4 WOMEN STRICKEN.
HOME-MADE ICE CREAM BLAMED
FOR THEIR ILLNESS.
SUFFER PTOMAINE POISONING.
MRS. CHARLOTTE SHINDEL VERY
ILL AT 924 PARK AVENUE.
Misses Charlotte and Ester Marshall
and Their Mother Were Reported
by the Attending Physician
as Out of Danger
Last Night.
Four members of the family of D. E. Marshall, president of the firm of D. E. Marshall & Co. , contractors and builders, were stricken with ptomaine poisoning yesterday afternoon, and one, Mrs. Charlotte Shindel, Mrs. Marshall's mother, is still seriously ill.
It is presumed that ice cream, which had been made in the Marshall home, 924 Park avenue, caused the trouble.
On account of the heat yesterday afternoon Miss Charlotte and Miss Ester Marshall, daughters of D. E. Marshall, wanted ice cream and a freezerful was made by the domestic.
Both the young women, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Shindel ate of the ice cream and all were taken ill. Mr. Marsahll, who took luncheon and dinner at home, got through the day very happily and is inclined to blame the poisoning on the ice cream.
Mrs. Marshall said last night that she had no idea what made the family ill, but insisted she thought the cream was innocent.
Dr. W. S. Wheeler, who was summoned in the evening, treated the family and last night pronounce d everyone, excepting Mrs. Shindel, out of danger.
D. E. Marshall & Co., of which Mr. Marshall is president, is widely known as a contracting firm. A brick yard and planing mill are run in connection with the contracting office at 2011 East Tenth street.
Miss Ester Marshall, the elder daughter, is a student at Missouri University in her senior year.
