New Britain herald., 1916-07-20
POLICE PROBE LAST
 ACTS OF DR. ADAMS
Trying to Learn Whether Woman
 OSteopath Was Alone in Office
DIR. HARRIS MAY RECOVER

DIR. HARRIS MAY RECOVER Physicians at Hospital Say He Has
 Fighting Chance-Dr. Atwood, Held
 in Jail, Visited By His Father and | Attorney.
 Boston, July 2O-Hospital physi- clans attending Dr. Wilfred E. Har- ] ris, president of the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy, said today that from the three bullet wounds infict- ed Tuesday by Dr. Eldridge D. At wood, also an osteopath. The phy- sicians reported that Dr. Harris passed a fairly comfortable night" and that he probably would live un- less peritonitis or other complica- tions developed.
 While the physicians were exerting every effort to save the life of the pa tient, the police were endeavoring to clear up the mystery surrounding the death by poisoning of Dr. Celia Adams, Dr. Atwood's fancee, which occurred few hours before the shooting of Dr. Harris. The autopsy failed to re- veal when, where and under what circumstances this poison was re- ceived."
 Tracing Miss Adams.
 Dr. Atwood told the police he left Miss Adams about Il o'clock Monday night at the Park street subway sta tion and that he first learned the next morning that she had been found unconscious in her office. It was said today by the police that she regajned consciousness for a mOm- ent and made several attempts to speak to a physician who asked her if she had taken poison. She did not reply, but nodded her head and point ed a finger across the room. Off, cials in charge of the investigation do not believe, however, that Miss Adams realized what she was doing. The police also have made further ef- forts to ascertain if she was alone in her office on Monday night. An analy- sis of the young wOman's organs was being made today by a chemist to de- termine the nature of the poison that caused her death
 Dr. Atwood is in jail on a charge of
  announced that in the event of Dr. Harris death the charge would be changed to first degree murder
 Attorney Edward w. Kenney Of Woburn, who has been retained by Atwood, in company with the prison CTS father, Zoeth w. Atwood, VlSlteo his client this morning. Before enter ing the jail he said that he had no personal knowledge of what Atwood had said of the shooting but had read the newspaper reports. He added that he would make a statement a1t- CT he had talked with the young man.
 May Plead Insanity.
 Temporary insanity will be the de- fense of Dr. Atwood unless present plans are changed, it was intimated today.
 After the conference the lawyer said. s'There is no doubt that the young man was deranged for the tune heinz when he shot Harris. l am not nrepared to say at this time what the defence will be. It seems clear that there has been insanity in the family An uncle of my client IS said Lo nave been under restraint at one time and later to have been 1ouhd oeao' ap- parently suieide."
 Attorney Kenney denied some state ,oonts attrihA1ted to Atwood. AS understand it." he said, "my client has said only that Dr. Harris had an 1n- Auence over Miss Adams that pre- vented her marriage to Atwood. 50 far as I know he has made no claim that the young woman was Tn state of health that was a bar to thelr union.'
 Medical Examiner Magrath said to- dav that no significance other than | appeared on it's face was to be at l ia ached to his statement of last n1gnt' | that it was not apparent from any | facts then in his possession when, where and under what circumstances the poison that killed pr. Adams was 1 received.
 "I was looking for the cause or death" said he, "and found 1t to De poison. When the examination or the stomach Is completed we Will hlo" | nSe6. -