The New York herald., 1922-08-04
Any One Of 35 Employees
Could Have Reached Crust
as Rolled and Cut.
PASTRY MOST POISONOUS
Only Four Foods Out of Forty
two Tested Show Evidences
of Murderer's Work.

Whoever Sprinkled arsenic on tne
dough that killed seven patrons of the
Shelburn Restaurant. 1927 Broadway
last Monday was so clever that the
police and District Attorney Banton
are putting him or her in a class
above Jean Crones, the alleged poi
soner of a dinner to Archbishop Mum
delein. formerly auxiliary Bishop o!
Brooklyn, in Chicago in February. 1915,
So little progress have the police
and the District Attorney made that
Samuel Drexler, proprietor of the Shell
burn, retained private detective
agency yesterday to conduct an IN
dependent investigation. This was an
nounced by Harry ri. Oshrin. lawyer
for Drexler, who said Drexler wanted
to assist the police and do everything
that would bring about an early arrest
of the criminal
Furthermore $500 was added to the
reward offered for Information leading
to the apprehension and conviction OF
the person who put the arsenic in the
dough. Oshrin said that the additional
$500. making the total reward $1,000.
was posted by personal friend of Drex-
Ter.
An important discovery was reported
by Ole Salthe chief of the Bureau of
Food and Drugs. Department of Health.
1t does not indicate any one person as
81, A. 1t
lively the time when the arsenic was
injected But 1t does go TO show that
there was no accident; that the criminal
worked coolly and craftily: that he or
she took every precaution against detec-
tion and that he or she knew the prem
ises and the movements of the pastry
cook and his assistant.
Place Examined Carefully.
Salthe ard his assistants went to the
restaurant and took samples Of forty
two foods and foodstuffs. Some they
obtained In garbage containers. Some
they took from the raw material bins.
They inspected the lavatories. the wains-
cot. the wall paper the window castings.
In brief. they made an exhaustive search
for vermin exterminator and found none.
Thus they eliminated the possibility of
the Introduction OF exterminator In the
dough.
But the important thing was tho
scrapings they took and analysed They
scraped the table on which Charlie
Abramson mixed his last batch Of dough
in the Shelburn on Saturday morning
on which his successor, Louis Mandeu.
rtVfw oil ,ut.
found no trace of arsenic.
They scraped the rolling pin. Same
result
They dug Off the surface Of the mix
ing bowls and kneading boards. Chem
ical analysis failed to show arsenic
there. They subjected to such analysis
every container and utepsil that had 10
do with anything connected with the
making OF the dough.
And In no instance did they find
arsenic.
Pofsoner Worked Rapidly.
Salthe declared that TO him the in
ference was clear. II means that who
ever poisoned the food material did IL
Monday morning after Louis Mandell
added two pounds of dough Of his own
making to the five pounds that Charlie
Abramson had made on Saturday and
which, being excess. was put into the
box to be used Monday morning.
Whoever did II worked rapidly and
unerringly. He or she must have waited
until Mandell had his and Abramson's
mixture combined and had divided II
into the several uses to which II was
20 be put. Msndell mixed. the dough
about O'Clock Monday morning.
Abramson came in a little later to get
his money and impart TO Mandell any
routine Information the latter might
need.
Combining Saithe's discovery with
facts known by District Attorney Ban
ton. the following probably happened
Abramson, Mandell and Louis Freed
man. the pastry cooks helper. walked
Off leaving the dough on table ready
for the actual baking. Some of the
Coufluued on puup Three