Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-27
LOCAL NEWS.
A Court Scene.

I Blanche Douglass Arrest Bench Warrant-Brought Down to the Superb or Court-BounJ1 Over and Ren,ande,l to | Jail.
 Considerable interest was evinced to see Blanche Douglass yesterday when she ap, peared in the Superior Court room, having I been arrested on bench warrant on charge ] of murder, and there was crowd of faces gazing at her and noting everything notice able in her demeanor dress and movements Hangers outside the building peered anx- iously at every carriage passing in hopes not to get ''left' in catching glimpse of this now quite celebrated person. Sheriff Tucker brought her from the jail in horse car, walking to the court house with her from the cars ard arriving just before 10 o'clock. In the court room she sat demurely near the sheriff's desk, and quietly surveyed the scene before her. She was dressed in plain blue flannel suit and wide black hat with large gray ostrich feather. It was faced with black silk A polka dot veil was drawn half way over her face. Around her neck was Span ish lace scarf held together. by pretty fan shaped pin. On her hands were white lace ILLUS duu Su0 CdfTlSd u ClTculAE over Her arm.
 Court having opened State Attorney Doc little addressing Judge Culver, stated to the court the arrest of Blanche Douglass on 8 complaint filed by the State attorney charg- ing her with the murder of Jennie Cramer He moved that mittimus issue that she be committed to jail.
 
 immediately Jailer Stevens and the Douglass woman got up and left the room. They went down to the sheriff's office till the jail horse and carriage that had brought MT. Stevens to the court house were got ready, when Mir Stevens and his prisoner drove back to the prison Assistant Clerk Anketell was meanwhile at work in the court room making out the jail mittimus for the accused.
 The information filed against Blanche, the bench warrant upon which she was arrested and the sheriffs return, are herewith given !:
 SUPERIOR COURT,
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT, l Q.
 NEW HAVEN COUNTY. %
 October Criminal Term, 1881. Hilton F. Doolttle attorney to the State of Conneo lieut. for the County of New Haven, now here in transient person, confined in the New Haven county jail, wickedIy contriving and intend of her malice aforethought to kill and murder on the fifth day of August, 1881, at the town of
 
 her malice aforethought and feloniously quan- tity of a certain deadly poison commonly called arsenic did give and administer to the said Jen- nie Cramer, with intent that she should take and swallow down the same into her body tshe, the said Blanche, then and there well knowing the same to be deadly poison), and that said arsenic given and administered unto her the said Jennie Cramer, by the said Blanche Douglass, the said Jennie Cramer did then and there take aud swallow down into her body by reason and by means of which taking and swallowing down the said arsenic into her body as aforesaid the said Jennie Cramer became and was mortaly sick and distempered in her body of which mortal sickness and diSemper the said Jennie did languish and languishing did live for the of six hours and on the sixth day of August, 1884, at said town, the said Jennie Cramer, of the poison taken and swallowed into her body and by the sickness and distemper occasioned thereby, did die and the attorney aforesaid upon his oath of office says that the said Blanche Douglass in the man. ner and aforesaid, felon1ousy, w1fully and of her malice afrethought premeditatedly did kill and murder the said Jennie Cramer, against the peace and contrary to the statute in such case made and provided; whereupon the attorney prays the advice of this honorable court in the premises.
 TILToN k. DooLIrTLE, Attorney
 The prisoner was remanded to jail to await trial with the Malleys. The perjury case against her before Justice Booth to-day will no doubt be nolled. MT. Dow, counsel for Blanche Douglass, expressed no surprise, having expected the proceeding. Blanche Douglass was not surprised, as she had been told that this would be the course taken with her and having made up her mind that she must remain in prison till the conclusion of the Malley. case. She reasserts emphati- cally her innocence of all knowledge of how Jennie Cramer came to her death and that she has no fear of the result. Unless the plan is ordered changed the sheriff said Blanche would be kept in one of the poor debtors y rooms in jail, secluded from visit