The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-06

sunday night after he was buried. | was
! sent for, and found her in a state OF great
nervous excitement. She quoted down and
asked the ladies present to leave the room.
She asked nc then "What caused Charlie
Aliens death" ! told her that Il was nv
opinion that he died of poison. After
moments silence she said: sCharlic said
| il he had another Of these spells he would
die, and said must sell the horses and the
wheat and pay his debts" On one occasion
| during his illness she asked me what was
| wrong" with him. On Friday she asked
| me what | thought, and / told her that
| thought he would get well. She made no
reply. The deceased attempted to take nour-
! iShment. but his stomach was so irriated
that he threw it up. There was no vomit-
| ing OH saturday. He was then dying. He
WAS conscious an hour and n halt before his
death. | gave him antidotes to poison on
Thursday night, when suspected that was
| the callSe. he improved Friday, and on
| Saturday was much worse. | have no rea-
| son. from the symp: OILS. to believe that adj.
| ditiona! poison had been administered after
| the first dose, but came TO that conclusion
| because OF the sudden change for the worse
| III his condition.
| HIS WIFE ADMINISTERED ALL THE MEDICINE
| which | left with the family, and left drec-
| tons for administering it with his wife. /
| am clear in the belief that the antidotes /
gave him relieved him.
THE POST MoRTEM.
DR.. 4. NJ. Fauntlcroy testified that from
Dr.. Erawford'S statements his impression
| was that there was something other than the
diseases to which the human body is sub
lcct. How his nervous system may have
been undermined ny the continued exist
| cNcc OF an old wound. DR.. Faun,lcroy could
! not say. but from DR.. Crawford's history he
was of the opinion that something had been
administered 10 Mr.. Allen 10 produce the
effects described. The convulsions spoken
OF hy Or. Crawford look very much like
| those vausrd by >trychninc. There is nothing
! about the condition of the body today
which indicates the caii>c Of death. The
presence of poison in the stomach would
throw much hight on the testimony. An On
animation can bc made in two or three day
WHERE SHE PURCHASED POISON.
~. EirhclI}ry@cr: know Mrs. Charles
\l,ru. but only III the last two weeks. The
nr,t Iuar saw her she came 70 my store
Tuesday before his death aud rot Il bottle Of
httc.> and some arsenic. She
| ASKED FOR STRYCiNING,
| and told he. had none. then gave her
! arsenic. and explained IL her how 10 Use il
! ~ kill ratS. Which wa, the purpose She salt.
| She wanted il for. sold her an ounce.
| That wa> tie day Allen wa, taken. She told
me. her name ana where ilcr husband lived,
| ana aid hc was subject 10 spells. She called
nj my store last Monday after her husband
| WAS buried. She w..S in 4 carriage. ana VAS
dressed in deep mourning. She asked some
thing about ii poison could be discovered II
;Ec Dudy was taken up. and said
| sIlE WANTED THE BODY TAKEN IT,
Is remarks were bcin" madC about her in
connection with his death. She wanted to
! know If poison could be discovered after
| burial: tha, Or. Crawford said It could not,
aud Size Wa> going 10 St,tUaton to see DI>.
Iaunrlcroy and NcCh">ncy. she said she
| hadn't used the arsenic. bot had thrown II
| in the tire that she and "Chaic" didn't
| Ike Ii in the house. and she would get more
when he got better.
HER QUESTIONS TO I'E. CRAWFORD.
! DR.. Crawford recalled: have no recollcc
tiou that Mrs. Allen asked me the Sunday
njynt her husband was buried whether. il
the BODY was di>intcrrca. poison could be
found. To-day She asked ne that question
and told her from the quantity thrown Oil
| his stomach hardly thought ii could.
| have spoken 10 >cvcra! persons since Tuesday
about Allen being poisoned.
The jury tLcn adjourned till O'Clock
| Tuesday morning.
| THE ARREST->uE Is LODGED Is JAlL-lIEE
| STATEMENT.
| After Coroner Cushing adjourned the in
ulir>t to meet on Tuesday next, Magistrate
| Charles :. Roller issued 4 warrant for the ar
rest OF Mrs. Allen. and Yesterday about :
o'clock officer Roller went to her residence.
| He found her in bed. suffering from nervous
prostration, and after some time spent
| in dressing she came to town WIN
him, accompanied by her hu>hand' sister,
| Miss Eliza Allen, both dressed in deep
mourning. at the hall OF the jail Mrs. Allen
sank into chair. holding the hand OIL her
>isier-in-ttw. and both women wept bitter =.
Ipon being led up stairs into her cell she
looked the picture of despair, pacing across
the floor with unsteady steps, hcf lailuS
| locked tightly together. and Miss Allen sit
TING hy weeping. The prisoner was so pros
tratcd that Il physician had to be sent Tor.
In the afternoon she was calm6r. and our
rcportcr had Il conversation with her. lie
| found her sitting in the broad seat Oh the jail
window gazing out through the bars. On as
| surfing her that. having to report facts adverse
| to her. lie should like also TO give her state
| mcnt, if she could make one without compro-
missing herself, she said, = can't say anything:
| | have done nothing" She went on win
| some minutcneSs to describe the physicians
treatment of her husband, and added: My
| husband had had three attacks before. L
made no conceaImcnt when gave him the
medicine, but gave it openly before all in
| the room who were waiting on him. Me
and Charlie always lived happily together,
/ and he was good kind husband TO me.
There was no reason should do him harm,
and I never did him any. l came to
stanton the morning | passed DR.. Elcli-
| elbcrgcr's to lind DR.. Fauntleroy or
| McChcsncy to have my husband Ia
ken up and | had gotten us far as the
house they told me Dr.. Fauntleroy lived in
when nv husbands half-brothcr met me and
told me had better wait and see father.
told him that would not do, as every day $
| DELAY made it worse. and l wanted to have
his body taken up at once. lie persuaded
me to wait, and went back home. wanted
the body taken up" Mrs. Allen answered
clearly and rapidly, and seemed rather TO
desire questioning than avoiding ii.
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! DEATHS from IMPURE WATER Lynch
| burg IuyinIGn.l- "A small settlement called
| Nccdmorp, on the line between Botctourt
and Roanoke counties, has lately been the
scene Of several dc;It.I> of such achtractcr as