The evening world., 1914-02-25
bride SAYS DRINKS
| At WEDDING
DIDN'T KILL GIRLS
Three Are Dead and One III,
Though zoo Were Not
Affected.
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Two Versions Told of Recep.
ton That Was Followed
by Deaths.
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separate tnveetiGntions are betnG
conducted by Coroner Jerome Healy
OF tho Bronx. Coroner Wagner Of
Brooklyn. inspector Miller Of tho
Health Department, and tho police
to determine what caused tho deaths
Of Nellie and Madeleine Dean and
Mary Driscoll. who attended an 1tal-
Ian wedding on Sunday night and
were taken III few hours aftcrward.
Wood alcohol contained In the
homemade cordials served at tho feast
was supposed to have poisoned the
girls. but although two hundred per-
sons attended the celebration. most Of
whon partook OF the rcfrcshmonts.
mono but those who composed the
party Of which tho dead girls wsre
members was mado III.
Tho investigators arc anxious 20
ind Miss Anna O'Brien. who boarded
at No. 8? Ferry street She was made
dangerously sick. but prompt aid by
Dr, Joseph r. Manning. OF No. 10
Oliver street. saved her and to-day
she left her boarding place and went
to the home VI q sister. Neither her
. landlady nor hor phvSician viii tai,
where this In. saying sho does not
want to be questioned.
GIRLS WERE INVITED TO THE
WEDDING eV FRIEND.
Tho police have heard two widely
different versions OF tho events Of
sunday night: one from Gertrude
Dean, a younger sister OF Nellie and
Madeleine. She IL twenty.one years
old. Nellie was twenty-five and Mad.
oleine. twenty.six. They lived with
their married brother. Jack Dean. al
No. SO East One Hundred and Forty.
fourth street and Nellie worked FOL
seven years in-the Chsrouney Print
Ing and Publishing Company. Of No
II vandewater street. where Jerry
LONE. Of No. IS Oak street. was en-.
pioyed. Last week no invited Nellie
and her sisters TO attend the wedding
Of his half.sistor. Angelina Miglioni.
ca, to Carmine J. Coiino, Of No. 81,
Sullivan street.
| According to Gertrude she and hel
sisters mot Mary Drlscoll. whose
home was at No. 1oc India street. vii,
Hamburg. at Third avenue ant
Twenty-third street. early Sunda,
evening and went TO Keninare Hall
No. 80 Spring street. where they found
Anna O'Brten and John Gorvin. he'
fiance. awaiting them. Jerry LONE 70.
ceived the party and. in honor OF the
bride. invited them to drink some rod
wine and afterwards some green cor
dial. Each took = glass Of wine. but
Gertrude declined the cordial. Ac.
cordins TO Gertrude that was all they
drank. They returned home before
o'clock. Her sisters. Mary Drisc0l
and Miss O'Brien were taken III and
all but Miss O'Brien died.
DRINKS CORDIAL TO PROVE II
10 NOT POISONOUS.
Tho second version OF the affaiI
comes from young Mrs. Colino. The
bride told tho police that hcr broth.
cr's guests were escorted to tho re-
ception by several young men and
/, that all partook no freely of the cor
/ diais that presently the young mon
were holding their hats aloft for
the girls to Kick. becoming NO bots.
ferrous that young Mrs. Colino per-
suaded her husband TO take her homo
That was all she knew about II. She
had n quantity OF the same cordial
left and to prove its harmlessnesa
she and her mother In law. Mrs. An.
toinette Coiino. drank freely Of II In
the presesce OF detectives who. how.
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