The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-12
Mysterious P0isoner Strikes Terror
to Hearts of Mothers in Kansas Cifu
Someone Seems 10 BE Trying
to Put Into Execution a
Wholesale Poisoning
Scheme-Children Become
Very Sick After Eating
Candy Pears Also Poi
sOned

Kansas City. Sept. l2.-(NEA)--A
mysterious poisoner, who roams the
city unseen and strikes in uncanny,
hidden fashion at little children, is
ut large in Kansas City.
Mothers are having gift candy
closely analysed before they allow
their children to eat it,
Refreshments at parties are in
many cases confined to articles that
are not unwrapped from the time
they are made up at the confection-
ers until they are ready to serve.
Even fruit from trees growing in
back yards is looked upon with sus-
picion.
Seek Crazed Woman
All OF this Is because someone-a
woman, It is believed, mentally un-
O3ianced by some strange hatred of
cnildren-has been going about the
city trying to put into execution a
wholesale poisoning scheme.
Eleven persons, most Of them chill
dren. thus far have been made i'll by
the pOisons. Either because the poi
SON doses were too small or because
none Of the victims ate enough to
meet with serious effects, there have
been no deaths.
But fear grips the city.
Most OF the poisoning cases have
been confined to the exclusive resi-
Dental district in the vicinity Of 39th
street and Agnes avenue. But moth
ers al over the city are taking pre-
cautions.
Find Candy In Yard
The mysterious trouble started at
n 4
kahner, where the four children
found a nicely packed box Of CANDY
lying in the yard.
They ate part Of it. and shortly
afterward became seriously i'll. A
physician was called and saved their
lives; then Mrs. Rainier had police
, analyze the candy.
J IN It We're found poisoned grains
OF wheat. such as drug stores sell for
!. the eradication of rats.
| 4 few days later Miss Catherine
QiIta gave party to the girls Of hel
sunday school class. During the
party 4 messenger boy delivered ,
box Of candy. Miss Dills, suppos ine
that one of her guests had had tht
candy delivered. served it. Five girl.
ate Of It and became very sick.
Efforts to find who sent the cand,
have failed.
! A little later Jackie Comstock
aged b, found package Of candy
lying IN his little wagon in the front
yard. He ate it and became sick.
| Pears Were Poisoned
Then Mrs. X. r. Noel picked ur
some pears which had fallen to the
ground from a pear tree in her back
yard. Shortly after eating them she
fell i'll and had to call a doctor
examination proved that the pear.
had been poisoned. How it was done
and why, no one knows.
Ruth Tulper, aged 6, escaped sim
liar trouble only because her mother
had warned not to eat any candy
The little girl found u box Of choco.
lates in the yard of the Tulper home
and took it to her mother. The
mother had it analyzed and found
that it had been poisoned.
In addition, some woman-nolice
believe the same one who has been
distributing poisoned candy has
been trying to cause trouble in other
ways.
: Wives have been receiving anony.
nous telephone calls telling them
.ess~ SssS'A ssuSUWtuS were OUT WITH
blond stenographers. There was dis
cord in a number of homes-until
one day woman received such u call
while her husband was at home with
her.
The police got number of calls
from some woman, who would not
give her name, telling them that stills
were being operated in the easements
OF certain residences. Each time the
report proved faise-but q great deal
Of Inconvenience was caused.
Police Are Puzzled
Thus far the police have been able
to make no arrest.
Residents of the neirhborhood
where most Of the poisonings have
occurred have demanded the arrest Of
q certain woman living on one of
their streets-a woman who seems to
De possessed by an intense dislike Of
children, and who drives the young
sters away whenever they wander on
to her lawn.
But to date the police have nothing
to connect this woman with the poi
soninks.
And meanwhile-the terror Of the
mysterious poisoner remains.