The New York herald., 1922-08-05
NO CLEW TO SLAYER
OF SIXBYPOISONPIE
Police. Banton and Private
Detectives Make Little
Progress at Shelburn.
COOK HELPS CHEMISTS
Analysis Shows Some Kinds
of Pastry Free From
Arsenic Powder.
UMPIRE MORAN A VICTIM
National League Arbitrator
One of Two New Cases Of
Illness Reported.
UMPIRE MORAN A VICTIM


torney nor the private detectives re-
tanned by the Rossler Restaurant
Company. Inc, made appreciable prog
ress yesterday in their efforts to find
the person who killed seven patrons
of the. Shelburn Restaurant, 1927
Broadway. by putting arsenic into the
pastry last Monday.
District Attorney Banton said he
had found neither motive nor clew,
but believed this the sort of mystery
the moment the police and his own
detectives came on certain missing
facts that are needed to complete
what they believe to be the logical
answer"
All those actively participating in the
hunt for the animals-snd there seems
TO be no remaining doubt but that it
was the act of cunning crininal-con-
cede that they have few facts that
indicate certain suspects. They say, in
addition. that these suspects are under
more or less constant observation but
that thus far they have no facts that
would warrant arrests
Have Made No Progress
As a matter of fact, aside from the
most meager circumstantial theories,
the authorities have almost nothing to
work on. Some of the detectives say
that~they have made no progress since
Tuesday when they took up the hunt
| The only positive report made con-
cerning the mystery was that of Ole
Salthe. Chief of the Bureau of Food and
Drugs, Department of Health, who APP
pears TO have made positive his state
ment OF Thursday that everything that
his chemical laboratory has produced
would tend to show that arsenic was
busted on the pastry dough just before
1 ii was put into the oven.
| Salthe's complete report will not be
ready until Tuesday or Wednesday, but
the work he has yet TO do concerns
further search for arsenic in other foods
and foodstuffs taken from the Shelburn.
Not having received Salthes report
of the day, District Attorney Banton
was not convinced that the absence Of
arsenic i'm scrapinSs OF the tables. roll
ing pins, dough mixers and other ac-
4 ttSSOIlSS " lllt pastry NitliASi ihuiNoest.
I that the poison had not been kneaded
/ into but sprinkled on the pastry.
The District Attorney held that a
! thorough scrubbing of all this apparatus
would have obliterated traces OF arsenic
| before Salthe's men did their scra ping.
! But Salthe said his inspectors did not
! content themselves with mere surface
\ scra apings. Instead taey dug into the
\ cracks in the top of the table and so
I on. and despite the fact that they turned
| up accumulated dough and dust by go
| ing into cracks that no brush could dis
| turb they found no arsenic. To Salthe
this indicates clearly that the arsenic
was not kneaded into the dough.
Outlines Case with a Chart.
| Thus far Salthe has proved the pres
ence OF arsenic in the pastry only. He
has drawn a chart. with the aid of
Louis Mandell. the pastry cook in the
! Shelburn, who succeeded Charlie ABB
ramson. Mandell was in Salthes Office
The chart Is Mandels story OF just
what he did on Monday morning in the
rcstaurant-what he mixed, what in
gradients he used and how many cakes
and pies and rolls resulted.
Unfortunately Salthe was unable to
find pieces of the peach cake. apple pie
made, but he has been analyzing every
ingredient that went into them. Thus FAR
he has found no arsenic in the rolls, the
coffee cake, the Danish butter cake nor
the sponge cake.
Harry RI. Oshrin. lawyer for the man
agement of the Shelburn. said his pri-
waite detectives had made no progress.
No additional details We're reported, and
there were but two new cases Of illness
Ono Of the latter was Charles Moran.
National League baseball umpire. While
working at the Polo Grounds Moran lives
at hotel near Twonty-sixth street and
Broadway On Monday he ate ham and
eggs and rolls in the Shelburn and asked
for pie. lie was told there was no
more pc.
On Thursday Moran became dizzy
while officiating for the Cubs and Giants
and told his umpring associate. Ernest
Quigley. Quigiey suggested that Moran
say no more about IT, lest the bright
young reporters in the press box learn
Of IL and make the dizziness the feature
OF their accounts of tho game.
The other case of illness was that Of
David Newman. 25. 159 North Fifth
street. Brooklyn. He ate soup and pie
and is now in ST. Catherine Hospital
suffering from arsenical poison. His
condition Ks SERIOUS