Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-04-15

Mystery surrounds the death Of An.
tuniia chavez. i've and "a half Venrs
old. who died nt 1;1S o'clock last
evening az the homc of hcf aunt Mrs.
Nora ortiz. 2iGih West Gold aNenue,
after AN illness oi only AN hour The
Eirl lived with hor aunt Juanita Con
aules Nt 1907 south Broadway. with
whom she went to the ortiz homo az
: O'Clock yesterday afternoon. appar-
entity ia the best ui health. Al g.1b.
while playing in the Kitchen tho child
suddenly threw up her arms went In
Go convulsion ana fcll hoadlong.
striking her head violently On the
ilour. An hour later the little one
was dead, two physicians who were
summoned failing to afford relief. The
girls father ana mother. Mr. aud Mrs
Martin chavez, arrived this morning
from santa Fc summoned because uf
her death. Members of the family
present when the child was attacked
beiiev" SHE WAS poisoned and suy that
y is possibie sho got poison from
dog, belonging tu Mrs. ortiz, with
which She had been playing The dog
manifested symptoms of great distress.
as N hc mad been poisoned shortly
after the girl became ill. Tho dog
recovered. however.
Chlef OF Police McMilnn inyesti-
gated the nmair today. with tho as-
sistnncc of Policeman Pablo Luinn.
Tho chiefs suspicious We're aroused.
when James West. an omployo Of the
santa FC shops. reported TO the police
the fnding of an apple near the door
step uf his house, iii0 John street.
which is Just across the street from
1891 south Broadway. where the
Chavez girl lived This apple, appar-
entity fresh ana good to eat, had been
skillfully dentcd and then sm0othed
H.U a
this morning hy Prof y. -. Clark,
chemist az the University OF New Mex
leo, it was found to contain many
pieces of finely broken glass. which
had been cunninply inserted In Tho
apple. chief NcMillin asked that
Professor clark make thorough test
Of the apple 90 discover II IL contained
any kind of poison West, the man
VINO found the apple. picked it up in
his yard at o'clock this morning.
He believes the apple was placed
there so that one of his children would
pick 10 up later Zoo the day and eat it.
Mrs West when interviewed by the
police was greatly worried because Of
the finding of the apple.
one theory regarding tho death of
the chavez girl is that oefore leaving
home yesterday afternoon. she picked
up AN apple which contained broken
glass. and which bad been prepared
In "a manner similar 40 the apple found
this morning m The West yard The
child may have eaten the apple az the
time she picked n up or after reaching
her auuts house.
In any event the child aied death
that ia mysterious 60 say the least and
the police are hard dt work unraYcling
the tanglc
District Attorney NJ, T.. Vigil was
notified of the death Of the girl this
afternoon and conferred with County
! Physician g. a Frunk fcgarding
post mouCm examination Of the body
Dr Frank was one Of the physicians
who attended the Chayes girl when
she became 100 last evening He II In
Clined Co believe that her death was
directly due 90 tho iall she received
after being attacked by tho conyui-
sion
Within the last three days several
! DOGS have been poisoned in The vieiu-
/ ity Of the 1890 hlurk ON South Broad
Way In the poisoning OF the dogs
meat was used. Nhlch had evidently
4 heeu pormeated with strNchnino.