The New York herald., 1921-12-05
DR.. Radon Stopped at Gas
Station to Telephone,
Say Helpers.
POISON Walls IN GARDEN
Body Found Under Tree With
Clothes Carefully Arranged
and Arms Outstretched.

night Friday, about five hours before
the body of DIR. Elizabeth Lillian
Radon of this city was found beneath
the eight foot private hedge that sur
rounds the Anna 3. Jennings estate
in Fairfield, sedan automobile stopped
In front of Miners gasolene station at
the Fairfield end of the Ash Creek
bridge on the Boston Post road
Four persons were in the car, two
men and two women. Inside the gaso-
lene station were Miner and his two
employees, James Spall and Joseph
Smith. The automobile needed no
gasolene. One of the women, who was
man who wore brown felt hat, dis
mounted.
She went into Miners office and
asked permission to telephone. There
is no booth there. She had to speak
in the open. Miner Spall and Smith
sat listening. She called the number
"Barnum 3293." A woman answered.
rs everything all right at the house,
Clara?" she asked.
Apparently everything was. Then
she went on to say to Clara:
well, I'm in Fairfield and will not
be home until later. Please leave the
key out for me on the window sill as
usual
Left Apparently Cheerful.
Then the woman, obviously in cheerful
spirits, according to Miner, reentered
the motor and the party left in the
direction of Beach road where. few
hours later, the body of DR.. Radon was
found.
Miner. Spall and Smith, having nothing
else to do, tried to find out who their
Visitor was. They asked the exchange
operator and were told that whoever
she was she had called up the home of
DIR. Radon and had spoken to DIR. Ra-
dom's housekeeper. Clara Biggs.
Before Smith and Miner could get to
the Morgue in Bridgeport to-day, to view
the body OF DR.. Radon, DR.. W. II.
Donaldson, medical examiner for Fair
field, had decided there was no doubt
that 1t had been a case of suicide
and had granted permission to have the
body shipped to the home of DR., Ra-
dom's parents in Hartford. But recent
photograph OF the dead woman was
shown to Smith and Miner, and without
the slightest hesitation they agreed
that II had been DR.. Radon who had
teIephoned from the gasolene station at
Ash Creek.
Spall had gone to the Morgue before
the body left Bridgeport. He identified
DR.. Radon at once, and said the clothing
that lay beside the body was that which
the woman had worn when she tele-
phoned.
To-day Clara Biggs and her husband
Charles, both of whom live in the Ra-
dom flat 645 BostwiclS avenue, said they
never received any such message from
DR. Radon. The police believe the
Biggses.
While there is reason to believe that
DR. Radon killed herself Ind no evil
dence that she was murdered. 1t Is likely
that the whole affair will go down as
lust another one OF those queer cases
unless the young woman's parents in
Hartford have an autopsy performed.
The body was found in the shadow OF
q great yew tree a few steps from the
house OF the caretaker OF the Jennings
place. The tree stands In the glare of
an electric light attached to the care
takers house. 900 yards down the beach
road from the main Boston Post road.
IT is not more than a mile and a half
from Miners gasolene station. Every
nfty-five minutes watchman passes the
tree.
Had an undertaken laid out the body
II could not have been more orderly nor
tidy than it was when Andrew Loose,
hunting ducks, found it and called the
caretaker. The skirts were pulled down
TO their maximum length and smoothed
out Even the fur around her neck was
In good order. Her hat wasn't 40 much
as tilted Her arms were outstretched
at right angles to her body. Her feet
were close together and there was little
mud on the shoes. The gray spats were
quite clean.
Had the body been foot to the right
or to the left IL would have laid in the
glare Of the electric light or the care
takers house. But il was in the shadow
OF the tree at the foot of the high privet
hedge.
Bottles Thrown Over Hedge.
The Connecticut State police called
into the case by Coroner John j. Phe-
Ian, who is inclined to the suicide the
-
through the hedge this afternoon and
explored the garden in the grounds. In
the garden. well ordered place and
unmarked by shoe prints. they found
two bottles. one two ounce container
half full of two and half grain solu-
tion OF morphine and the other empty.
Nearby lay common medicine dropper.
Both bottles had been purchased in
Bridgeport drug stores and both pre-
script.ons had been written by DR..
Radon for herself. The second bottle
had contained on admixture to counter
act nausea. There were no marks in
the garden indicating the physician had
boon walking therein. There was moth
ing to indicate she had been inside the
Jennings place.
Vhy she should have tossed the bot
ties over the hedge just before lying
down TO die--granting she killed herself
with poison--is another angle Of the
mystery. The authorities say they can
not explain how dying woman could
have thrown the bottles over the hedge
IL she had wanted to.
Coroner Phelan and Sergeant Virelli
OF the state police want to know many
things. including
With whom and In whoso car waa T)r