Thinks Her Gin Was Drugged

THINKS HER GIN WAS DRUGGED. Serious Charges Made By Mother Against Daughter. WARRANT ISSUED FOR HER ARREST. An Aged Colored Woman Swears That Three Attempts Have Been Made On Her Life to Secure Insurance Money. Aged Elizabeth Nevis, colored, has been lying at her home, No. 934 East Baxter street, in a precarious condition for several days from the effects of alleged poisoning and the mysterious disappearance of her married daughter, Mary Walker, of No. 702 Baxter street, coupled with a chain of singular circumstances, has caused suspicion to rest upon her and warrants are now out for her arrest. Several days ago Mrs. Nevis went to the home of her daughter to assist her in making some skirts. The daughter had ten cents and asked her mother if she would have some gin. "I don't care if I do," was the latter's reply, and the girl went for the coveted dram. When she returned with the drink the girl poured out a small glass full for her mother and she drank the contents. In five minutes the old lady was taken with spasms and laid unconscious for several hours. The sick woman regained enough consciousness to go out in the yard for air. "Don't die out there, mother," cried the girl, "come in the house and die," were the words the girl used according to her mother's statement to a Telegram reporter this morning. The girl then left the house and the sick woman's husband took her home. Dr. N. W. Coyne was called in and his diagnosis of the case was that the woman had taken an overdose of something. Mrs. Nevis' body began to swell and the administering of emetics failed to produce vomiting. The husband of the sick woman said his daughter went to the homes of neighbors asking for sheets with which to lay out her dead mother. He told the Telegram reporter, too, that he had positive proof that the girl went around collecting money with tears in her eyes, saying that her mother was dead. Mrs. Nevis had her life insured in the Metropolitan Insurance Company for $230 in her daughter Mary's favor. The girl, so says her father, called at the insurance office after her mother was taken sick to see if the policy was paid up. Mrs. Nevis says that her daughter attempted to take her life twice before. Once, she said, her daughter was caught by a neighbor just as she was about to plunge a knife in her neck while she was sleeping, and another time she chased her with a razor. A warrant for the girl's arrest on suspicion of placing a drug in her mother's gin has been sworn out before Justice Colding and she is supposed to be in Newark. At that place she was arrested a day or two ago for drunkenness, but was discharged on paying a fine.