Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
A DEvILIsH DEED.
A Plot to Poison a We'll for. Purposes OF
ReUeNOe. 5a iE


Revenge,
5 Pittsburgh Special, July 81
This evening Mr.. Richard s. Alderman, a
we'll known oil merchant, came before Alder
! man Reilly and made an information against
a German, Alois Stobler, charging him, upon
information received, with attempting to
poison him (Waring) and his family in June
of last year. The information reads as fol-
lows: '.That on the - day of June, 1873,
the above named defendant, Aloes Stobler,
did then and there felonious.y attempt to
administer poison to the family of this aft
ant himself, by endeavoring to induce ono
John New, for certain sum of money, to
put Paris green. q deadly poison, into the
we'll of water on the premises of this affiant;
that the said inducement to the said John
New to place said poison in the we'll on the
premises of this affiant was done for the pur-
ose of destroying the life of this afiant and
atlantis family, said family and household
persons numbering about nine persons, con-
trary to the act of the Assembly in such
cases made and provided. This information
is made from information received.
The story, as related by Alderman Reilly,
as given to him, reads like some horrible
work of. French fiction, and on account of
the righteousness of the charge, makes it
seem impossible. The story is that Mr..
Warning, for about three years, has not been
residing continually at his fine country resi-
dence in the Fourteenth Ward, beyond Oak
land. About three years ago he employed
Stobler as a Waterman at his residence,
paying him $40 per month. After he had
been there some months he came to Mr..
Waring and reported that one day while he
was absent from the house it was broken
into and considerable of the fine furniture,
carpets and other things were stolen. Mr..
Wariny placed implicit confidence in the
mans integrity, and told him to keep
closer watch. He came several times within
the year and reported more robberies of a
similar kind. Yet Mr.. Warning had SO much
confidence in Stobler that he suspected
nothing wrong about him:
Some persons residing in the neighbor-
hood of Warnings residence finally reported
to Mr.. Warning that things were going on
wrong at his country mansion. This in
duced him to go out and take view of the
premises himself He found everything in
chaos. He found carpets and everything
valuable had been carried away. Stobler
also acted SO quecrly that he discharged him
from his employ, but went no further. This
was in June of last year. In the second
week of June of this year one of the mayors
police was speaking to man named John
Neuer, at the races in the East End. Neuer
reached into mis- rear brooches pocket for
handkerchief, but suddenly withdrew it. The
officer observed that his hand was green, so
he asked him to explain. Neuer said that
he had something to coafess. He then said
that when Stobler was discharged by
Mr.. Warning year ago he (Stobler) came to
him (Neur) and offered him inducements if
he (Neur) would poison the we'll on Mr..
Warnings place, and also poison the live
stock and then burn down the buildings.
Stobler gave him Paris green to poison the
water and live stock, and said that he would
furnish oil to throw over the buildings, and
set them on fire. The green in his pocket
was remnant of that given him by Stobler
a year ago. Neur said that another man
was offered the same inducements as he by
Stobler, but the man refused to give the
mans nane, as he has not been found out
yet. Mr.. Waring was notified. and finally
got along affidavit from Neur, stating in
substance as given above. Whereupon Mr..
Warning came before Alderman Reilly and
made the information given above. Stobler
claims it is conspiracy against him. He
was committed to Jail for hearing on Sat-
urday in default of $4,000 bail.