The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-27
The Result OF Professor Mallett's Analysis
Looked For in Two or Three Weeks.
Especial telegram to the Dlspatcb.l


lum. lost their lives is still mystery, not
withstanding the efforts 10 detect the au-
thor OF the crime, which have occupied for
the last two days the officials at the asylum
and the legal authorities OF Stanton.
Since the first account OF the affair which
telegraphed the Dispatch on Saturday night
many additional particulars have trans
PRED, which the uneasiness and commo-
ton among the officials and employees al
the asylum on Saturday made Il difficult to
gather with accuracy sooner.
I'D TO Il late hour last night there had
been no more deaths in addition to the five
at first reported. Mathew Vaughan, the
patient from Prince Edward county.
thought then to be dying, is still in coma
tose state, though the danger is considered
passed, and the other three sick men are
convalescent.
As was stated before,
THE POISON
was all contained in the medicine which
was sent out on three walters. and the doses
on these three walters, which were placed
in one stack or tier in the hall Just outside
the dispensary, were only fifteen in number
instead OF twenty, as at first stated.
THE THREE WATERS,
which afterwards proved to contain poi
soned medicine, had on them the following
medicine, with the name OF the patient
who was to take 1t written on tag on the
handle OF the mug:
THE FIRST WAITER,
for the centre and wing male buildings,
four mugs--one Of whiskey for Waller;
one OF oxide Of iron for Kurshner; one OF
same for wilkins; and one OF phosphate
Of iron, quinia, and str;chna for Adams.
This waiter killed wilkins and Adams.
THE SECOND WAITER,
for the second and third male wards, had
five mugs-one for Vaughan, with fluid ex-
tract OF hyosyamus, and two with whskey
and two with oxide or iron. This waiter
poisoned Vaughan.
THE THIRD AND MOST FATAL
waiter was for the fourth male ward, and
carried six mugs. Two had oxide OF iron
and bromide potassium for Hines and My
era. two Others had oxide Of iron for Sperry
and Holloman, one had whiskey for Loo
ney of Botetourt, and two had medicine for
Myers and Thomas. This weiter killed
sperry. Holloman, and Hines, and poison
ed two others who are conyalescent.
THE THEORY OF THE CRIME
advanced by DR.. Robert :. Hamilton, the
SUPERINTENDENT, and accepted as the most
reasonable by every one at the institution
with whom | have conversed, is that while
the medicine was sitting in the ease in tho
hall some one of the insane inmates got to
Il and sprinkled the poison over eight o.
the glasses. The hurry IN which this wa
done is thought to account for the umequa
doses. some OF the suflerers-as HollomaD
wilkins, and Administering received suci
a quantity that they died in from five t.
ten minutes, while Hines and Sperry lived
the one one hour and fifteen minutes. ant
the other two hours and fifteen minutes.
HARDLY THE DRUGGIST.
The Superintendent does not think
, likely that DR.. w. S. Butler, the asylum
, druggist, who mixed the medicine, coul
have accidentally put the poison with tn
: medicines, from the fact that the toni
which poisoned most Of the patients, an
, consisted OF tincture OF iron, cinnamo
water. simple syrup. and whskey, wa
. given to thirty or forty fem1le patient
with no bad effect, and their doses WEI
made up from the same jars OF medicine
,, those which occasioned the poisoning.
: ANOTHER THEORY.
c He also thinks it improbable that the a
PENDANTS could have designedly prepare
: the potion, as the medicine was distribute
= by four different attendants, and II 20
r soncd by them, there must have been CO
{ lusion between all OF them in the commi
L sion OF one OF the most hideous Grim
7 imaginable. DR.. Hamilton says he SUI
r nose, that he has enemies, and some
: them NAV have chosen this diabolic
:. method OF revenge, but he does not b
,s lieve it.
- II seems that the attempt to poison b
Al not been confined to this fatal occaslo
J. The man Windlc, Of Frederick county,
s. first reported sick, had been attacked WI
the same symptoms a day or two befol
A female patient, Sarah Z. McAleXand'
Of Botetourt, on Friday, while eating b
re- dinner, fell from her seat at The table, |
H. same symptoms following as the fatal cas-
ell She only recovered consciousness on y
re terday. but epileptic attacks here are
y, ~ frequent that nothing was thought OF th'
circumstances until subsequent ever
rs directed attention to them. This WON
had only eaten her soup, and no other p
of SON experienced any i'll effects from
ne soup, though all ate OF II.
.. AsAD CASE.
70 The case Of young Leonard wilkins
lis peculiarly distressing. lie was from Ia
ral vile, Northampton county had been
1t: the asylum only three months win mel'
o., cholla, and had recovered ana was apou'
~ return home. lie was just twenty-one
the odd of February, and was brig
3 nleasant fellow: n pet at the establishm
and great iavorite at home where ne
Ks the youngest in the family. Ills dot
W., Ma mother had written several times begg
20 noe the SUPERINTENDENT to send him home
Ter her, and, as he expressed it, she was aim
OF beside herself to see her baby boy o.
we more clothed and in his right mind.
lge '"''' o,sx
lch THE Ao'o,',
the was performed as careiu'iy anu eAp'
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