Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1916 — SOUP CHEF’S PAL HELD IN CUSTODY [ARTICLE]

SOUP CHEF’S PAL HELD IN CUSTODY

Chicago Police Arrest Antonio Tonionek Who Is An Alleged Intimate of Fugitive Poisoner. Chicago, Feb. 16.—Antonio Coda Tonione, 24 years old, was taken into custody this afternoon by detectives, following receipt of information from the New York police that he was a friend of Jean Crones, the University club assistant chef believed by the police to have put poison in the soup of the guests at the Archbishop Muldelein banquet last Thursday night. Tonione gave his address as the number of a house in frhich Crones formerly lived. Chemists today were asked to discover the nature of another poison found in kitchen utensils used in the preparation of the banquet. It was said that a new poison was the primary drug used and that the one first found was merely a secondary poison. Search for Crones and the woman with whom be is said to have left town continued both in Chicago and in other cities.