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3 IriSllbUlfJlH 'If They'd Only Told Me, 9 Says Poison Tutor DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928 EM Hospital Faces Skids In Thompson Inquiry 5 Victims Lrose Appeal in $1,250,000 Suit CONWAY. By ROBERT A LEAST a hundred of the radium watch dial painting Schaub, former instructress in the United States Radium, corporation plant at Orange, N. told THE NEWS yesterday. "I didn't know they'd die," she cried. "My God.

I swear I didn't know. If they'd only told nie!" PEN'S POISON MAKES N. J. TOWN SQUIRM A single pen, dipped deep in Verbal vitriol, has transformed the tranquil village of North Branch, into a hotbed of suspicion, heated denial and bitter charges. The charges are directed against the unidentified pen wielder.

Postal authorities revealed yesterday that more than twenty-five poison pen letters have been received by prominent members of this community of 500, a village four miles from Somerville, N. J. All the letters were printed in an amateurish scrawl, according to the inspectors, and all were mailed in Somerville. An arrest is expected. Young Women Get Letters.

One of the letters was received by Fred Williams, at whose general store all North Branch is wont to foregather and indulge in discussion. Several were received by young women of the village, among them fhe Misses Mae Pickle, Addie Smith and Anna Davis. '-I shall never tell of the shameful and untrue statements in my letter because of the terrible language," Miss Davis told postal authorities. Elderly Men Accused. One letter, received by Mrs.

James Dow accused her husband, a 60-year-old victim of lumbago, of gadding about with her J'ip it -1 It IfM'Ns Il912 TODAY 1 mm 1 1 LA women to whom she taught must die with her, Katherine Word had come to her, and tha other four women who are fighting for damages from the corporation, that their attorney's last move yesterday to obtain immediate hearing in Chancery court at Newark had failed. On her piano in the little fiat she occupies with her sister at 124 South 7th Newark, was a sheet of music entitled "Just Another Day Wasted Away." She pointed to it. That told her story told how-all of these women felt fighting for justice against time. agairuit certain death. 14 Already Dead.

"Everybody I know of. wh. worked in the place over a year," Miss -Schaub said, "has developed symptoms of the deadly poisoning. There are over a hundred. Fourteen are already dead.

"My cousin, Irene Rudopbh. wa one of the first to die. That was four years ago. and the doctors didn't know what was the matter. But she had exactly the symptom I'm having now.

Then my friend, Hi'li-n Quinlan. died in three day after she'd had a tooth pulied and an infection set in. Infection nothing. My first symptom was just that. I had a tooth ulled and my gums wouldn't heal up." Then she found she couldn't eat, Miss Schaub said.

Doctors oper ated on her for appendicitus. Isn't Any Cure." Finally Dr. Harrison S. Mart-land, chief medical examiner of Essex county, diagnosed her ailment correctly. The signs are, she said, puin in the joints, stiffness and distortion of the bones ami a cankerous condition develops.

"There isn't any cure," she said. ''I wish I could help find one for the others. You see, I taught them. We were told that radium was expensive, and when a little waj found in the bottom of the glasses of water with which the girls wer supplied they were reproved. Because they were afraid of losing their jobs they cleaned the brushes with their lips.

"It wasn't noticed." she sobbed, "in our insides!" None of the five women were in court. If counsel for the corpora- Continued on pnge i. col. 1 ADVERTISEMENT. WILSON STILL IN BED, OR ON WHITE WAY? By VIRGINIA MAXWELL.

It may be harder for a rich man tc get into Heaven than for a camel to get through the eye of a needle. but a very rich man has many comp ensations here on earth. Take the case, for instance, of Dallett Wilson, whose huntress wife stalked him as she had many an African lion and shot him in his offices, 730 5th last March 2t. A a nth- Dallett Wilson Wilson was able to lie on a bed of pain at Metropolitan hospital. Welfare island, and flit about Broadway at one and the same time early yesterday.

Reporters called at the hospital yesterday to ask what Wilson, the real estate Midas, intended to do about the indictment of Mrs. Esther Evans Wilson, the Diana who turned her guns on him. Hospital officials said -he was still so ill from a blood clot couldn't be seen. But a certain Broadway beauty was so certain she had seen Dal Wilson flitting about Broadway Monday night that she offered to call the hospital, give her Open Sesame name, and await results. Here is what an assistant to the superintendent told her: 1 "Dallett Wilson was discharged rr.om this hospital on Monday afternoon." Wherever Wilson may be.

