Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-28
EVENING STAR.
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SERVANT GIL coSFEssEs HAviss arvrr
POISON TO skR NIsrRKss AT THE ISsuaA-
TioN oT TIVE HusRAND.
A remarkable ease OF attempted wife murder
or OF reckless teese swearing came q light yea
terdsy In Brooklyn. Mr.. Atwood, living st Nc.
30 Flushing avenue, called on Capt McLangh-
In, At the Sth precinct station, and stated tsst
MIS-. Harte.Nu, who lived In HE houSe had a
S.ees At Pai..hogae, the wife Of a Capt samuel
Smith, arhtp- eruker OF South street Neu Yort.
that this Mrs Smith had had poison admins
tsred TO her by servant girl at the inst stios
had come up to h. -ooklyn. Acting upon M. "a
vice, the police vsated the present resadence AZ
Mrs. Smith, No. SIS Flushing svenpc, srre.toI
the servant girl, Ann haughton, and took her
TO the 9th precinct IsOlice station. where she
told q remarkable stor Y 60 Capt Mclaughlin
To sum &c up In brief, she charges that Capt
Samuel Smith, = ship-bT Vker of south street
hired her 90 90 20 his resia snce AZ Pstchogue a.
nurse for Mrs Smith. that he and Mrs. Rs-
ian induced her 10 administer N1me powders 70
MIS- smith, who Immediately became SICK;
that after giving = number OF tfese povders
sue took one herself and 10 made asr sick whaoh
seems TO have convinced her tina the captais
tcahy meant mischief. Soon after. she saws, he
aNowed desire TO get rid OF his wife As "a
WIS hulsn and they promised h-r siOO her
Nc S 70 s.,hh,esge, and All the ito bsl deceased
mfs smith SIR dresses, n she wouls, ii nlsh tie
bait- completed job with \ hammer Whethor
moved by the money. the promised tr!p 10 CHI
cago, OF the silk dresses. she does not ssy nat
st any rate she consented AT the la-t hs.r
ever, her heart failed her, and she confessed An
10 her mistress, who. she SAYS. tried the rem aims
ana finding Il made her sick, too, went home 20
her mother In Law IN Brooklyn. and the gentle
Anna went and told the police. who arrested
Capt Smith. Anna claims, a. Is usual in such
cases 20 have been Improperly init mate WITH
her master, but does not bring this forward A.
snything more than an episode In the affair
Mrs. Smith, IL IL said, thinks she nav have been
poisoned, but does not believe her Husband
guilty, and he simply denies the whole charge
FEHNOH MoNARCHICAL ISrRreuBs IN.
Cologne Gazette, on the authority of .struSt-
worthy private Intelligence" from Paris saw.
the leaders OF the Eoonarchical intrigues there
have made preparations against An on thur.t
OF popular dissatisfaction. The garriSons Of
Paris and the neighhorhoOd have been
pu posely composed OF regiments chiefly re
cruited from the provinces known 90 be faithfuI
20 the monarchy. Efforts have been vigorously
made 20 win over the army 20 the Bourbos
cause, aud promises Of rewards and distinctions
have been scattered abroad with lavish hand
IL 10 expected that the republicans will not
nake any attempt at rising tiu after the re-
storaton Is an accomplished fact aud in that
case the "psrty OF ORDER will be quite re.dy
TOT then even n they should take 90 the straetx
In Vienna, the correspondent of the Cologne
Gssette, In that town, says, lit is believed Ia
moderate circles that the French Roysli-ts
VIII succeed in realizing their project Rut ft
IL thought that France is 80 much weaker
ana so much less capable OF action AZ pre-
sent than rs generally believed that even
italy, 70 say nothing OF Germany, has nothing
10 Tear from the restoration of Henry "
Only II France succeeded IN forming an alliance
with Russia and Austria would there be AN,
cause 70 dread action IN one direction or the
other. The French legtimists, OF course dream
OF such combination; but so far as the imme-
diate future is concerned. they have as little 40
nope Tor from the Emperor Francis .JOseph a.
from the Gar Alexander. so long As Count
Andrassy ans the present ministry are in ONCE
tien." 49,