Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-15
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the following day. On Wednesday,
Sept. 3, it having come to the know
dge of Coroner E. NJ. Gushing that
Mrs. Allen had bought poison on two
occasions previous to her husbands
death, and that the physician who at.
tended him in his last moments was of
the opinion that he had been poisoned,
that officer had the body exhumed sand
the stomach given to Drs. Fauntleroy
aud McChesney for analysis.
At the inquest DR.. w. M. Crawford,
the family physician, testified that in
his opinion Mr. Allen died OF poison.
He was taken sick suddenly at supper
on the Tuesday preceding his death,
when he had objected to taste of bowl
of chicken soup which his wife had
given him. The doctor did not suspect
that he had been poisoned until next
day, and then gave him the proper an
tidotes, which improved his condition.
On Saturday, however, he was much
worse, and the doctor came to the n
clusion that additional poison had been
administered. DIR. Crawford talked
with the vile on Sunday night after the
funeral, having been sent for to see her.
He found her under great nervous ex-
element. She asked whether the doc
tor supposed Charley, her husband, had
, died of poison, and the witness answer
ed affirmatiyely. She then inquired if
poison could be detected should the
body be disinterred, and the witness
said he thought not, judging from the
quantity thrown off from the stomach.
Mr.. Eichelberger, the druggist near
Mount Sidney, testified that Mrs Allen
purchased bottle of bitters and some
arsenic at his store ON Tuesday, the day
her husband was taken sick.
She asked for strychnine, but he had
none. He told her how to use the ar
senic to kill rats, which she said was her
purpose. Last Monday, after her hus-
bands burial, she again called at the
drug store and asked whether poison
could be discovered if the body was
taken up ; that DIR. Crawford said it
could not, and she was going to Staun-
ton to see Drs. Fauntleroy and Met hes-
ney. She said she hadn't used the
arsenic but had thrown it in the fire !;
that she and Charlie didn't like it in
the house. She said she wanted the
body taken up, as remarks were being
made about her in connection with his
death.
The inquest was then adjourned until
this morning to await the post norton
and analysis of the stomach. Mrs. AL
len was arrested. The officer found her
bed suffering from nervous prostration.
Her sister-in-law, Miss Eliza Allen &C.
companied her to the Jail in this city.
In the hall of the Jail Mrs. Allen sank
into chair, holding the hand of her
sister in law, and both women wept Bit
terly. Upon being led up stairs into
her cell she looked the picture of des-
pair, pacing across the floor with I'M
steady steps, her hands locked tightly
together, and Miss Allen sitting by
weeping. The prisoner was so prostrat-
ed that physician had to be sent for.
In the afternoon she was calmer.
What Mrs. Allen says, to reporter
who questioned her she said :
81 can't say anything. L have done
nothing" She went on with some
minuteness to describe the physician s
treatment of her husband, and added,
"My husband had had three attacks be-
fore. / made no concealment when
gave him the medicine, but gave it open
ly before all in the room who were wait
ing on him. Me and Charlie always
lived happily together, and he was a
good, kind husband to me. There was
no reason I should do him harm, and I
never did him any. 1 came to Staun-
ton the morning l passed DIR. Eichel-
berger's to find DR.. Fauntleroy or
McChesney to have my husband taken
up, and had gotten as far as the house
they told me DR. +. lived in when my
husbands half brother met me and told
me had better wait and see father. l
told him that would not do, as every
days delay made it worse, and wanted
to have his body taken up at once. He
persuaded me to wait, and went back
home. wanted the body taken up. !"
Mrs. Allen answered clearly and rapid
ly, and seemed rather to desire ques-
tioning than to avoid it.
This morning the investigation was
continued, ex-seeretary of the Interior
A. FL. H. Stuart appearing for Mrs.
Allen. The testimony for the defence
was chiefly given by Miss Eliza Allen,
who testified that he directed his wife
to buy the orsenic to kill rats; that she
(the witness) made the chicken soup in
which it was believed the poison was adj
ministered, and that she dished it out
for her brother, and that the wife had
nothing to do with it.
Another witness testified that the ply
stefan who attended Allen in his last mo-
ments told him (witness) that he ought
to get double barreled gun and shoot
Napier, O man with whom Mrs. Allen
had been disreputably named, and also
that the man Napier was at Aliens
house to see Mrs. Allen the day after
her husbands funeral. The medical
men testified to the fact that the ana
lysis, though only partially completed,
showed the probable presence of arsenic,
the stomach having yieldeda precipi-
tate that nothing but arsenic yields.
The jury, Notwithstanding the testi-
mony of the dead mans sister, which
evidently was not credited by them,
brought in verdict after five minutes
deliberation, Of murder against Mrs.
Sarah M. Alien, and her preliminary ex-
animation takes place in Staunton on
Thursday.
Mrs. Allen is a daughter of Major
Samuel ID. Slower, citizen of high
standing and in good circumstances,
living near Mt. Sidney. She is hand
some brunette, of middle size, about
thirty one years of age, with raven black
hair and n fine fpnre She has been