Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-16
Aamcaster f,ltelligellcer.
friday EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1890.
CarliSle'S Murder Case.

Carlisle's Murder Case.
1t has been noteworthy that while the
people and papers of Carlisle have re-
sented any outside interference in the
case of Mrs. Zell, under sentence OF
death for what seems to be scarcely a
half-proven charge of murder, they have
thus far failed to show circumstantially
that there was any material evidence to
Justify her conviction. For the third
time the case has been investigated by
foreign newspaper enterprise, and the re-
port of the Philadelphia Ielegraph's re-
porter confirms the conclusions of its
contemporaries, who decided that the
woman under sentence, if not entirely
innocent, was far from proven guilty. IL
seems that the dead woman had a little
property which she had given to man
named WynkoOp on condition that he
provide for her for the rest of her life.
Some time before her death she quarreled
with Wynkoop and manifested desire
to rescind the noncupative will she had
made in his favor, saying to Mrs. Reed,
who was sort of charm doctor, and who
sold spells and incantations for various
diseases, that she would see her lawyer
and get her property from Wynkoop and
give it to Mrs. Reed herself. The inter-
est that Mrs. Reed and WynkOop thus
had in her was shared by a third party,
her daughter, whom she had quarreled
with. When she died so suddenly the
daughter raised the suspicious of foul
play, and they pointed to Mrs Reed, who
had waited on her and had grabbed at
her effects, as guilty of her murder.
Then, the Telegraph reporter says,
Mrs. Reed speedily came to the front
with the assertion that Mrs. Zell, poor
neighbor of Mrs. kiehl, had for a long
time been in the habit of visiting the
house daily and taking to the old woman
beef-tea, gruels, ETC., and declared that
on the Wednesday preceding Mrs.
Kiehl's death, Mrs. Zell had brought
coffee to the house, of which both she
Mrs. Reed) and the old lady had par
taken. and which made them violently
sick. Eight respectable citizens of Car
Isle swOre that the character of Mrs.
Reed for truth and veracity was so bad
that they would not believe her under
oath yet on her testimony alone Mrs.
Zell was arrested, tried, convicted and
sentenced to he hung, g the idea being
suggested" that she had been in the
pay of Wynkoop to get the old lady
out of the way and enable him to
keep the money he had belonging to her
and the property of which he had given
her life possession. Not scintilla of evi.
dence was produced to connect Mrs. Eel
i'm any way with WynkOOp, nor was any
motive shown for the murderby her. On
the other hand, two months after Mrs,
Kiehl's death a package of arsenic was
found under bed upstairs, having writ.
ten OH it the name of Mrs. Reed, and two
cOffee-pots, having in them some grounds
were also discovered at the same time
which, being analyzed, were discovered tC
contain arsenic.
And it is upon the testimony of this
Reed woman, impeached for her veraci
ty, connected with the crime by circum-
stance and disclosed motive, that Mr..
Zell now rests in the shadow of the gal
lows it is even said that of $500 neceS
Sary to take her case to the supreme
court not penny could he raised in
Carlisle. If the people up there have a
different story to tell, it is time they
were getting it before the public.