The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-24
/ Attempt at Wife Poisoning in Michigan.

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A LAWYER OF NEW YORK CONVICTED ILLICIT LOVE
AND ArTEMPTAD MURDER, ETC
The criminal in this case rs CALVIN NJ Northrup
lawyer OF this CITY, who figured in the courts some
deceased Ia Miss Vedder) whose family reside i'm
Miss Yedder, Northrup BECAME counsel m a d,v6rce
suit ior woman named Humphreys against her
brought his client TO live with his family
The intimacy between Cnent and counsel became
so apparent that Mrs. Northrup became dis
gusied and made her parents Acquainted with the
facts who instituted proceedings IN the supreme
Court o. this State against Notthrup on the ground
NOrthrup within few months after her death made
the acquaintance OF Miss Eliza White, and by pro.
LESSONS OF fengous education ana a sincere al.
tachment, won the heart and hand of the victim of
his cruelty. '|T y VIZ ''O VI
A bnei narrative of the evidence as deveIoned on
the trial lastweeK at Bedford, Westchestor county
before Hon JuoRe Gilbert, is as follows :Northr1ip
married MISS White IN the month OF July 1864,
something less than five months after the decease OF
his first wife, and proceeded therr wedding tour
to Saratoga, where he introducep Miss Humphreys
10 nls Wne as young lady OF great responsibility
and possessed of large fortune, and Ior whom ne
was tIansactIng large law busnes His wife received
on her at New York where they lived together
at various places-at the Bancroft House Fiftv.
fourth street and Twenty-fourtR street when Ms
NOrthrup discovered an intimacy between her hus .
band ana Miss Humphreys, which caused her 10
separate from him and reside with her parents IN
pentent and requested his wife to return ano pro.
missed that he would purchase house for her in
tuOiAiehnla WlONVs DUH lOOk possession OF the
house IN April, 1866, when Mrs. NOrthrup was de.
liyered of a child. .. .....
:, After the birth of the child, Northrup brought
bourbon whisky TO the house, and endeaYOred to
make the wife Drink IL. she drank at his request
twice. and found that the whisky did not agree with
her, and refused to drink any more. six DAYS after
her confinement he " ged her to drink half tumb-
Ter OF what he called Plantation BitteTs 20 she drank
about half the quantity urged on ner when She suf-
Tered severe pans. About two weeks after when
Mrs. NOrthrup had recovered strength, she was IN
Vted by her husband TO 90 down stairs to breakfast
Cn md w.CNa
for her. which he informed her was prepared by
hlmself She drank the coffee and returned to her
room, when she was Sc zed with the feelings as
when she drank the Plantation Btters, but much
more intense, and she tell into profound stuDor,
which quite exhausted her and IN the presence
OF her servant suffered intense agony. NOrthrup,
alter administering the coffee, went to New
! ork, and returned earlier IN the evening
than usual and administered powerful dose OF
morphine, which relieved her considerably. Two
weeks 1uTther on, the girl Susan OHarra, by the
direction Of Northrup, took to Mrs. NOrthrup a
bowl OF tea, which she drank, and shortly after tell
into supor, which did not pass off for five hours,
when she called for doctor, but Northrup refused
next day, and found the patient suffering under
all the symptoms Of poison. He told hls
patient that she was suffering from the
presented his victim with another cup of coffee
which She did not drink, out pr served for DR..
Horton, who gave 1t to hs dog, which, alter drink
ing it, presented all the symptoms OF having been
poisoned. Mrs NOrthrup then procured a key
which opened the trunk OF her wouid.be murderer
wal was taken to the doctor, who pronounced it
to be tincture of belladonna, The doctor re-
moved the contents OF the vial into vial of
his own, and retilled it with the same cOlOred
liquid as before, and replaced it in the trunk of
Nor,hIup. A few mornings after Mrs NorthTup
entered her kitchen, when she saw her husband
emptYlng the contents of a bottle into a cup of
coffee filed out 1or her, and he then went to New
YORK. Mrs, Northrup gave the coffee to her dog,
which was afterwards seized with the same symp-
toms as the Doctors dog In July Mrs. NortnrUp
reJoined her stepfather John Taylo a well-known
member OF the Methodist church of Brooklyn. Mr.
Lay or put the matter in the hands of Chauncey
Shater, who consulted DIR. Joseph Hene, No 81
East Eleventh street, on the effects of beadonna
and then put the matter in the hands OF District
Attorney Mcclellan, of Westchester county who
indicted NOrthrup for an attempt at poisoning.
1he case has excited more interest IN Westchester
county than any within the memory of the
Oldest citizen. The court house and court yard
were crowded during the progress OF the trial Pro.
tessors Doremus and Budd Dr. Horton ana other
eminent physicians were examined. The prosecu-
non was conducted by John S. Bates the present
District Attorney OF NestChester county, and
Chauncey Shafer The defense was conducted by
Robert Cochran and Levi - Chatfeld. The case
was submitted 10 the jury at O'Clock on Friday
morning, and at they brought in a verdict of
guilty. The prisoner was remanded Tor sentence to
the first Monday of February next. The penalty is
imprisonment IN the State Prison for term of not
less than ten years.-NeIO York Herald OF yesterday