Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Mary stanuaYd's Murderer.

ttnt fSefih e. j6stfcss court for the
murder of Mary f. Stannard attract
ed the attention of the whole country,
was again arrested, this evening, in
Madison by County Sheriff Byxbee,
upon . bench warrant issued this
noon by Judge Hitchcock, OF the su-
perior court upon an information
submitted by Judge Lynde Harrison,
counsel for the state. and signed by
States Attorney OH. Plat. He was
at once brought to this city and now
lies in the county jail. This new
step in what must become one of the
most celebrated cases in criminal an
nails was not . surprise. Since Mr..
Hayden's acquittal by Justice Wilson
the case of the prosecution has rapid
ly developed, and this second arrest
is the result Of the discovery Of new
and most important evidence. Two
eminent experts, Prof. M. z. White,
of Yale Medical College, and Prof. 8.
w. johnson, who holds the chair Of
Chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific
School Of Yale, have been at work
upon Mary Stannard's stomach, and
have found In it enough arsenic to
kill the whole community of Rock
land where she lived. This, the state
claims, is tho quick medicine which
Hayden told Mary he had bought in
Middletown when he met her at the
spring, Tuesday noon, and told her to
meet him in An hour and . half by
the big rock, where her body was
found. 1t will be remembered by
those who read the evidence that on
the witness stand Hayden testified
that on that Tuesday morning in
Middletown he did buy at Tyler's
drug store an ounce Of arsenic to kill
rats with; that when he got home he
did not tel! his wife he had bought
il because she was afraid OF pois-
ons, but put it on beam In his barn
under the hay that he had used none
Of il, and that it must be there in an
unbroken package. The states coun-
sci have looked for that arsenic, but
cannot find it, but the chemists have
already found in MAry's stomach a
mass Of fifty or sixty grains of arsen-
ic wholly unabsorbad, to say nothing
Of what was absorbed. Until Hay
den, to account for his visit to cer-
tain part of Middletown, had to tes-
tify about buying this arsenic, the
state was at loss what poison to look
for. They had decided to look for
powerful abortion medicines, but in
this we're hampered by the parsimony
of the town authorities and lack Of
authority from the state officers: but
when they knew what he had bought
their course was clear, and Judge
Harrison asked for delay in the JUS
tice's court to enable him to COM
plete the investigation. Failing to
get 1t, counsel withdrew ffom that
court, but not from the prosecution
of the case, and the result sho VS. their
wisdom. The theory Of the state, in
accordance with the summary of
their excluded evidence, 10 that Hay
den gave Mary . huge dose of arsen-
ic when he met her at the big rock,
having told her that il was "quick
medicine" 10 produce abortion that
the introduction into her system of
such quantity of this poison soon
put her In agony; that she shrieked
with pain, and for the first time see-
ing her destroyer's intention, and
that he must have given her poison,
she accused him Of his treachery, and
started for her home to tell her
friends before Il should be too late !;
that Hayden, fearing that she would
reach her friends and expose him, and
seeing that in his anxiety to remove
her from among the living he had
overshot the mark, felled her to the
earth with the blood-stained stone
found there. and then cut her throat.
Last Thursday, under authority of
the states attorney, the chemists be-
gan their work on Mary's stomach,
which has been In Prof. Whites pos
session ever since the body was ex.
humed. They were instructed to
look for oil Of savin, oil Of tansy, er-
got, and arsenic. Almost ct the be-
ginning they discovered the combi-
nation produced by arsenic and the
sulphurcted hydrogen, which 10 the
result Of decomposition, and very
soon the grains OF unabsorbed arsenic
were revealed. Usually such Q huge
dose would he thrown off the stomach
immediately after being given, but il
this case It had remained. The stAto'l
attorney was put in possession Of the
facts yesterday, and when these dis.
coveries were laid before Superior
Court Judges Hitchcock and Culver
they at once agreed that . bench war
rant should immediately BE-, Issued
It Was issued, and the sheti1 went Oh
the cars to Guildford md then b,
carriage to Madison. On his way II
to the city Haydenewas smiling an,
talkative o. on any day Of his trIe
Counsel for the slate claim that ~"
their case n 6iciont for any Jny'