A DOSE OF PARIS GREEN.
When Josephine Husing, a young married woman, died suddenly at No. 79 Debevoise Street, Brooklyn, Friday afternoon, it was reported that death was caused by apoplexy.
Coroner Hesse became satisfied that some mystery was attached to the death. He ordered Dr. Valentine to hold an autopsy which resulted of the discovery of Paris Green in the stomach. Mrs. Husing’s husband and family were dumbfounded when told of the result of the autopsy. They stated that Mrs. Husing had been in low spirits for some time and are convinced that she took the poison with intent to commit suicide.
Jacob Husing, the husband of the dead woman, had been out of work for many months and is thought that that fact and the debts which she had been obliged to contract for food and clothes so preyed on Mrs. Husing’s as to cause her to take her own life.
Source: NYTimes, 20 Dec 1885