The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-18
Tho Curiositiea of CrImc-XVas Potter
BunenburR Polaoned.

conslderahie$ interest throughout the
county. We copy the follovingSinter-
esting statement Of the condition of
things from tho Cincinnati Enquirer:
The good people Of Madison County,
OF oil ages, sexes, colors and conditions,
think mud speak of nothing but the great
Now York banker is charged with ad-
ministering arsenic to her first husband.
in order to marry man younger in
years. but not 30 great in wealth.
| Opinions rs to the guilt or innocence OF
the woman charged with the Borgian
crime Of poisoning her husband are
about equally divided. The oldest and
best citizens believe in her innocence;
others, equally respectable, in her guilt.
Peter Buffenburg, mot Puffenberger,)
the husband OF the woman charged with
poisoning him, was married about the
year 1860 to Angeline Hutson, the
daughter Of farmer in moderate cir
cumstnnces. When married, Potter, was
an old bachelor, verging on seventy
years the blushing bride little upward
Of twenty, fair to look upon, with we'll
rounded form. the organ of amntiveness
we'll developed on her Uranium and in
her character. The gay bridegroom,
although near the three. years and
ten allotted by the Psalmist to man on
earth, still loved q od-looking lass, and
was fond of her society. For one of his
age, he was hale and hearty. He was
rich-one Of the nabobs of the stock
raiscrs of Madison County counting his
acres by the thousands, and thousands
OF cattle on the plains he could count us
his own. On his wedding-trip, he vi
sited Cincinnati. aud there, at the Burnet
House, he met r. Colburn, Of New
York, IVorld reporter, to whom he in
troduced his wife. Between the fair
headed youth from New York md the
brunette bride there was love at first
sight. The Intimacy was kept up until
the death of Buffenburg and his burial.
when, in the lapse OF years time, the
widow changed her mourning TO the gny
dress of bride, and became Mrs. Ange-
line Colbnrn. -
death, he had been sick. For year be-
fore ho died. he was confined in his
room. In justice to the woman charged
with the crime Of numbering him, let it
be recorded that she was faithful nurse,
and tended to him as loving wife. Be
fore he died, he gave her, of his own
free will, farm of 600 acres Of the rich
est soil, worth then between 935, 600 and
S4G.0 At his death, Buffenburg left
property and lands, money and personal
property. worth near S750.000. It was
mistake to say he willed the property
to his wife and her children, 30 that she
could control it. He made no qoiN, but
left his large property to be settled as the
law directs when no will is made.
Mr.. r. T. Colburn, the second hus-
band of the former Angeline Hutson,
was on the IVorlTs staff of reporters
before and during the war. lie was
with Grant at Vicksburg, aud in running
the batteries at that place he was cap
tnred and held for a time rs prisoner
by tho Confederate General Pemberton.
After his release. he entered the bank of
Fisk, Hatch & Co., No. Nassau street,
New York, where he is still. Since his
marriage with lis lady love, relict OF the
late Mr.. Buffenburg, he has resided ut
Elizabethtown, New Jersey. .
The late Peter Bnffenburg, whom he
died or was murdered, left two children,
one young ludy, now eighteen, the
other miss of six. The devoted attcn-
ton of Colburn to Mrs. B. before the
death of her husband, the talk That was
about their intimacy, the fact that Mrs.
Is. III her girl and in her wife life was
not above suspicion, caused many to
charge that both children were the Off
spring Of illicit love, and that their fn-
ther was Colburn. Against this is the
iaot that Buffenburg was dark, very dark :;
Mrs. B. was few shades lighter, while
Colburn was white haired. The eldest
daughter looks like her mothers hus-
band. The second daughter is much
darker in complexion than her mother,
and neither has, in form or feature, any
resemblance to Colburn. That Buffen-
burg, after being buried for five years,
was disinterred, and his stomach ana
lyzed by the best poison chemist in the
United States, and found to contain
large Quantities Of arsenic. is fnct we'll
established. How it came there is the
question.
The following is the statement of Pro-
fessor Wormly:
[ analyzed the stomach of person
brought to mo for that purpose, and said
to be that of Peter Buffenburg. Madison
County, Ohio, deceased. I found arse
Mo in sqid stomach and liver. I, this
day, handed my official report to the
! coroner OF Mndison Comfy. who will