Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-19

steries on record.
After telling his story to the police
last night, Mcfarland went to Phila-
delphia to take his 6-year-old son to
some friends there, he said. He prom
ised to return this morning, but he had
not appeared at his home up to noon.
Following the autopsy performed by
County Physician Mckenzie late yes
terday, the body of Mrs Mcfarland
lay unguarded in the locked house on
Park avenue through the night and
until II O'Clock today, when Plain
clothesman Herman, of the Fish pre-
cinct. was detailed to watch the house
and detain Mcfarland If he returns.
Why the body was left unguarded by
the police is a mystery. No satisfac-
tory explanation could be obtained.
Jacob Hole, undertaken, called at
noon. He had been given the key and
instructed to prepare the body for
shipment to Rocklard, Me-, for burial
today. He left the body untouched
when he found that Mcfarland had
not returned
Working on the murder theory. the
police and prosecutors detectives are
seeking the connection of a woman in
| the case. They expect to unearth a
| motive that would make the murder
theory tenable.
| Allison Mcfarland was advertising
manager for the Crocker- Wheeler Com
pany, at Ampere. which was a good po-
sition. Last July he and his young
wife and two children moved into
private house at BAG Park avenue,
spent Night in New York.
Tuesday morning he took his 6-year-
! old son to New York, to transact some
! business, he told the detectives yes
terday In the evening he went to a
theatre, he said, and then spent the
night in New York. When he returned
yesterday morning he found his wife
! lying dead across her bed, with 21h-
year-old Ruth playing on the floor
nearby
| He called a physician he said. and
later notified the authorities. When
the county physician performed an au-
topsy death was found to have been
due to cyanide of potassium, one of the
most deadly poisons
! The case was then turned over to the
! prosecutors office. Detectives then
questioned Mcfarland.
His story was that he had used
cyanide of potassium solution for clean
/ ing jewelry, and that he had put it into
a bottle that had previously contained
a bromide solution which he had adj
ministered to his wife as a headache
cure. On it he had written poison"
| This much was found to be true.
When, however, Detective Sergeant
Godfrey Investigated the story more
! carefully 1t was discovered that, ac-
| cOrdiDg to prominent Newark jewelers.,
such n solution is never used. The bot-
tie Is in the prosecutors possession.
Cyanide of potassium is so strong. the
/ jewellers said, that it would eat up gold
and silver like acid, that it would be
dangerous to use it on even a diamond.
It was pointed out that such a po' son
would necessarily be avoided for ,uch
purposes
Mcfarland is said to have told the
detectives that ne had obtained the
cyanide of potassium at the Crocker-
Wheeler factory. The only man ham
ding that chemical at the Ampere es-
tablishment is the photographer. When
seen today he denied fatty that he had
ever given any of the poison to the
advertising manager
Bottle Marked "PoIson."
The prosecutor has two bottles as
evidence. One is about six inches in
size. 1t apparently contained bro
mide originally, although the label is
so defaced as to be unreadable. On
it is pasted a small piece of white
paper. These words are written in
ink on the label: "Poison--Don't Use.p
/ The other bottle, which was on the
same shelf of the small medical cabi-
net is altogether different in shape
or size. so much SO that there could
/ have been no possibility of Mrs Nc
/ Farland's confusing one for the other
in the dark. The second bottle is
much wider and smaller Beside these
on the shelf was a plain measuring
glass.
The detectives believe that Mrs. Nc
Farland took the larger bottle, as she
/ had always been accustomed to. and
drank what she supposed to be bro
i mide Afterwards. they believe, the
white label was written and pasted on
| the bottle.
| The county physician was closeted
with Prosecutor Mott for some time
today, but refused to reveal the result
of his conference
81 don't know whether Ii is foul play
or not" was his only comment u am
not satisfied yet"
! Prosecutor Mott and Judge Martin
| had twenty minute conference today
about the case.
The physician first called by McFar-
land said that heart disease had been
the cause of death When County
| Physician Mckenzie arrived, however,
he grew suspicious and performed an
autopsy late in the day.
Then followed McFarlands explana-
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