Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — CORONER INVESTIGATING. [ARTICLE]

CORONER INVESTIGATING.

Rencselaer Woman Die* In Chicago hospital Under Suspicious Circumstances. The wife of Alfred Moore, who resides on the Dr. Alter farm, just east of Rensselaer, was taken to Chicago a few weeks ago for surgical treatment and was operated on at the Presbyterian hospital, about August 20. She was getting along nicely, we understand, from the operation, but on Tuesday night, August 26, suddenly died and the remains were taken to her old home at Hoopeston, 111., for interment. It now develops, accoiding to the Chicago papers, that probably the wrong medicine, no doubt poison, was given to Mrs. Moore and another lady by the nurse in charge, and both died. The coroner is investigating the matter, and the hospital people seem to be trying to keep the facts as 'dark as possible, Dr. Graham, chief physician, being quoted as saying that the manner of their death was none of the public’s business; that the board of health had issued burial permits, the women had been hurried and there was no law in Illinois to make him order a disinterment for a post-mortem to determine the cause of their death. The nurse, Miss Emily Etheridge, admitted to the coroner, that she gave Mrs. Moore 2 one grain strychnine tablets, in the belief that she was giving her one-thir-tieth grain tablets.