New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-30
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When came back found her standing On the tooI
4 with glass in her hand She had apparently
\ swallowed what was in the tHmbIers She went to
the stove and put some hot water in the glass; and
washed # ronnd in the glass and then drank It an
After she drank it, she laid down on the bed and
ssid she wss finished. NY fatheTwas sitting On the
table in tie same room; he was intoxicated, and
made ont liks he did not know what mother took !;
| but am satisfied he very well knew what she was
taking. When came in screamed, as ] snspi-
cioned mother had taken poison. My father told
| me to hush, tlfzt il was tour she had taken, and
| she had only done It to scare me. He made no
effort to prevent her from taking 1t. when frat
4 asked herr twhat she had taken she sasd II was a
1 powder; snt when asked her, as she lay on the
bed, what she had taken, she said IT was arsenic.
She did nos tell me why she had taken poison.
She threatened once before to destroy heraef and
said the reasonwas because her husband had made
false accusations against her, which everybody
i knew were not so. Ny father always treated my
mother well, ea1ep. when he was in Hqnor. a was
\ ut those times that he made the accusations.
4 DR.. j. y. CUTddfae, s#orn-I was called al
i about IL o'clock on Tuesday night to see Mrs
Bailey. When reached the house, found her IN
conyulsions and entirely insenaible had . csR
sweat lfyd hue. and every sign Of being poisoned
by arsenic. Immediately gave an emetic Of sulpA
zinc, and itoperated freely thought the stomach
vas entirely evacuated ! EFT, and came back iu
that conTersed freely with her. She told me she
had taken arsenic. ] left again, and came back
next morning, when found her dead.
| Samuel r. EpetxK swoTn-f am clerk at the
drug store Of Jules A. FIorat, on the New Basin.
On the evening of the 9th inst, respectable
| looking woman came into the store and asked me
il she could purchase some ratpoison, saying that
she was greatly troubled by rats that the evening
! before, she had received a new dress which she
had paid three dollars for making and that therats
had entirely destroyed it, and that she deter
mined to Kill them Off Immediately offered her
some poison prepared by Mr. Florat, in the form OF
| a paste. She said she would prefer the powder ;
/ she had used it frequently BEFORE and believed it
was called arsenic. She asked for dimes worth.
After giving her every precaution asked her il she
had children; she said she had none. gave her an
| ounce of arsenic, as she said she wanted as much
possible in order to kill great number Of rats.
Her story was SO plausible and she talked SO ra-
1 donaly Of other matters, that had no idea she
had any design on her own life and, moreover,
4 she was no stranger, having previously purchased
small articles there. She did not appear to- be
troubled in mind. tits thing Of every day occur
i sometimes in the form of paste.
d. j. White sworn--I rented to Mr.. and Mrs.
Bailey the rooms they live in, my office. Mrs.
Bailey came into my Office about o'clock on the
evening of the 9th, and asked me what she had
4 better do with her husband that he had been
drunk for some days, and had treated her very
badly. She showed me her hands and arms, which
were marked as if they had been pinched. Iasked
her if her husband had treated her worse than the
Il bruises showed; she said no. advised her to
have him arrested till he got over his drunken
spree. She then left my office, and did not see
her again till next morning, when she was dead.
