The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-22
BROKER ]. W. HALLS
WIFE TAKES POISON
Accident, Explains Doctor
Maid Says Mistress Ordered
Her Away.
NEAR DEATH IN HOSPITAL
Found Soon After Husband
Leaves House for Walk
With Sons.

GREAT NECK. l.. l.. Nov. 21.-Mre
Grace Herman Hall. wife OF J. Wiiiet
Hall, broker at ~ Broadway. Man
haitian. took from fifteen to thirty grain
OF bichloride OF mercury at her hom'
here this afternoon. She II at the Mas
sau Hospital at Mineola and is not ex
pected 10 live more than a few hours.
DR.. Charles l. Neisley Of Manhasset
in a statement soon after his arrival a
the hospital. said that Mrs. Hall hat
taken the bichloride In mistake for as
pirin tablets. which she often usedfor q
pain In her heart.
According to Mrs. Halls maid. wheI
she found her mistress lying on her bed
groaning. Mrs. Hall said: I'm dying
leave me alone"
About o'clock this afternoon Mrs
Hall left her home In Arrandale avenue
Great Neck. TO go TO a drug store. Wher
she returned Mr.. Hall and his two sons
J. willett. Jr.. IL. and John. 10. hat
gone for IA walk.
Moaning Attracts Maid.
\ little after 3 o'clock maid. pass
ing Mrs. Halls door. heard her mistress
moaning and went In. She found Mrs
Hail lying on her bed. her face con.
torted with pain.
The maid called Katherine Hall
fourteen -year-old daughter OF Mrs. Hall
who telephoned Dr. a. II. Parsons A,
soon as DR.. Parsons arrived he real
!zed the gravity of Mrs Halls condi'
ton and all OF tho neighbors were
levied on for milk for use in fighting
the bichloride poisoning. DR.. Parsons
also used stomach pump. but Mrs
Hall grew steadily worse. Before the
ambulance arrived from Mineola 1t was
necessary to administer heart stimu.
lants.
Mrs. Hall remained conscious and
WAS able TO tell DIR. Charles NJ. Neis-
ley, the family physician. when he came
that she had taken four tablets. be-
lieved to have been Of IN grains each
at short intervals. She felt no relief
from the pains In her side. she said,
and soon after swallowing the last tab
let felt dizzy and had sharp pains
After Mrs Hall had been taken 10
the Nassau Hospital Drs. Niesley and
Parsons got into communication by tele-
phone with several New York special
lists and will continue to ask their adj
vice in treatment as long as there ap-
pears to be hope.
shock for Returning HusbR nd.
Mr.. Hall returned home just as the
ambulance drove up to his door and was
greatly shocked to find that his wife
had taken poison. He rode 10 the hos
pital with the ambulance and remained
there while the fight was being made
TO save his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall have occupied their
home in .,rrandale avenue for six
months. but nave lived in Great Neck
for some years They are well known
here Mrs. Hall IL SO wears old. They
have been married fifteen years
In August Mr.. Hall obtained an order
from Supreme Court Justice Delehanty
In Manhattan permitting his daughter.
Janet Cowl Hail. then 4 years old, TO
drop the name Cowl and call herself
Janet Hall.
The reason MIR, Hall gave for wishing
the change was that he feared 1t would
lose him the friendship OF Clarkson Cowl.
The daughter had been named Janet
Cowl Hall because Of a long standing
friendship between Mrs. Cowl and Mrs.
Hail. but later. MIR. Hall said. he had
been informed that Mr. Cowi had serious
objections TO the continuance OF the use
of his name and that ''rhe friendly re-
lations existing between the families are
in serious danger of being disrupted
Mr. Hall added that every material
advantages" had been enjoyed by the
child through these friendly relations
with MIR. and Mrs Cowl Mr. Cowl is
n member of the dry goods firm of
James A. Hearn a. Son. Mrs Cowl is a
daughter of the late Mr.. Hearn.
Mr.. Hall WIS graduated from Yale In
1898. He Is "A member of Squadron a
and of the New York Yacht Club.