, 1866-09-19
THE POST. MURDER.

The Women Taken Back to Canada |
One of Them Makes n Full Confess
ston-The manner In which the MUIR
der WAS Discovered. -
Correspondence OF The Detroit Advertiser and
ADn1As, september Is, 1865.
Saturday morning officers Tayer and Avery
took the women Southworth aud Weaver to
Detroit 10 deliver them to the Canadian au-
thorities- The girl, Charlotte Squtaworth.
has made what she claims to be- q full
confession, giving all the details .9 Of
sickness and death. shes ssys Sic
went to Detroit on the I'd day OF
June last at Mrs. W.'s request, and there met
Post, Mrs. y. arriving q day or two later,
when they all went direct to London. living
there as stated in the AdxTisfr and 1rsonne
death Shortly offer going there Post BE-
came jealous Of Mrs. ", By reason Of her
familiarities with other men. and declared
that he would not live with her II she went
With others. This offended her, and she tod
Charlotte that "she should make way With
the old man, and should have his property,
too." Soon after this Charlotte went
to Detroit, and was gone q few days
mud when she returned Mrs. ". aud
Post were. On the most friendly terms,
and he declared his Intentions to viii her
everything he. had. Mrs. ". urged him to
! make his will right away as he might be
| taken aWny..Hc accordingly made his will AS
heretofore stated, on the ees3d Of August, and
i was read By all three at the time. Mr..
true to him he would let the will remain,
but If she was not, he could make another
| one, aud the last one would hold. After
Post had left the room, Mrs. W. said to
Charlotte that she would make away with
him and he would not have an opportunity
/ IN 1,at-a nnnthnr xEf1f frho f1ny
soon after Mrs. ". told Char.
lotte that she had given him some
laudanum that would lay him out. She af
terward said she did not think It would kill
him, and gave hl1n more several times, end
ai1er taking the last dose he never revived
Charlotte also says that AIrs- ". gave be,
money to buy arsenic to give to Post; thai
she got the arsenic, and Mrs. ": gave soint
to him. bnt she does rot know how much
eays she did not see Mrs. ". give either th'
arsenic or the 1audannu,, and only know
what Mrs. ". told her. The morning ATE
Post died {hc died Tuesday morning, Angus
%, about one O'Clock, instead Of on Sunday
MS heretofore stately Mrs: ". told Charlotte
would make it ali right Will. herr to whicl
Charlotte assentca ana agreed never to dl
yulge the secret.
Charlotte ,nade tl,is confession at the jai
On the Sunday atler her arrest, in the pres
cnce Of the sun nnd-son-fn-1aw Of Dir. Pos
and seveml officers, after having denied /.
tlleir presence, with great eoolncss, al
knowledge Of any foul means used agnins
the old man. Some mInntes after giving he
first version Of the affair. she broke com
plctely down aud sobhcd violently, and sal
She would tell all that she felt as thong
. thc could not keep It any longer. and the
went out and gnve the statement nhoy,
which Was not made public for some dnyl
! for prudential reasons. Mrs. W. hayin
) found ont that Charlotte had confessed
that poisoned the old mnn, aud that she Nv
knew II at the time, but agreed not to te
It." She, however, says hut little about i
refusing to 70 at all into detail. One contl
> tion of the will was, that he should /
8 buried beside his first wile In Palmyra,
!. T., Which condition she complied with, e
t ing there with the body md taking wi
b ness with her from London. AT Palmyl
!. she saw the aged mother Of Nj. Post, ar
they passed by the name Of Howell, II
Ing nj London. This the mother knew
+ be falsc, and Posts second wife was :
! ntlyc md with her friends In Hillsaa
! | County, to whom she Immediately wrot
:. they going at once to London, revealing Il
whole matter, the inquest in the meantin
r having been concluded with verdict
! "dcath By pofsSSnlng S !" and % the i9ah woman i,a
I e esfiPsa s Pat TIE rqs sods se soaR iR b Sa1
!: Palmyra Was undoubtedly the means of Il
i covering one Of the largest contemplated al
= most heartlcss murders ever commttte
/. She sars she had converted two 81 900 Unit
e States bonds into money, 81 900 Of viii
d | she Lad spent. An administrator has be-
d appointed here, who has taken the mon
b and new; clothing into his custody.