The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-01
Hillary Page i'm Jersey.

p,pNs RtrRNED AND LIVE STOCK POISONED BY
A NuscpEANT WHOSE MOTIVE Is UNfATH0M-
ABLE.
For nearly three years Cooper Brown
ing. a thrifty young farmer and dairyman,
living on the Ellisburg turnpike. near FL
lisburg, New Jersey, has been the victim
of series of outrageS, the perpetrator or
perpetrators OF which he has been unable
to discover. His barns have been burned
and his cattle wilfully poisoned. Liberal
rewards have been offered to no purpose.
Neighbors have done everything in their
power without avail to ferret out MIR.
Browning's enemy. just now the perse-
cuted farmer is being flooded with COM
munications from all parts of the country
offering for a money consideration to dis
cover the author of the outrages. Nine
tenths of the writers are spiritual me-
diums, astrologers, and other charatans OF
the same order. They offer to do the most
wonderful things.
II was on the night Of December Is,
1879, that the work OF persecution begun.
A spacious barn. filed with farming uten-
sis. a lot OF unthreshed wheat. and sixty
tons OF hay, was fired some time after mid
night and burnt to the ground. Twenty
five valuable cows-fifteen OF them being
thoroughbred Attorneys and Guernseys-
persisted in the flames. Mr.. Browning
was then the proprietor OF remunerative
milk route through Camden county, and
the loss crippled him severely, not only in
loss OF custom, but for want OF ready
money, as the insurance company re-
fused to make good the loss on techni-
cal bubble. He set to work to retrieve
however, and removed to new farm about
five hundred yards north OF the old
one, in less than nine months Browning
began to get on his feet again. On the
Goth OF November, 1880, not quite year
from the time his barn burned, two Al
derney cows, grazing in a field near the
house, were observed by Farmland TO be
rolling on the ground in great agony. Ten
minutes later both animals were dead. Be
fore Mr.. Browning could recover from his
surprise at the sudden and unexpected
loss, five more cows had died. This rapid
fatality among animals known to be per-
fectly healthy led to an examination
OF the field where they had been
feeding. No less than ten pounds OF
Paris green were found scattered broad
cast over the pasture. 1t was then
that Mr.. Brewing began TO realize that he
was the victim of hidden enemy, and
this belief was substantiated in October,
1881, when seven more cows and thirty
five hogs were poisoned to death with
arsenic. The farm-hands had gone to bed
about 10 O'Clock, and were up before 3 in
the morning, and it was between these
hours that the poison was placed IN the feed
chest, the fceding-trough, and the trough
of the pig-pen. One meal was enough to
kill the animals very quickly, and an eX-
animation revealed the presence OF Mt least
twelve pounds OF white arsenic. To make
sure, Mir. Browning had both poisOns
analyzed by Dr.. Brown, OF Camden. Gus
toners began to dcmur about buying milk
from a dairy-farm where the COWS were
| in such danger, and the unfortunate
farmer began to lose trade rapidly. Ills
| total loss in money on the barns and live
stock amounted to more than $1,000. SYM
pathizing friends and neighbors did every
thing in their power to help him, and he is
prosperous again, and awaiting the next at
tack, which, according to the periods inter
yening between the others, will take place
in September. In order to take time by the
forelock, however, and il possible brighten
his enemy before another outrage Is COM
mitted. Mr.. Browning yesterday made
public the following promise OF reward:
q" 500 reward will be paid for the arrest
and conviction OF the rarty who poisoned
my cattle October 13, lSSl.-M. G. Brown.
ing, Ellisburg, Camden county, n. j."