The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-07

AN ENTIRE FAMILY POISONED BY A SON AND
BROTHER-THE FATHER AND MOTHER AND A
BoARDER DIE--CoEFEsSIOS OF THE MURDER
ER-AoNEY.TIE INCENTIVE TO THE CRIME.
EAsToN, PENN, Sunday, June 4, 1885,
The mystery attending the deaths which
have occurred in the Laros family within
the last few days, by poison, has ut last been
cleared up by the confession Of the MUIR
dercr, Allen G. Laros, the son Of two OF the
victims. On Wednesday last the family Of
Martin Laros, residing on the Delaware, at a
place called Mineral Spring, about five miles
above Easton, consisting OF himself, his
wife, six children-Allcn, Alvin, Erwin,
Alice, Clara, and Flora,-and Moses Schug,
who boarded with them, were taken more
or less i'll Immediately after supper.
DR.. A. X. Seem, OF Lower Mount Bethel,
was called, and, finding that all the symp-
toms indicated that they had been poisoned,
administered emetics and applied other rem
edies to relieve their sufferings. Toward
midnight they all grew worse, however, and
DR.. Junkin, OF Easton, was sent for. AT
his suggestion other antidotes were admin
istered, but they did not prove efficacious in
all the cases, as Mrs. Laros, the mother
Of the family, died at O'Clock the next
Thursday morning. Mr.. Laros, the father,
died at O'Clock on the same day, and Moses
Schue, the boarder at 8 o'clock on Friday
afternoon.
AS it had been remarked at the supper
table that there was a strange taste about the
coffee, the vessel in which it had been pre-
pared was examined, and heavy, white
sediment was found at the bottom. An
analysis OF this substance was made, and it
was found to be arsenic, and the quantity
was stated to be sufficient to kill hundred
persons. No cause could be assigned for
the act, and for some days the whole affair
was enveloped In mystery. At length it
was discovered that 4 secretary in which
Mr.. Laros was known to have deposited a
sum of money had been broken open and
the cash stolen, and that Mr.. Schug's trunk
had also been robbed OF a pocket-book con-
tanning $50 in United States currency.
When this became known suspicion was
directed toward Allen c. Laros, one OF the
family, a young man about tWenty-one years
Of age, who was engaged in teaching school
at schirnertown, near by. His character
was known>by many persons to be bad, and
they had no hesitation in expressing their
belief that he was the murderer, and so it
proved, for after being arrested he made the
following confession:
did it. The money is out near the sheer
stable. This was done on "Wednesday eve.
ming, the same night that [ put the poison
in the cotfee-pot. Iknew he This father had
money, but did BOT know how much.
took the money before | put the poison in
the coffce-pot. took Schug's money, too,
but don't know how much. l took none OF
his papers. / did this so that they might al
be dead, so could do with the money what
ever I pleased-that nothing more would
be said about it. I confess also that the
money taken from the place long time age
I took too. don't know how much it was,
but think it was fifty or sixty dollars. Itook
swallows Of the coffee, too. Twas Just as sick
a. pretended to'be. i only drank it so as
to throw them off Of suspicioning me. I want
YOU to pray for me, and ask all of Gods
people to pray for me. I have no wife mol
children. took the silver out OF my fathers
drawer and put it in Moses Schug's pocket,
book. / found Schug's pocket-book in his
chest in the garnet. Schug's pocket-book
was new one, and fathers is an old one
This. is my confession, true and faithful,
made in the presence Of Samuel Sandt, Jr.,
William Bitters, and George Schooley.
ALIEN c.. LAR0s.
The money was found where the prisoner
said he had placed it. In personal appear.
ance the murderer Is rather progressing,
and might be called q handsome young man