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Derby Colt Sunny Man Dead BALTIMORE, Md., May 4.— Willis Sharpe Kilmers great three-year-old Sunny Man, a Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes eligible, died at Pimlico Saturday night. His death was due to poisoning by arsenic and chloral. Trainer Smith, after unloading the colt from a van which conveyed him from Havre de Grace to Pimlico discovered that the horse was quite ill and he immediately called in Dr. Henry J. McCarthy and, later on, Dr. McCully. The latter held out hopes for recovery, but after suffering for a couple of days Sunny Man died. Trainer Smith is at a loss to know how the colt was tampered with, if such was the case. Two night watchmen are employed by the stable and every precaution used to protect the horses. It is just possible that Sunny Man may have been tampered with before he went to the post at Havre de Grace on i QMIUMY MAN tne closinand day of tnat meeting. oumi i ivihii His race there was a most dig. appointing one. Willis Sharpe Kilmer carried 50,000 insurance on the colt, 00,000 with Lloyds and 0,000 with the Hartford Company.
