Evening star., 1926-03-12
WOMAN IS MISSING
AFTER POISON DOSE
One Death and Three At.
tempts at Suicide Start Po-
lice on Investigation.

One death from self-admnistered
poison and three dramatic attempts at
suicide last night brought the poison
cases involving women to total of
13 In this city during the last three
weeks, with two deaths resulting. Mel
ancholia was assigned as the motive
for the suicide that was successful
fear of consequences of playing
hockey" from school is believed to
have prompted the attempts of two
l0-year-old schoolgirls. while in the
third attempt Of last night the motive
has been undetermined and viel Of
mystery was thrown about the case
by failure to locate the woman today.
Neither OF the schoolgirls Is in serious
condition.
The suicide was Mrs. Susie Boyle
colored, 43 years old. who died at
Freedmen's Hospital yesterday after
noon
The schoolgirls are Lillian Miller
OF 700 Sixteenth street northeast and
Margaret Carragher of 1907 r street
northeast pupils in the second year
at Eastern High School. who drank
poison from the same bottle in the
vestibule of Holy Comforter Church
Fourteenth and Fast Capitol streets.
early last night. They left the bottle
In the vestibule. walked a short dis
tance and collapsed Picked up by
passer-by. they were taken to
Casualty Hospital, where Drs. Law
ton and Nillapiano administered
treatment that produced speedy re-
covery.
Sent to Detention House.
The sirls We're then sent to the
House of Detention. where they
spent the night. Today Policewoman
RUBY Brandt took them over to
Eastern High School for a conference
with their teachers and their moth
ers, after which it was expected the
girls would return home. Discovery
OF their absence from school, police
women were told, had been made by
their teacher. who requested that thew
ask their mothers to confer with the
teacher. 1t was the fear OF the
consequence. according to the story
told by the girls to policewomen. that
led them to drink poison.
In the third attempt recorded by the
police the report obtained at the third
precinct was that Miss EVELYN Nc.
Lane, 24-year-old artists model room.
Ing at 1873 h street. swallowed sleep.
ing tablets, poisonous in overdoses
while at the studio Of Eugene Weiss,
olo TWentieth street, yesterday. She
was treated at Emergency Hospital
while In y semi-conscious state. ac.
cording to hospital records. and left
the hospital. Efforts to located her
today were futile.
Mrs. Boyle, who died from a dose Of
poison disinfectant at Freedmen's s
Hospital yesterday afternoon, was
said by police to have been a pa atient
there since early Wednesday, She
was taken there after a reported at
tempt at suicide by swallowing kero.
sene. Under treatment by DR. T. f.
Jones her condition improved and ar.
rangements were being made to take
her home when she got possession of
hottie Of disinfectant. jackson
Boyle. celored. $40 Bryant street, her
husband, survives her.
Aroused by the suicide wave appar-
emily sweeping over the city recently,
detectives began to take every step to
check up on possible laxities in the
preventive regulations. Acting on this
basis. Detective Charles Warfield to-
day was endeavoring to locate the
druggist from whom the two school
girls obtained the poison yesterday
afternoon. They gave policewomen
the name Of a northeast druggist.
Warfeld instituted an Investigation
to determine how the poison came to
be sold to minors in violation of the
regulation prohibiting such SALE The
poison, which Is a type used as a caus-
tic germicide and remedy for cuts
bruises and sprains, 1t was said. could
be sold to adults without registration
In poison sales books. but is prohibited
to be sold to minors under any condi.
tiOns.