The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-29

l st- - 1 The authorities of New York and fConnectieut moved promptly today, to
 compIete their investigation into the mysterious death of Mrs Hannah A. l Cross and further developments are expected to follow shortly upon the exclusive announcement in the Far
 mer that William T. and Ferdinand had caused her remains to be disin- tered from their resting place in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, that chemists might make an analysis of I the organs, to ascertain the presence
 or absence of powerful poison. Before g o'clock this morning Cor toner John J. PheIan sordered Deputy Sheriff John M Donnelly to bring in 1 a number of witnesses.
 l Among these was F. E. Ballard of
 9z Wood avenue, who put up two pre-
 scrfptions for large quantities of COG filing them within the hour. Decem- Der 26 1913.
 l Dr. H. w. FIeck. Of Sg7 Lafayette street. also testified explaining, it is
 understood,s that he furnished a sec ond prescription for the drug because he had been told that the drug fur nished pn the first request had been t7Ssaks s He desertassd seeing the CO., deah tab7ess t1poas ti1es floor ana bureau 1 In d room in the Cross home, as if they had been spilled. Most of the morning was consumed i in the exaLninatfon of Mrs John w. fCampbeli, recently a bride, the grand niece of the dead wofnan and daugh- ter of Mrs Luquer, who is a trained nurse and the niece of Mrs. Cross. The inquest was secret Prosecutor Alexander Delaney and Coroner Phe- Ian co-operating to obtain such infOr- nation as may be available.
 Later a stranger, tall and black
 haired, who heretofore has been un- known in the case was asked to tell what he knew of the circumstances of death.
 tive at police headquarters. was early called to- investigate the removal of the trunks from the house in which Mrs Cross lived. Intirnatioi came early to the prosecuting attorney that three trunks were being loaded upon an express wagon of the Hickey Broth CTS. PetruscheH went to the house and with reporters who called. was | informed by those within. that the trunks had not been taken from there. Although the later investigations of the defective have not been disclosed it is the statement of his superdors that the trunks did not come from the house in which Mrs Cross died.
 It was learned from New York city. yesterday, that the body of Mrs. Han nah Cross had been disinterred upon order of Ferdinand and William T.
 Cross, the heirs, upon December "A, 1913, almost a. month after the death. That the contents of the stomach and the body of the deceased was at first. known, and it is believed that it was upon their report that the contents of the organs were submitted for analyti- cal examination by a well known firm of chemists.
 The authorities are now awaiting the exact estimate of the quantity of poison found. which none here can state exactly. It has been intinated by those officially connected with the inquiry that a quantity mot exceed ing the total grains of codetne sul- pf7ate contained in the last prescrip- ton written by Dr. Heck" is present.
 The prescription referred to, which was filled by Druggist F. E. Ballard, Wood avenue, called for fifty X grain tablets, and the dosage preScrib- ed Is said to have been from "one to two tablets every three hours" As o'clock on the morning of November 24, 1t will be apparent that with the maximum dose three hours apart 8 quantity of grains could have been given her.
 Dr. Fleck, when told of the report of the Ch heIn1StS talSL n1Snd, Sngn1neo his belief that the woman under any circumstances could not have taken a sufficient overdose to have killed her. He said that he had left the house at Il o'clock at night and that she had died at 8 o'clock the next morn ing.i At the time he left the woman was in an extremely weakened condi- ton and her heart was not strong. It was his belief that she could hardly have swallowed any more of the drug, or that it could even have been in- iected and remained in the organs She had. he said, a very sore throat. He further said that he did not be- lieve even if the medicine had been administered 1t would have assimilated in the system sufficiently to show its poisonous effect.
 Dr. Heck reiterated his statements as to having seen the broken box of the former prescription and also sew era1 of the tablets lying upon the
 bureau and floor. It could not be as-
 certained how many tablets were in