The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-10
THE ALLEN POISONING CASE.
EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES.
Verdict Of the Coroncr's Jury.

Especial telegram To tie Dispatch.l
STAUSToN, Va, September 9.--pursuant
to adjournment, the jury of inquest met this
morning at Mount Sidney in order to hear
further testimony az to the death Of Charles
W. Allen, whom it was alleged had been
poisoned by his wife, Sarah II. Allen, and
who died on Saturday the 25d OF August, al
his residence, two miles south of Mount Sid
ney and about eight miles from Staunton.
Before O'Clock quite large crowd had
assembled at the place where the inquest
was to be held, and in 4 short while the cor
oner (E. NJ. Cushing), accompanied by the
sheriff (Wiliam L. Moloy), arrived.
Before the jury met, which was at 10
o'clock, the Commonwealth attorney Gap
tain James BumsardnerI, Drs. William 5.
McChesney, A. NJ. Fauntleroy, Newton
Wayt, j. Newton McChesney. the Clerk Of
the County Court (WiIliam 4. Burncttl, Dep
uty Sheriff Courtney Roller, and the Hon.
Alexander II. II. Stuart rs counsel for
the accused, were in attendance.
The jury Of ipqnes. was as follows: Dan
iel W. Link, William Z. Johnson, Larkin j.
Smith, Hamlet Moore, Henry Edison, Z. l..
Houtf, John \. Critzer, ,J.W. Shoemake, John
w. Watson. Abner Shoemakc, Willilm Nc
Cue, and +. L. Edmondson.
The testimony taken at the former partial
| inquest was read by the coroner, which has
| already been published in the Dispatch.
The whole day was spent in the cNamina-
| ton of the following witnesses DR.. Will
liam NJ. Crawford, physician of the neigh
borhood, who attended the deceased during
his illness DR.. Newton Wayt, druggist, OF
Staunton, from whom Mrs. Allen purchased
arsenic on the 23d of August; DrS. y. NJ.
| Fauntleroy and Willam ). McChesncy, both
Of Staunton, who made thc pOSt-mOrtcm cX-
| animation, and who, assisted by DR.. William
Hamilton, of the Western Lunatic Asylum,
applied the chemical tests in the cXamina-
| ton of the stomach OF the deceased, the
| result of which was sufficient to ground
suspicion of the probability of the presence
of arsenic; DR.. W. l.. Bell, who was neigh.
boring physician and identified the cxhumcd
| body as that OF Charles w. Allen; Captain
John c. Webb and J. w. Norman, who were
called in on Tuesday evening when Allen was
first seriously attacked John Parkins, upon
whose place deceased lived, and who is posi-
| tive in his belief as to the innocence of the
accused, and was frequently with the de-
ceased, both day and night, during his
illness, aud was present when he died Miss
Eliza Allen, sister Of the deceased and q
member of the family. Whose testimony is
strongly in favor of the innocence o
the accused; Courtney Roller, deputy sheriff
who says DR.. Crawford made statements tc
him as to the cause of the death Of Allen
attributing it to gangrcne, arising from the
old and still running wound in his ankle.
The verdict of the coroner'S jury was tha
Charles w. Allen. on the 23d day of August
1873, died from the effects of poison, which
was given to him, the said Charles W. Allen
by Sarah NJ. Allen with intent the salt
Charles w. Allen to kill and murder.
The examining trial of the accused vii
tlke place in Stilinton OH next Thursday
September llth, 1873.