The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-03-09
PASTOR VOSBURGH'S ARREST
ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED POISONING
by HIS BROTHER IN-LAW.
re is Pst Uader 81 900 Bau-Nveii-knowu
Lawyers Retained for the Defence MIRA
NOshmrsh's Confidence In Her Hnsbnnd.

vosbmrsh's Confidence In Her Husband.
The Rev. George Il. Voeburgh. pastor Of
the Madison Avenue Baptist Church of Bergen
Heights. Jersey City. accused by his brother-in-
law Mr.. James N. Slckles and Or. George d.
Cornell OF attempting to poison his wife, was
arrested yesterday on complaint OF the former.
The afdavt OF Mr. Sickes alleges that on the
18th. 18th and 18th days of February last Mr..
Vosburgh wilfully put antimony. being deadly
poison. into water and tea and into liquid said
to contain a homeopathic dose Of nux vomica
and Delladona. maliciously intending to poison
Hattie A. vosburgh.
The affidavit was dated on Thursday, but the
warrant was not issued until Yesterday. After
signing the AFFIDAVIT. Mr.. Sickes sent the wife
Of Deacon Bumstcd 10 bis sister to suggest to
her that she should leave her home and go to
Stuyvesant for the present to live with him and
her parents and thus escape tho excitement and
annoyance incident to the arrest OF her husband,
which, he said. had been postponed to enable
her TO do so. She refused 10 go The warrant
was served on Mr.. vosburgh in his library
at about IL o'clock. Roundsman McTIorney
allowed him TO leave his house unaccom-
panied TO secure bondsman. He returned in
few minutes with Mr.. .W,n. Robertson. .
former bus mess partner Of Deacon Bumsted.
rfs Ia win hen mr. Egse9H gns
, .an,Sf as bondsman. the bail being fixed a.
On an invitation from Mrs. Vosburgh q re-
porter for THE Syn visited her yesterday in
her sick room. She was very pale, and talked
her head supported with pillows, H, face Is
Intelligent and Sgreposse,sslng. although worn
her brother first broached his suspicion TO her
she had repelled it. This was on Thursday.
band came in and and offered her some grnei e She
| drank II without hesitation. and II did her good.
| She said that she remembered the circum-
stances, Of her, sickness very well; Her stom-
band had given her, but not oftener than IT had
rejected medicine given her by her brother and
the other nticndanis. In the three days mem
| These were sunday Monday. and Tuesday.
| Feb. II. 1s and 10. On the afternoon OF Tues:
| day. as She remembered. DR.. Cornell stopped
| gan 70 recover Phillis Munjeon a colored
| servant. had given her water and tea prepared
suspicion against him. and 1t had done her
| good,
Dr. Cornell had also told her Of his suspicion
| against her husband. She thought Il was on the
| day following thnt on which her brother had
| spoken to her on IN" same subject, She had
| told him she did not believe il. She had never
| noticed any sediment in the glass. nor had she
| observed anything peculiar in the taste of the
| drinks given her by her husband. Her husband
| had been uniformly kind to her. and had been
very kind and Affect onate dur NJ her long sick
nesr. To prove that II WIS rheumatism OF tha
| stomach which had Threatened her life. sha
| showed her wrist. which was swollen, explains
| ing that as soon as the discasc had left hes
STOMACH II began TO reappear in the extremit es.
evening. H. has told his friends that he in
| tends tQ preach tomorrow. He has engaged aa
counsel ex-Gov. Joseph -. Bedlc. Fli,ve McGee,
and Charles II. Winfield. Plans for offensive
action are contemplated. but their nature is
kept secret, II IL supposed. howcXrr' N At
| they concern DR.. Cornell rather than Mr.. Sick.
| les. for the reason that no papers were served
| on the latter before he left the state.