The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-12
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rCorrcsnondcucc Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
STANTON, April IL. 1888.
Some excitement was OccaSIOncd here
Yesterday by the report that "another poi
soning ease had occurred Your corrc-
spondcnt found on inquiry that Mr.. VIII
liam l.. Meredith, the clerk at :. 7. Thorn
hurg's livery stable. and Miss Maria HUI
Vcv. member Of his family. had been pol
Soncd the night before, and had very mar
row cscapc. though il seems that the tcnd-
iSh aitcnp, had been made upon the life Of
Mr.. Meredith daughter Florence, school
girl seventeen or eighteen years OF age.
Mr.. Meredith the evening before got
AuoX OF FRENCH CANDY
out Of the post-otlicc wrapped mp in piece
torn from stanton local paper and adj
dressed in a female hand 10 Miss Florence
Meredith. and mailed i'm stanton. When
he cave 10 10 hts daughter she opened the
box and handed Il around among the iami-
IL. Putting piece 81 the candy in her
mouth and finding e. vcrv bitter, she spit
IL on: Her father took three soft pieces
and dropped them In his pocket; llile
child ate some. IS did Miss llulNey. Mt.
Meredith not long after
ATE TWO or TIE DROPS
he had i'm his pocket. noticing at the time
that they were very bitter. and in about
twenty minutes was strangely affected with
contractioas Of thc limbs and confusion on
the brain. which increased 20 violent pains
i'm his muscles, dCprivlng him oi the Use OF
his limbs. The child and daughter were
not affected. but Mis-, Hulyey
SrrgyEED INTENSELY.
and had partial commissions. Mr.. Meredith
took mustard and water freely. and had it
administered o. Miss ilulycy also. and they
yOmitcd several times. When Or. +. l..
Henkle arrived he was convinced that 1t
was q case of poisoning, and administered
em,ticS of sulphate OF zinc. and during
the night the patients were relieved. Mt.
Meredith SsvS he is sure he could not have
lived through the night. such was ms ago
nv. had he not yomted so freely.
In the morning Dr. Hcukle
EXAMINED THF CANDY
closely. and found that several Of the soft
gum-drops bad been partially opened and
q white powder put into them. He knock
ed this powder ont OF one drop, and pro-
curing a kitten injected il underneath The
animals SKIN. In short time the cat was
thrown into commissions and died in forty
five minutes. From the appearance OF the
powder and t,'r symptoms 1t produced the
physician i satisfied that
STEYCuNIA WAS USED.
The matter was al once reported to the
Commonwealth Attorney. and ne, with
the assistance of several police officers, have
been ever since quietly investigating the
affair. and are now pretty well satisfied that
the candy was purchased at two different
stores i'm the city. and think that they will
be able very soon to fix the crime upon the
party who is suspected; in which ease
their action win be prompt and decisive.
Eater.
A YOUNG WOMAN ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH
THE CRINE-rHE PROCEEDINGS AT TIE PRE-
IIMINARY ENAMINAIIoN-THE INTENDED
VICTIM.
Especial telegram % the Dispatch.
SrAUSroN. VA. April 1.-THE result OF
the investigation by the police into the
poisoned-candv affair wa, the arrest of a
Miss Maggie Grcaver. of tins town, young
woman who lives with her mother on
Sears Hill. She was known to entertain Bit
ter cnmltv against Miss Florence Mere
dith on account OF what is thought to
be some uniounded iealousleS. 1t was
found by the police that she had bought
candy al two places on Main Street-Tay-
lor's and which corrc~ponded eN-
cactlv with the poisoned candy. She got
some Of the candy Saturday and some Mon
dav. There was a little fancy valentine in
the box of candy. which had the ,ale-mark
Of b. 7. Hughes, druggist, upon ii, as
recognized by Mr. Hughes, who had sold
some valentine, TO Greayer, but he cannot
say positively that he sold that one to her.
There were other circumstances that
seemed to make out q case against Maggie
Greayer. and she was arrested to-day at her
mothers house and taken to Jail. Among
her things several suspicious " finds - were
made by the officers one Of which was an
envelope addressed % Miss Florence Mere
dith in the same handwriting as that in
which the address on the candy package
was written.
Theaccu,cd VIZ, brought for preliminary
trial before Justice Pcarman at p. VI. TO-
dav. but represented that she had not yet
secured counsel and the case was adjourned
until p. NJ. tomorrow. She applied
through Mr.. William +. Craig for bail, but
the Justice decided that the gravity Of the
charge was such that bail could not be
taken. and the accused was thereupon re-
manded 20 prison.
The accused i, a rather good-lookin2
blonde and her dcmeanor in court (where
by the way. this wa, not her first appear
ance.) was decidedly cool and collected, a
though she felt herself master Of the situa
ton.
The Young girl upon whom the diaboli
cal attempt had been made was also presen
as witness. She is modest-appearinl
young lady, with quiet, distracted look
She is said TO DE quite intellectual and {
hard student. even 10 the extent OF &c
centricitv. While waiting to be called, fo
nearly an hour a crowd was around he
and hundred eyes upon her, but Their
She sat with her scho0l-hOOks in her lap
pencil, paper, and dictionary, intent upoI
writing French exercise, and apparently
oblyious OF everything around her.
Dragged from a Garret by Masked