The evening world., 1890-04-18
IS YOUNG NORMAN HER SOM
An Eva Hamilton Chapter in the
Life OF Mrs, Vandegrift,
A Burlington Lawyer Traces Up the
Alleged Poisoner's History.
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MouSr HOLLY. n. j.. Arril Is. Mrs.
Carrie Z. NandeRrift, the woman who Is
locked M in the Burlington County Jail
h .re, accused Of attempting TO murder her
son, Frank c. Norman, bv Administering
slow poison. has had remarkable and ad-
venturous career.
She gives her age as forty-five, but looks
At least ten years younger.
A few years ago she accused her husband
of iondness for Miss Van Solver. who lived
near them. She is said 20 have called upon
that young lady and q stormy scene eusucd,
Miss Van Solver being worsted.
1t was not long after this that she had Miss
Van Sewers brother Charles arrested on the
charge OF throwing vitriol into hei face,
marks OF which still disfRure her slightly.
She said he threw the acid because she had
caused her husband to discharge him, and
for what phe had said to his sister. .
At the same time she caused the arrest OF
young man named Martin Matlock, and
accused him Of robbng her. .,
Emory Davis, OF burlington, was retained
to defend the young men. and in the course
to look up the wouans antecedentH,
To All EvESISu Womb reporter he said:
could learn little or nothing of her early
life, except IL at her maiden name was Carrie
kinsley.
~ found out that she had been in Jail
several times, the first offense being conf
mitted in PhiladelphiR away back in the
sixties. What the crime was l have for
" Thomas A. Trickett, a wealthy IRON
but she jumped her bail and fled to New
York. She coolly returned to Philadelphia
in three weeks, whereupon Mr.. .Trickett sur
rendersd her.
" Her youth and beauty stood her in good
stead that time. and she got oil lightly.
She was arrested again In ls02. l
caught and has done time Tor larceny and
other oftenses in MoyamenSing Prison.
Then she turned up as leader Of the
Scott Street Methodist Church until her
-" She caused the arrest Of the gentlemen
who exposed her. seven in all, but finally
withdrew al complaints except one against
for defamation of character, but when the
cas- Q was called for trial she was in Jail.
Who was her first husband?" asked the
don't know. but she gets. the name
Norman from man who legally married
her. He was a well-to.do iron-moulder. He
died lingering death, 1t is said. OF con-
- / saw his sisters when was looking up
Mrs. Nandegritt's record in Philadelphia.
They are refined respectable women.
their sister;in-law but tell You one thing.
they don't believe that Frank Norman, the
boy she is now accused OF poisoning, is their
brothers child.
S"They told me that the woman disap-
peared for three days on one occasion, hay
ing no appearance OF coming motherhood,
and tnat when she returned she had baby
In her arms"
When she was arraigned in court yester-
day, before Judge Garrison, she pleaded
not guilty and was held in 90. 600 bail for
Her brother, John Kinsley. Of "l31 East
Dalton street, Philadelphia, was beside her.
and also Frank Norman, the Young man she
IL accused OF attempting to murder.
1t now appears that Berenice Kahn, her
with which the young man was dosed. WAS
the first to became suspicious, and that II
was she who first alarmed DR.. Hall. Bere-
nice 10 held a. q witness y
After Mrs. Vandegrift was locked up Mr.
Kin.ley and young Norman returned to
Burlington and locked the house there and
then went TO Phi. adelphla.
When Joseph Nandegrift died in 1887 his
son Peter-by his first wife asserted that
his father had been poisoned, and Druggist
John Butler intimat ted that he had cold
more croton oil to Mrs. VANDERBILT about
that time than he had sold before for year
to any one.
However, to save scandal, the yande.
grifts took no action in the matter. Since
then the widow has taken IT, religion and
was leader in the Broad Street Baptist
Church. aud also taught 4 sunday-school
The trial promises to be one Of the most
sensational which has ever taken place IN
New Jersey.