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DEATH, AFTER
4 YEARS, LAID
TO RADIUM
Bellevue Expert Completes
Test and Insists Fatal Rays
Killed Girl Factory Worker
C
H
Radium was directly responsible
for the death of Amelia Maggia, four
and a half years ago, Dr. Alexander
ΓO
O. Gettler, of Bellevue Hospital, an-
V
nounced yesterday at completion of
na
his examination of her bones
Miss Maggia was employed by the
an
United States Radium Corporation,
C1)
of Orange, N. J., at the time of her
death and handled a radium deriva
m
tive in painting luminous figures on
Ci
watch and clock dials. The autopsy
an
1
was instigated by relatives contem-
ne
plating a suit against the radium
concern.
S
NO DOUBT OF CAUSE.
Dr. Gettler told the New York
y
American yesterday that there was
be
no doubt Miss Magiga was killed
SO
by the deadly rays. He said:
tre
'-Emanation of the three death-
he
dealing rays was found in the
th
specimens I examined. Radioac-
or
tivity was discovered in both the
the
electroscope and photographic
tests."
sag
The body of Miss Maggia was ex-
a c
humed in October from a West
bas
Orange cemetery. The disinterrment
was allowed by a court order on ap.
the
plication by relatives of the dead
sen
girl. At that time attorneys for the
Am
radium corporation complained that,
her death having occurred four and
cal
a half years ago, the suit had been
outlawed by the statute of limita-
tions.
STATUTE POWER DENIED.
Attorneys for the relatives con-
tend that because of the strangeness
of the malady the statute of limita-
tions has no bearing on this case.
Symptoms of radium poisoning are
not discernable for two years after
death occurs, it is said.
Five other women, two of whom
are sisters to the dead girl, are suing
the company for $250,000 apiece.
The sisters are Mrs. Albina Larice
and Mrs. Quinta McDonald. The
others are Mrs. Grace Gryer, Mrs.
Katherine Shaub, of Orange, and
e
Mrs. Edna Hussman, of Hillside. All
claim they have been bedridden by
1.
radium poisoni
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