Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 11

POISONING DENIED IN NURSE'S PLEA Woman Faces Arraignment Smilingly—Preliminary Hearing Sept. 28. By the Associated Press, ENID, Okla., September 16.—Enter- ing her own plea of not guilty to an accusation of poisoning one of two members of a minister’s family who died under mysterious circumstances here, Mary Atkinson, nurse and long- time friend of the pastor, has agreed to a preliminary hearing with a smile in place of the tears caused by her arrest a week a Arraigned yostarday on & chargs of n;uriier in connection with the deat ey, counsel with the formal plea not guilty.” Returned to Cell. Asked by Justice David Fogleson if she did not wish to take advantage 24 hours ann\wd in which to v counsel, she ‘anc \\nh a _smile ng a pathol ing poison Jane, who d k aftor the death of her m an illness of four other Balley Chincend No word was received from a brother | Who visited her shortly after she was | arreste Qll!nflt_v of Poison. She apparently made no effort to| oommunicate with the gray-haired | Episcopal minister for whom she had | expressed a deep devotion and in| ‘whose home she lived prior to the death of Mrs. Bailey. Dan Mitchell, county attorney, re- fused to state whether hé would exhume the body of the pastor’s wife, who died of an illness described as similar to that of her daughter, Although Mitchell has several let- ters from the pastor to the nurse, which the minister described as “let- ters of sympathy,” as well as a quantity of poison found in Miss At- kinson’s room, he said he expected to base his case on three hypodermic syringes also discovered in the posses- sion of the defendant. Mitchell said the syringes were similar to one found at the hospital where Mary Jane died and which chemists reported con- tained poison. Declines Poison’s Name. Mitchell declined to name the poison revealed by the viscera test, but said it was not the same as found in Miss Atkinson's room. He said the syringes | [lf were of a different type than those | [lf wused at the hospital. Authorities also took statements from physicians, who said that Mary Jane, her mother and the four chil- | || dren who recovered showed symptoms of ptomaine poisonineg. Miss Atkinson's prehrninary hearing | 8. was set for September 2 Estate Valned at $45,000. Louise W. Turpin, who died August 23, left an estate valued in excess of $45,000, according to a petition of |||} her niece, Cella A. Martin, for the issuance of letters of administration | |ff to the American Security & Trust Co. Premises 1910 I street are in- cluded in the ate. e deceased is also survived a -mer Sarah A. Wilson, and a nephew, Reuben Martin. FAIR PRICES g \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1927.° uarry in Rowan yesterda; the aphis which attacked the trees TWO KILLED BY BLAST. [ergines, uarey tn Bowin Jiveewsy| FRUIT TREES FAIL. |iBe anto, Sk i e teord Construction Co. Vi 85y \“clthwca}({her 1(lilurlr:g June axnd Jul{. tly killed Vilson Mills, an extensive apple Two Also Injured in Beparate|lnyed Blost omr s ham and in.| Onterio Crops Hit by Cold, Wet srower and 1peu:ker reported recently. d Alex Correll, another negro, so June and July. he apple crop is a failure noi MoacryABRpiason. ’h‘;\x‘l» that he died several hours later i Wm‘“fl“d‘fls anything that govern- SALISBURY, N. C., September 16|at mo Salishury Hospital. Corrempondence of the Assoclated Prews. | ment crop reports may say to the ) s hoed st at the quarry of Henry| gmv mHOMAS, Ontarlo—The apple | CORtrary.” said Mr. B (#).—Two negroes were killed in one shm near Shuping's mill, 10 miles G e % “Mr. Mills doubted if more than 500 granite quarry accident and two white | east of Salisbury, this afternoon in.|crop in this district will not be more | paskets of Ipeaarlmln[ will hble harvested men serlously injured in a blast at jured Shive and Clyde Overcash. than one-quarter of normal, due to!in the entire district this year. 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