Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-04-13
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to believe that it was jealousy on the part
!, of the prisoner that made her bring those
reports. Miss Meredith testified that she
had not spoken to her father, The Is her
step-father), for year, on account of his
having believed some OF those reports.
MRS. W. L. MEREDITH
testified to her husband having brought
the candy home. She eat one piece of the
candy but it did not make her sick, nor
was there nything peculiar about it, Miss
Hulvey's boy eat some and did not get
sick.
MISS MARIA HULvEY
testified to eating two pieces of the candy
and being violently ill, drank sweet milk
as an antidote.
| DIR. F. S. HENKEL
testified to being called in to tie house Of
Mr. Meredith, Monday night. Saw Miss
Hu!vey first; thought at first she was suf
fering from emetic-ipecac and mustard.
Five minutes after, saw Mr.. Meredith
who had violent spasms of the body.
saw the candy which the young lady said
tasted intensely bitter. I brought the
candy given ma to my Office. 1 took about
tenth of d grain of the white powder
which came from two pieces of the candy
aud making solution Of it injected it un-
/ der the skin Of cat The cat died in
I.three-quaftcrs of an hour in coHvulsions
made the experiment in the presence of
DR.. Ful'Z and Miss Meredith. I was I'M
pressed with the belief that the powder
| was strychnine. DR.. Fultz also thought
So Witness told the family that he
thought the poisoning was done by strych-
nine. Meredith $ symptoms were the char
acteris.cs Of that poison. had the box
of candy under lock and key until made
i the cat experiment.
THE VALENTINE.
B. F. Hughes. druggist, testified that
! the cost-mark on the valentine was his
store mark, and it came from there. Had
sold some valentines to Miss Greaver on
two or three occasions before Valentines
day. Had several valentines of the kind
| produced in court; might have sold to any
| person; could not say who bought it.
THE CANDY.
James E. Taylor, confectioner. testified
that the prisoner bought of pound of
candy from him last Friday. Could not
| say that shown was the candy he sold her.
She had not bought from him as large a
quantity as that shown in court. She is
not frequent purchaser. and has not
bought any lately till Friday.
Robert Ayres, sworn sold prisoner or
10 CENTS worth of candy Monday. Very
few Of the pieces shown are kept in my
store. do not keep the kind of mixed
candy shown. keep gum drops like those.
Cannot identify the candy as sold to her.
FATAL ENVELOPE PRODUCED.
VIM. M. Simpson, Police officer, went
| with officer Hounihan and Constable
Hutcheson to prisoners home on Wednes-
day at 10 A, M.-the house of her mother
Mrs. Fuller. When read the warrant to
Mrs. Fuller, when I came to that part
about the candy Mrs. L. exclaimed "why
there's been no candy in the house, In
prisoners trunk found an envelope with
Miss Florence Meredlth's name on it.
Prisoner hesitatingly admitted that it
was in her own handwriting envelope
shown and identified, the direction on the
box of poisoned candy and the address on
this envelope are in the same handwrit-
! lng.l Prisoner denied positively having
| bought any candy since Mr.. Fuller's death
| except the evening before TUESDAY even
4 ,ngj when she bought a stick from Mr..
Haines' store, (The fact was here shown
that Mr.. Fuller died two weeks ago J
Some mixed candy was also found in
her house. Two envelopes addressed to
other parties were shown to establish her
handwriting. Also communication to
| the ''Police Gazette.''
Geo. A. Hutcheson, Constable, was viii
Simpson and confirmed his evidence.
AT THE PosToFFIcE. IN
F. S. Haines, Deputy Clerk at the Post
| Office, on Monday found the box addressed
to Miss Florence Meredith. 1t was put In
the office through the newspaper hole, and
was put in after 2. 2. M. Monday.
MISS ST. CLAIR
| testified that she saw the prisoner going
into the Postofice about O'Clock Monday
! with package and come out without the
| package. Before getting to Postofice
prisoner spoke to boy who replied "No
ma am, L can't do it" and prisoner passed
on into the Postoffice. After leaving Post
office prisoner went down town.
THE FATAL HAND WRITING ON THE EN-
| YELOPE AND BOX ADDRESS.
Thos. A. Bledsoe, Cashier Of the Ma
tional Valley Bank, was called to express
his opinion on the similarity of the ''Flor-
ence Meredith" on the box address to
that on thu Envelope found in prisoner g
trunk aud which last she admitted that she
wrote. Mr.. Bledsoe testified that, in his
opinion, both we're in the same hand
writing.
| VILE POSTAL CARD
found in prisoners trunk, addressed to a
lady in the city, was thought by witness to
be very similar in handwriting to the ad-
| dress on the poisoned box.
| DR.. T. W. Shelton, sworn. testified that
| the prisoner came to his office, uptown
| from the Postof1ice, soon after z. M, for
| him to see her mother. She had a bundle
in her hand-he thought of yellow paper.
| 1t was not like the poisoned candy box
| now shown him in Court
THE MOTHER OF THE PRISONER,
Mrs. Fuller. was sworn. Witness testlfi ed
that the handwriting on the Florence
Meredith envelope. found in her daugh-
ter's trunk and admitted by her as her
own writing, was the handwriting of her
| son, L. B. Greaver. Witness said her
daughter was at home before o'clock
Monday afternoon. She had in her hand
when she went on the street little fiat
| hat-ahnnt the siza of tha candy hoy ax.