The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-09
SEVENTH POISON
VICTIM IS FEARED
NEARING DEATH
Mrs. Eugene Ivy Near Deaths
Door While Six Victims of
Poison Olives Lie Dead.
Quadrupie Funeral Held.
BULLETIN.


attending Mrs. U. X. Ivy, seventh VIC
tim Of the ripe olive poisoning, stated
Monday afternoon after returning from
the bedside that the patient was weak
err and that her condition was "Very
grave" Her throat Is paralyzed and
has to be administered by artificial
means.
The toll of death from eating poison
ripe olives has reached six, with the
seventh victim battling bravely for life,
TO which she is clinging by slender
thread, with odds apparently against
her despite heroic efforts of attend
~- ing physicians.
Mrs. Eugenia Ivy is the seventh vic
tim--the only one still alive of the sew
en- persons who partook of the poison
fruit at a luncheon of the Thursday
club at the home of Mrs Max Il. Yum
kannon, 1928 East Trigg avenue last
Thursday Her husband and 10-year-
old son are numbered among the dead.
Little Currie Ivy, 10, died Sunday aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock, the sixth victim
taken sick until late Saturday after
noon when he tainted. His illness fol-
lowed the death of his father, UZell K.
Ivy, by about u hours.
auadruple funeral was held Monday
morning at II o'clock from the home
Tat6er cant p r, wv o05S Nelson
avenue. ''
During the funeral services Mrs. Ivy
continued her fight for life in bed
room at the home of J, G. Morton,
2113 Nelson avenue, short distance
down the street from the house where
four cssSets renose side bv sida The
four victims, sleeping their sleep OF
eternity, were SO buried in Forest, Hill
cemetery. Rev, William Grove, Of the
Tho saTyicae = =
-Four hearses. nrovided nv r. w Nor.
ris & Co, undertakers, followed By a
number Of automobfies. formed the fu-
neral cortege in the finale of one OF
the saddest tragedies in the history Of
the city,
I,iftle Curris wv died at home Of IFS
aunt Mrs. T G.. Morton, BIB Nelson
avenue. His death followed illness OF
"A hours. He was seized witf5a faint
ing spell late Saturday afternoSn-about
48 hours after he had eaten Ole of the
poison olives and nibbled alta second
one.
The fifth to die was Max e. Vunkan-
non, who succumbed at 4:30 o'clock Sat
yrday afternoon at the he PEesby tcta
had died, including his wife,
cx,,o,r4 or,c c;no;1or
0ynAPCoAns HAnAAl"A'
Other victims were Mrs. Horace B
Hammond, who died at $50 Friday
morning; UzeI X. Ivy who died at
$40 Saturday morning; Mrs Max f.
Vunkannon, who died at O'Clock Sat
urdav morning, and Mrs. Herbert S
C,rofford Nwho died at 61O o'clock Sat
urdav morning,
Currie Ivy showed no sign of ILL.,
ness on Friday or Saturday morning
II was recalled that he had tasted one
, of the poison olives and laid it dowr
\ with the remark that it did not taste
good. But he admitted after his faint.
ing spell Saturday afternoon that he
previously had eaten a whole olive.
Mrs wv ate two of the olives ant
felt i'll afterward She took a dose o.
flu medicine and of calomel This
latter probably is responsible for hel
being alive today, Her vision still Il
clouded and the muscles of her throa
CONSTRUCTED, however.
All of the victims who died eXpe
rienced a paralysis of the throat mus
ces and clouded vision.
Mrs. Hammond's body was sent t,
Evansville, Ind, for burial by the Spen
Ger company, undertakes, last Frida.
night
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