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Subject: [NYMONROE-L] Monroe Co. Rochester April 17, 1899
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:27:28 EST

Union and Advertiser
Rochester, NY
April 17, 1899 page 7

DAWUSKI MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED

Poison Used is Not Yet Known to Coroner.

Wife is Now Said to Have Been Despondent for Some Time

Jealousy of Her Husband's Attentions to Another Woman Said to be the Cause.

The poison which brought death to Theodore DAWUSKI and his wife, Bertha, at
their home, No. 398 St. Joseph street, is still unsolved. The autopsy held
on Saturday failed to show traces of poison sufficient for the physicians to
determine what it was. The stomachs of the two were given yesterday to
Professor LATTIMORE. It will take him four or five days to analyze the
contents and determine the nature of the poison. The inquest has been set
down for next Monday morning at 10 o' clock.

There was no poison found in the house except a can of muriatic acid such as
is used by tinsmiths and plumbers. This, however, is a corrosive poison and
the physicians who performed the autopsy did not find any evidence of
corrosion in either of the bodies. There was a faint odor about the bodies,
but it was one unfamiliar to the physicians.

It has been learned since Saturday that Mrs. DAWUSKI had been despondent and
discouraged for some time of late. The reason for this was DAWUSKI's alleged
intimacy with a young unmarried woman of the neighborhood. DAWUSKI had had
several quarrels with his wife on this account. DAWUSKI's sprees are also
said to have been more frequent than was at first acknowledged. Of late the
wife had stated to friends that she was discouraged and wished to end it all.

Whether the case was one of murder, suicide or double suicide or double
murder will never be known. The family of Mrs. Dawuski is particularly
bitter against the young woman whose name has been associated with that of
Dawuski, and there is a sensational theory about the neighborhood that they
may have been poisoned by some one who had a grievance against them. Mere
report is responsible for this, and it cannot as yet be traced to any
reasonable foundation.

Coroner KLEINDIENST, who is hard at work investigating the case, was given
another theory by a man who viewed the bodies at the morgue yesterday, and
who said he was a resident of the neighborhood, but declined to give his
name. It is to the effect that Mrs. DAWUSKI became so despondent that she
poisoned herself. DAWUSKI coming home after a spree and finding this wife
dead, became frightened over the prospect that he might be held responsible
for her death, and poisoned himself. The fact that the wife had been dead,
according to the doctors, from twelve to thirty-six hours when her body was
discovered, is about the best argument in favor of the theory.

The funeral of the couple took place this afternoon from SCHAUMANN's
undertaking rooms, No. 22 North Clinton street. The interment took place at
Mt. Hope.

FUNERAL OF WILLIAM MARTIN

Held at His Late Home, Honeoye Falls, and Many Rochesterians Attended.

The funeral of William Martin held from the Methodist Church in Honeoye Falls
yesterday afternoon was one of the largest funerals ever held in the town of
Mendon.

The funeral was conducted by the Rev. E.M. CLARK. The pall bearers, Messrs.
Geo. BURTON, J.M. PRIDE, John E. LAPP, M.S. PIERCE and Adam DESMOND, were
accompanied by the firing squad from the C.A. Goheen Camp, Sons of Veterans,
marched on either side of the hearse and were followed by Lewis Yates Post,
361, G.A. R. Honeoye Falls Lodge, No. 31, A.O.U. W. and an escort from
Rochester, who were members of the deceased's company in the 140th Regiment.
Those in attendance from Rochester, who arrived on a special train at noon
were; Sheriff John W. SCHROTH, ex-Sheriff John W. HANNAN, County Treasurer
John B. HAMILTON, Clerk of Board of Supervisors Charles U. BASTABLE,
Superintendent of Poor, Clarence V. LODGE, Geo. HUBBARD, proprietor of the
National Hotel; District Attorney Stephen J. WARREN, Assistant District
Attorney Henry H. WILDNER, ex-District Attorney George D. FORSYTH, M.C.
ROBERTS and John GILMORE of the sheriff's office, County Clerk Charles L.
HUNT, Attorney H.B. HALLOCK, Supervisors J.W. CLARK and Geo. M. SCHWARTZ,
Court ATTENDANTS F. J. GOODWIN, Charles L. DAVIS, John FORTHYSE, John F.
BOYD, Alfred WOOD, John STOLL, Geo. F. FRANK, Wm. BIRDSALL, H. F. ABBOTT, Wm.
KOHLMETZ, Emmett VAN CAMP, John CAWTHRA, Deputy Sheriffs William H. POLLOC,
H.C. ELY, F.H. VICK, H. ABBOTT, F. HAWLEY and Under Sheriff Charles BAILEY.
The services at the grave were very impressive.

SARAH TAFT DAVID

Mrs. Sarah Taft DAVID died at her residence in Lyons on Saturday morning of
pleurisy, after a brief illness. Deceased was the daughter of the late
Newell TAFT and was born in the village of Lyons September 20, 1834. She was
married to the late Dr. William G. DAVID in 1855 and from early youth was a
member of the Presbyterian Church. (did not get the rest).

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