District Attorney Joab Banton is convinced the lawyer's wound still smarts enough to induce him to appear when his wife is called here from Washington, D. to stand trial on the indictment the grand jury returned yesterday. the mine at 3 p. m. increased the known death list to ninety-two.

Thus 106 of the men entombed have been accounted for. Sitting upon a rail, waiting for death or rescue, Bucsha was found by Bruce Veal one and a half miles from the shaft entrance and more than 300 feet under ground, "Bruce where you been Bucsha dark hole between two trap doors, jHis contentment to remain in one position had saved his life. Here are four pictures of "Dr." Robert Thompson, taken at different stages in his criminal career. In March, 1906. he was transferred from the Massachusetts state prison, where he was serving a term for counterfeiting, to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.

Ga. In April of 1909. Thompson was pardoned by President Taft while at Atlanta. Thompson was sentenced to twenty years in San Quentin prison, California, in 1912 for an operation which resulted in the death of Eva Swan. The last picture in the series is the most recent photo of him.

Park View Must Prove Itsney Banton's office concerning the death from an illegal operation of Mrs. Marv Wacklin Seek to Halt Probe. This investigation still is pending. The woman, who was 32 and lived with her husband at 1958 Madison died in the Park View hospital on March 26, two (Continued on page col. 2 daughter-in-law.

Indignant at the false charges. Dow collected seven of the letters and took them to postal inspectors. Many of the elderly folk of North Branch were targets for the poisoned darts. Mrs. Frank Graham received a missive accusing her elderly husband of running around with 17-year-old girl who has been away at a southern college for months.

Authorities from Philadelphia are at work on the case. $25,000 JEWELS GONE, SHE CALLS HIM PLENTY NOW "I shall call you Robert. I have a dog named Paul." That's what Mrs. William V. Hester, widow of a former president of a Brooklyn newspaper, told Paul Greneau, 22.

a new servant, when he arrived at her Red Springs estate at Glen Cove, L. ten days ago. Greneau. a gracious young man spoke French fluently, replied that she could call him anything. Yesterday Mrs.

Hester probably felt like taking him at his word. Greneau disappeared Monday with $25,000 worth of jewelry while Mrs. Hester was in town" with a friend, Mrs. Carol J. Post jr.

Of the jewelry, $20,000 worth belonged to Mrs. Post. CHIEF BACK, GREEK CABINET RESIGNS Athens, May 22 U.R The sudden return to active politics of Eleutherios Venizelos, behind-the-scene leader of Greek politics since the World War. was followed today by resignation of the cabinet. President Koundouriotis accepted the cabinet's resignation a few hours later.

The chamber of deputies adjourned immediately, pending formation of a new cabinet. One Rescue in Mine Gives Hope for 104 Right to Continue. By JOHN ODONNELL. The exclusive Park 'View hospital, indirectly linked by a narcotic investigation to the murder clinic of the notorious "Dr." Robert Thompson and his band of criminal surgeons at 114 West 71st has been ordered to explain why it should be permitted to continue in existence. Advisers of Dr.

Jacob Edelstein, head of the hospital at 5th ave. and 128th admitted last night they had received a demand from Heakh Commissioner Louis I. Harris ordering Edelstein to appear at a hearing before officials of the health department. Morphine Channel. It was learned at the Park View hospital that federal narcotic agents uncovered records which led to the charge that a morphine compound, used in criminal operations, was being syphoned from the hospital supply through the hands of Dr.

Oscar A. Spier, into Thompson's West 71st st. house. Both Spier, who lives at 1143 5th and executives of the Park View hospital have been ques-j tioned by representatives of the homicide bureau at District Attor i Mather. May 22 (U.R.

Life was found today among the men trapped in the underground workings of the Mather coal mine. Frank Bucsha, one of the 210 miners entombed when an explosion wrecked the working Saturday, was rescued alive after fifty-five hours of imprisonment. The news spread rapidly through inquired as eal entered the com-the little mining village and new partment. "I been here three days hope was born that more of the i now. You not come soon something 104 miners still missing would be choke me." found alive.

Buesha's rescue brought I Bucsha was found in a small. the total of known survivors to fourteen. Bodies brought up th. shaft of.