Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-12

5 T9he total number Of poisoning cases lin Westerly will number at least sseFeuty-flva. for in addition to those lwsao were poisoned from the product Etof e local restaurant, and not report led, there are other cases from differ kerIt causes. MT. and Mrs John Payne sand two children suffered from Eptouraime poisoning. although ohe cottage was all cooked at their home Iand taken to tho beach, not particle kof ik coming from the restaurant M-. RAyne says perhaps the food became hcontaminated after ft had been placed lin the refrigerator. Mir. and Mrs. i Horace Lewis and their two children 3Eof Boom Bridge, were also poisoned sIwhfie all they ate prior to the Pois- !, oninR ByEptomS came from thedr own vegetable garden
 Asoealr psaysscIan says that shere is a doubt whether the chemical anaLysfs ' win determine just what caused the ,poisn epidemic, and has been informed 2 by the state chemist that no organic poison was found in the ingredients Y analysed. but that the illness, and the deaths were probably caused by the \ presence of bacterial poison in nne < grease used in connection with the : cooking of the pies and the fish cakes, to which most of the cases are attr1- ibuted. The chemist is considering the . Guinea pig test, provided definite re- 2 suits ere not determined by the anal \ yses. He would feed piece of the 2 pie crust to one pig and the hIling 10 70 both pigs lived, the different fngredi- : ents of the pie would be fed to sepa.- rate Uiga and in that way the real source of the poisoning determined, z the real ptomaine being escertalned' !. Some of the persons poisoned have 4 SfilI < in a precartous condition.
 The funerals of Mir. and Mrs. Fran cis T. Brightman, who died from the effects of the poison, was held Sunday afternoon and was the first double funeral in Westerly for many years The service was conducted by Rev. x, Stewart Kinley, pastor of the F1rsi Baptist church in Westerly. MT. and Mrs. Brightman having been members of that church for many years. There was prayer at the family home on the Stonington road and services in the church at 2:80, with a very large number of friends in attendance. The two hearses and large line of carr1- ages coupled with the circumstances that caused death. made the sad event especially impressive and
 sorrowful. The services at the church included the solo,, Blessed
 
 prayer by Rev. F. Stewart Kinley, the singing of Safe in the Arms of Jesus by Miss Frances Pierce. Miss Annie l. Edmond and Thomas M. James ane William H. Browning. Rev. MT. Kin ley preached the funeral sermon.
 The bearers for Mrs. BrightmaI
 were members of the First Baptist
 church, William H. Greene. Thomas H
 Peabody, Jonathan A. Church. J
 Henry Potter. George B. Taylor ana
 Stephen R. Peclham- These civil wa
 comrades served as bearers for MT
 Brightman, Albert N. Cranda11, Horac'
 BurdicA, Christopher Simmons. Ro!
 Greene, Charles Fl. Holdredge and An
 drew Smith. There were many flora
 tributes, including two pieces iron
 empoyes of the American Velvet com
 pany, Stonington, where a son of MT
 and Mrs. Brfghtman is employed. tws
 forms from the PeopIe's Mission, {
 form from Hancock Post, e. A R., twt
 forms from Class 14 of the First Bap
 tist church Sunday school, forn
 from the Westerly w. c. T. U., and {
 large Gates A5ar from the family
 Burial was in River Bend.