Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-09
Second Husbands Remains Will
Be Examined for Drug Wom=
an Is Said to Have Used.

CHICAGO, Nov. 9.--Coroner Hoffman
prepared today to take a second body
from the grave, for the purpose of
adding to the chain of evide&e against
Mrs. Louise Vermilya, now held in the
county Jail, charged with the murder
of Arthur Bissonette and suspected of
poisoning nearly "a score OF other per-
sons.
The grave which will be opened is
that of Charles vernilya, second hus-
band of the accused woman. Coroner
Hoffman, with two detectives. went to
Crystal Lake to exhume the body and
incidentally to make inquiries regard
ing the courtship of Louise Vermilya
and her husband and facts connected
with the death of the first Mrs. YER
milya.
documentary evidence to show that
Undertaken c. G. Boysea had been en-
gagged to Mrs. Vermilya and was named
az beneficiary in her insurance policy
was received by the coroner from j.
w. Evans, supreme secretary of the
Home Guard of America, who tele-
graphed:
Louise Vermilya holds policy 724,
1911. She has certified life insurance
in the Home Guards of America for
1000, and has named as beneficiary
Charles C. Boysen, her affianced hus-
band. She also holds sick and acci-
dent certificates in the sum of $3.50,
payable to the same beneficiary"
Circumstances which accompanied
the death of Jayson Rupert, a rail-
road fireman, on January II, 1870 have
convinced the police that his name be-
longs to the list of alleged victims of
Mrs. Vermilya.
Details of the illness and death of
Rupert were given the police by Ar
thur Denton, also a railroad fireman.
and a friend of Rupert He said that
Rupert and he had visited the Ver-
milya home on January 10, two days
before his friends death, and that the
illness with which Rupert was att
tackled began directly after their visit
He died in a hospital near the Yer
milya home under almost identical cir
cumstances as those which attended
the deaths of Bissonette and Richard
T. Smith.
Sudden illness OF Mrs, vermilya to-
day caused the county officers eonsid-
cradle uneasiness. 1t was thought at
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tanned more poison and made q second
attempt on her life. They fear another
attempt.
Examination by physicians. however
did not confirm this suspicion. It is
believed the sudden nausea and
nervous convusions are after effects of
the arsenic taken Saturday.
Detectives seeking evidence for
Coroner Hoffman reported that Mrs.
Vermilya, subsequent to the death Of
her first husband. Fred Brinkamp, coll
lected $1,000 from a fraterna1 insurance
order; after the death of Vermilya she
collected $1,000; that the widow had
acted as insurance solicitor for fra
ternal companies in the rural districts
near Crystal Lake, ILL.,, and that
Undertaken c. C. Boysen. whose name
has been linked with that OF Mrs. Yer
mllya as a beneficiary by many wit
nesses in the Investigation, had suf
fered from stomach disorders after
eating at the vermilya home.
Boysen. when questioned by the
police, stated that he was suspicious
of the accused woman and that he be-
lieyed she at one time, tried to poison
him. why he did not inform the au-
tborities of his suspicious he declined
to state.
1--WE were never engaged" he told
Captain Harding. "I merely called to
see her now and then, and would fire.
quently take dinner at her home.'