay ing, he found the woman unconscious. and Dr. McQueeney responding to the call rushed the woman to St. Vim cents hospital. This was about 4 o'clock. Her death occurred before 4:30, after she had been given the last rites of the Catholic church.
 Dr. Ives found the woman and her husband and another woman boarder in the house in the room with the dying woman. A bottle labelled Globe Spirits' and marked for external use only was found by Dr. Ives It was half filled. This is a mixture of wood alcohol used as a hair tonic. pr. Ives asked whether the woman had not been drinking the stuff. They didn't know.
 Mrs. Mills said today that yester- day afternoon she heard grOans from the room occupied by the couple. She found the woman lying in bed The Russian woman told her, according to Mrs. Mills, that she was sitting in a chair when she. suddenly toppled over and she complained of suffering in- tense pain in the head and abdomen. She said her husband, who went out as Mrs. Mills came in, had been rub ping her with alcohol.
 From the husband, pr. Ives got a story that the woman was accustomed to drink rather heavily. He suspected that she had been drinking the tonic, and accused her, but she stoutly de- nied having used 1t except upon heI hair. Both pr. Ives and pr. Mc- Queeney suspected the symptoms in- dicated the use of the wood alcohol for drink.
 The husband remained behind as the ambulance took his wife to St. Vincent's hospital. He picked up part of the ambulance equipment, left be- hind in the haste to get the woman to the hospital, and started walking towards the institution. He reached Bulls Heal when the ambulance corps was returning, and asked for his wife's condition.
 Meanwhile ne had gone to a te1e- graph office with Dr. Ives and wired to 114 W. S4th street. where he said
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