Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-06
Cup from Which Vic
tim Drank olson
Vanishes.
TUMBLER OF CASTOR OIL
is FOUND IN CUPS PLACE
Son Explains Missing Vessels
Disappearance, but Detec-
tives Are SkepticaI.

One mystery after another was M
covered by the police and proseca-
tors office today in probing the death
of Barnett Isaaeson, Il years old. Of
go Bergen street who was poisoned
by paris green.
The cup from which he said, in ar
ante-mortem statement. he nad un-
Willingly drunk the deadly soIufior.
has disappeared.
His lS-yesr-old son. Alexander. has
a very plausible story to explain the
strange absence of the cup. but De-
tectiye Alfred Cort, Of the Fourth
Precinct, and Detective Sergeant
Louis slutsky, Of Prosecutor Motifs
staff. are not certain that the boy Is
telling the truth.
Both Alexander and his mother
deny that there was any paris green.
roach powder or other poison in the
house at the time Isaacson took the
fatal draught.
Yet Isaacson. who died yesterday
in Beth Israel Hospital. told a dif
ferent story TO the nurses and physi-
clans. He said that he had arisen at
o'clock on Tuesday morning, gone
to the kitchen, Lii the gas and picked
UP cup on the washtubs II was
his invariable custom TO take a drink
of water upon arising.
In the cup he noticed a green sedi-
ment. He thought nothing of it.
however, and used the cup as usual
His peculiar statement and the IN
dications of poisoning led Couzty
Physician Mckenzie to perform an
autopsy last night. Paris green vas
discovered in the mans stomach
When the detectives came to search
for the cup today il was gone. They
found. however. a glass labeled cas-
tor oii'' and containing browuizi1
sediment in the bottom. That wa
turned over to Captain Eogel. Or the
Fourth precinct. to be held FOR
analysis.
The dead mans son was tlIen
grilled as 10 the missing cup,
There wasn't any cup with parja
green in it." he asserted. Papa be-
came sick about o'clock. went
out and got some castor oil in
tumbler and gave it 10 him in
cup"
well. where's that cup demands
ed slntsky
L put il back here on the tubs.
but in putting on my coat to go TO
school | knocked it on the floor. Il
was smashed to pieces and / picked
them up and threw them into the ash
can
The ash can was searched by the
detectives, but not single bit o
crockery was found in it. In xiew
of the fact that the last ash collec-
ton had been made early Tuesdas
morning. before the time Alexanfer
said he had given the castor oil to his
father. the detectives came to the
conclusion that he was hiding some-
thing
Pressed to tell all he knew, the beg
merely reiterated his story
The Isaacsons moved TO ESQ Bergen
street only four days ago from
house at So sixteenth avenue, which
Mr.. Isaacson had owned. He had
sold that building on Sunday and his
wife at present has the money which
he received.
Isaacson's plan was 10 use the
money 70 move to San Diego. Cal.
where he wished to make a new start
in life. He had been unsuccessful in
his business dealings here. although
he was not short Of cash at the time
of his DEATH
After he was taken i'll ON Tuesday.
Isaacsen was visited by DIR Maurice
Asher of fs Court street. who or
dered him removed to Beth Israel.
Isaacson was a member OF the Odd
Fellows. His wife will receive 4
benefit of $3.50 from that society.