The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-20
LOCAL NURSE AT
POISON PARTY"
Miss Alma DOrnfeld One of
Seven Chicago Nurses
Poisoned by Candy.
SENT BY ADMIRER
KenOsha Young Woman Eats
of Candy, Filled with Poison
Sent to Friend.

One of seven nurses at the West End
hospital in Chicago, who were poisoned
by eating of candy filed with cyanide
of potassium and sent to one of their
number as a gift, Miss Alma Dornfeld,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.
Dornfeld of 873 Prairie avenue, is re-
covering from the effects of the deadly
poison and according to latest reports
is out of danger. The Kenosha nurse
was one of the number in training at
Helen Rosenfeld, one of their number,
to share in partaking of a box of candy
sent to her through the mails.
The girl opened the box at her room
at the hospital and found closely pack
ed pieces of what appeared to be choco
late fudge. A typewriter card read:
From patient who was an ardent
admirer. This candy was faithfully
made"
All Eat Deadly CORRECTION.
Miss Rosenfeld took square of the
fudge and passed it to her friends.
One piece WIS taken by each of the fol-
lowing nurses: Miss Theresa Ihfe, Miss
Alma Dornfeld, Miss Helen Leslie, Miss
Annie Ruhle, Miss Daisy Casey and
Miss Grace Breakstone. Within a min
ate seteTetasting-of..th the .GgifsssNcandy, the
ssSomen were all writhing in agony on
gtle floor of the room. Miss Dornfeld,
who had tasted less than several Of her
companions, was the first able to
scream and to call nurses from other
parts of the hospital.
DR.. Vain, one of the physicians,
made hasty examination of the fudge
and found that it was saturated with
cyanide of potassium. The women
were hurried to ward in the hospital
where stomach pumps were used and
restoratives administered.
Attempt at Murder.
Officials have no doubt but that the
candy was sent in an attempt to muir
der Miss Rosenfeld. Police are in
vestigating all of the clews which they
can find in the hopes of discovering
who sent the candy through the mail.
Rumors of a rejected sutton and NQf
patients in the hospital who might
have fancied grievances against the
young woman are being investigated.
The parents of the Kenosha woman
hurried to get into telephone commu-
nication with their daughter this morn
ing just after eight o'clock. "I'm all
right-am even working" she told her
sister, Mrs. K. c. Christianson. ave
were all very sick last night but are
slowly recovering. Some of the girls
though are still in danger"
Analysis of the candy by hospital
physicians showed it contained enough
poison to kill every person in the hos
pital. Every portion and crumb of the
candy contained poison. Cyanide takes
life quicker than any other poison, the
physicians declared. Death. usually
comes in few moments. The quick
work of the hospital attaches is cred
tied with saving the lives of the nurses.
Miss Dornfeld Well Known Here.
Miss Dornfeld, the Kenosha girl who
was one Of the victims of this bastard
Nv poison plot, is very we'll known in
Kenosha. She was educated in the
Kenosha schools and later went to Chi
cago to take training in the hospital.
She had been very successful there and
will complete her training during the
present year.
Search for Sender.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Chicago.-An exhaustive search for
the sender of the box of poisoned can
DIV. responsible for the critical illness
of six nurses at the West End hospital
was being conducted today by post
office inspectors. The box came thru
the mail and was addressed to Miss
Helen Resented, a 17-year-old student
nurse. It contained homemade fudge,
analysis Of which by the laboratory
expert of the institution, was said to
show that the supposedly deadly poi
SON perm Gated all Of the candy.
Miss Rosenfeld came to America
nine months ago from Austria and has
been student nurse in the hospital
since that time.
| The girl invited six other nurses to
share the candy with her and within a
few minutes all of them became ill.
One of the theories advanced by
the postal authorities is that some
jealous sutton sent the box to Miss
Rosenfeld.
1t is said that Miss Rosenfeld is an
Austrian refugee and the theory ad-
vanced is that the attempt to kill her
with poison is part of an interna-
tional plot to kill others who left
Europe as hhe did.