The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-03-24
KENTUCKY PRISONERS.
Iynohors LookIsg for Old Man wiExln-
ton Who Instigatsd the Criue.

ton Who Instigated the CriTe.
MOUNT STERLING, KY, March 49,
The whole miserable story of as dia-
bolical crime as was ever committed
In Kentucky, has just been .extorted
from the aged mother of the perpetra-
tors. On Thursday morning. March 8,
William Ferguson, B. @. Watts and q
Miss Boyd were mysteriously poisoned,
and Ferguson and Watts died. Inves.
tigation showed arsenic In large guam
titles In the stomachs of the two men,
and also in the coffee-pot from which
they were served. How 1t got there no
one knew.
1t was known that William Wiggin-
ton had quarreled with Watts. Slight
suspicious were aroused, and Wiggin-
ton and his two sons, Frank and Char,
ley, were arrested. They had their ex-
amining trial on Saturday last, and the
evidence appeared strong enough to
hold the boys, but the old man was dis.
missed. The people believed that the
Wiggintons were guilty, and on Satur-
day night mob went TO their home to
investigate. Old Wigginton had dis
appeared, but the wife and mother was
found. She refused to say anything un-
til rope was placed around her neck,
and size was Threatened with death.
Then she told all she knew Of the dread
full story.
Mrs. Wigginton said that Charley
Wigginton came from William Fergu-
sons house on Wednesday evening
very mad at Watts because he would
not give him some money, and that
Charley said he would llx him. Char
ley had u small package which he
showed to the old man, and said to
him: This is the stuff to do 1t with" /"
The old man told Charley to out the
poison in the coffee-pot, and that he
did not care il he burned the house.
Frank and Charley started for Fergu-
sons house. They came back about l
or 2 o'clock; said that they had been to
Ferguson's and put the stuff in the cof-
fee-pot. The old man said that was
right: The old man told them that
they had best leave the country, and
they were fixing to do so when ar
rested.
When Charley was teld that the old
woman had made clean confession he
stoutly denied everything till she was
brought to the jail in his presence.
Then he finally made the same confess
sion as she had made, and said that the
old man had given him ten cents and
told him to buy the poison. Men are
securing the country for the old man,
and if he Is found he, Charley, Frank
and probably the woman will be dis
posed of summarily.
Tho City of Blood.
New ORLEANS, March lS.-At IL
O'Clock tonight Capt. Arthur Dunn, q
prominent politician and we'll known
attorney of this city, became involved in
a quarrel with Frank Waters, an ex-
journalist and well known character
about town, and a shooting scrape re-
suited, terminating in the killing of
Waters and the serious wounding of
Dunn.
Capt. Dunn was one of the attorneys
employed by the state in the recent trial
of the Italians. The trouble tonight be-
gan in the carly part of the evening.
Waters had been drinking i'll saloon,
and during the course of his remarks
stigmatlzed the killing Of the Italians at
the parish prison as an ourage on the
community, and expressed himself
as satisfied that all those men who parti-
cipated in the killing would come to an
untimely end. Dunn met him shortly
afterwards and a dispute took place,
during the progress of which Dunn
referred to Waters as muderer, he
having killed Joseph Banter here in
1887. The dispute grew warmer, and
Dunn pulled his revolver and shot
Waters in the check and in the mouth.
The last bullet ranged upward and pene-
trated the brain.
Waters returned the fire of his antaso-
nlst ana wounded Dnnn twice i'm the
left leg and again in the right side of his
chest, near the nipple. Waters die d al
most instantly. Dunn was taken to The
hospital, where he lies in precarious
condition.