IL. /. SpfiggS sworn-I am night watchman at
the Mobile landing, on the New Basin. On the
, night Of the 9th, when first went on my beat,
met Mrs. Bailey in front of Simpson Il DORIS lnm-
ber yard. This was about ten minutes before
b o'clock. She was crying, and said she was glad
to see back on that beat, as she was in trouble
and her husband was on a drunken spree, and had
= treated her so badly that she had made up hel
+ mind to put an end to herself; that she was then
on her way to the drug store to, get the poison
talked with her few minutes, and induced her to
20 back home. She gave me her solemn promise
= shn wonld nnf 1eStray herself. and glad
3 that she had met me, as had prevented her from
. doing an act she had made up her mind to do
= She went in at the gate leading to her residence
= Some half an hour atterward, she passed me. com
ing from the drugstore at the head Of the Basin
! She went home again; d few minutes afterward,
heard noise in the room up stairs, where they live
Invent up and found was the crying of the danghte
I and the cursng Of the father that made the noise
x When went into the room, Mrs. Bailey was stant
ing in the middle of the room, and her daughter
!, her with her arms around her neck. Bailey wa
~ sitting ON q table, drunk. Mrs. Bailey said sh
y hoped the neighbors would treat her WELL as it wa
ID impossible for her to survive after what she ha
taken. Bailey told his daughter to hush, that
:. was nothing but too much whisky the id OF
" wench had taken, and had no money to buy an
to more She said to me that she was sorry for til
10 falsehood she had told me, as she had only done
e to deceive me- for she had just then swallowed til
y fatal dose. Immediately went to Florats dru
e. store and ascertaned that arsenic had been sol
t. to woman, who was described to me. Iretnrne
to Mrs Baley's, and asked her what kind of poiso
she had taken. At first she did not want to tell me
y but she went and got the paper, which was mari
le ed q Arsenic-poison, which paper left at I'll
n First District watch-house. Mr. Bailey was yer
r. noisy and abusive to every one in the house, unit
s. He threatened to whip his daughter and to max
her leave. This whilst Mrs. Bailey was lying SIC
I'd from the poison. :,
N J. d. McDonough, sworn: ] went up with u
= watchman into the room where Mrs Bailey WI
ne sick, and staid there oil night, as there did
h appear to be any one to wait on the woma
While was there, Mrs. Bailey asked me # won
- see her daughter well taken care of, as she did
he wish her left under her fathers care, to be mi
he treated as she had been. She said it was her hr
ed bands maltreatment that made her take the p
or son. Mr.. Bailey acted very badly all the erenin
4 50 badly that he had to be taken away ny .ne
N, fcers. He used the most opproblous epithets
let speaking to his wife, whilst she was lying SICK
mt the poison.
The Coroner's jury rendered verdict that Nj
I'D Mary Ann Bailey died from the effects of arsen
1T, taken by her own hands; she being melted to
in deed by the brutal treatment Of her husband
III, THE GREAT POISONING AFFAR.-We are hap
he to state that Mr.. Lemley, the survivors of
90 family and the numerous guests who were poison
nd at the late fatal dinner at his house, are all in
ms, way of recovery though some of them are still qr
icy sick Mr.. Lemley is on his feet once more, tho,
ea- still quite weak.
Dr.. Crawcour's analysis Of Master Young's
the mains, and of some of the sponge.cake which {
th rounded the fatal dish of Charlotte Russo is
only interesting but 50 clear and explicit that ey
rye reader will understand it. The Importance
ent the value of chemistry or Of chemical knowled
ous could not possibly be offered to the public, in
VII ter shape than in the following report:
me Dr. d. Beach, Coroner for Parish of Orleans, Lousi
fe,s Dear Si,--Ibe to hand you the following reL
NJ or nv ANALYSIS Of the viscera OF Master W.
~ Young. of the Charlotte Russo, and OF the geai
'ea. and essence of vanilla, given by you TO me
I 10 chemical examination.
her ANALYSIS The portion OF the Chariotte Ky
tbis consisted only OF small piece of sponge cake
- weighed 100 grains, and presented no pecuha
WAS of annearapce by ocular examination. As th
VII. was a pos ibility of poisoning. having ceul
mes from some fritant other than mineral poison,
ont was examined for oxalic acid 1t was dige!
twice with boiling water, the residue boiled al
toe, and ltered this, again, treated with absolut,
we'll cohol on evaporatng portion OF these U
fore solutions to dryness, and testing for oxac Q
be no trace of this substance could be discovered
The solid residue was now boiled with a 8
quantity Of water strongly aeidulated with
ster- muratic acid, and the above fltrates added
,een concentration; slips OF copper game were pi
of in the solution, and at the end of fifteen miI
,ned ;nS fThia svas van washed. dried and placed
small reduction tube. On being heated the &C
The was restored to its natural red color, and
4 90 crystals Of an octohedral SHAPE sublned o.
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