Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-11
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Poisoning Her Hmsband--Proof That
She Threatened TO Dose Him.
WEST CHESTER, Pa June 3.-Pretty
Mrs. Young, the accused husband MUIR
derer, was arrested this morning on a war
rant sworn ont by District Attorney Bling.
ham. she was given a hearing this after
noon, and as result is now lodged in a
prison cell awaiting trial.
The hearing WAS a long affair, but was
enivened by much testimony Of spicy
character. There were witnesses there
who swnre to facts which indicate clearly
that Mrs Young was not all that a wife
should be in point Of good character.
There were also witnesses present who
showed that Young was a person who
cursed eruolly at his ohildwife, refused,
to allow her to entertain company Of her
own age, and in fact, belied by his actions
III West Chester the good hllsbandly char
acter he gained later on at Trimbleville.
The hearing pointed ont plainly the line
OF prosecution and defence. The common
wealth will attempt to show by experts
that Young was POISONED, and that the
poison was administered by the wife.
However in the opinion of men of law,
| the chain of circumstances connecting her
with It's lamentably weak and fragment
tary, The motive they will try to furnish
for the deed is one with illicit love for y
basis.
The defence appears to he satisfied that
no motive for murder can be shown, and
will attempt to show that Y0Gng's death
was due % disease and the ignorance OF
the attending doctor, whom they claim is
no doctor ut all.
The hearing was before Justice Rupert
IN the grand Jury room. A crowd that
| packed the place to sutfocation was at
tracted. When Mrs. Young entered the
room she appeared pale, but in no manner
agitated. She smiled several times during
the hearing at the sallies Of her attorneys,
and at one fine laughed outright when
| Colonel HoGton declared soleinnly that
! the "countryman who alleged that he is a
doctor is the one that should be held for
I the murder, ii any one Colonel HootOn
| was assisted in the defence by Thomas W.
| Pierce.
Tie first witnesses called were Barclay
| Young. brother of the deceased, and
John Trimhle, near neighbor. These
| witnesses simply testified 70 the death
So far there are only two experts in the
case. The one which will attract the most
attention in this legal tilt is DIR. Jordan
the person who attended Young, He
| swore that he was graduate of the Phila-
dolphin University, which was known be-
fore it closed as l'aine's College. The doc
| tor wore a very much faded suit, very
much soiled shirt ana a very wilted paper
| collar. lie was called in to attend Young
on the Wednesday before death, and dur
ing that time prescribed according to his
| own testimony, doses of lobelia, aconite
gesemlnunl, ipecac and sulphate of iron,
lie said he had never seen a case of arsen-
ical poisoning, therefore he thought the
disease which affected Young was inAam-
nation OF the stomach. On Thursday
morning he came to the conclusion that
Young was suffering from poison, and did
all in his power to alleviate the patients
sufferingS.
Abram G.. Williams the undertaken who
embalmed the body, could not tell under
eross-eXamination whether the einbalm-
ing llud had run down into the stomach
or not while he was preparing the body,
and he did not know whether there was
arsenic in the fluid or not.
Dir. Formal who is the other expert in
the case kissed the Bible and told of the
manner in which the body had been ex-
humed and the viscera examined He
found traces of poison in the alimentary
canal, but as he had not completed his
investigation vet he could not say that it
was arsenic, II was irritant poison of a
metallic character. There We're any num-
Der Of metallic poisons, and he would not
be able for many days to state the particu-
lar kind Of poison that had killed Young.
He was certain Of one thing, and that was
that Young did not die of cholera morbus.
The testimony of Eugene Hughes,
clerk in the store of Oliver Martin at
Marshailton, was to the effect that Mrs
Young called at the store on May 9TH, pur-
chased box of rat poison, and had it
charged to her husbands account She
said the place was overrun with rats and
she could not endure them.
barclay Young was recalled to tell how
he went down to the house few days
after death and demanded the box of
poison. Mrs. Young took it from the top
OF acupboard, and he carried 1t back to
a
teaspoonful used out of the box.
The testimony of Mrs. Mary Ipard,
tine-looking old woman, who had lived
nelghbor TO the Goungs at West Chester,
was particularly spicy. "Mrs. Young
often came into my house" said she, land
remarked that she did not like her hus-
band, and she would give him slow dose
some time, always thought she was in
fun. One time Young broke his arm, and
his wife came in laughing and said she
wished IL had been his neck. I've heard
Young out in the back yard cursing his
wife at great rate. I've seen him do the
cooking and also saw him washing his
own clothes. Mrs Young was away
great deal, and this is what made him
curse 50 much, guess Mrs. Young com
planned that her husband was too old, and
said If she had not got into trouble-by
that she meant her baby trouble--she
never would have married the man.
Every, time she saw young man she
Mrs. Hannah Shaw, daughter Of Mrs.
lpard, corroborated her mothers testi-
mony. This closed the case and District
Attorney Bingham and Lawyer Bishop
made very brief and informal arguments
asking that the woman be held for trial.
Colonel Hooten said that DR.. Jordan was
the person who ought to be held if any
body.
Justice Rupert thought the case one that
called for Investigation, and therefore he
remanded Mrs, Young for trial. The
prisoner asked that her baby be brought
to her in prison, and this was consented
to by both sides, despite the fact that Bar
clay Young asked Tor the privilege Of talk
ing the child to mn aunt's. Habeas corpus
proceedings will be instituted in few
days.
MRS. FoUNG DRIES HER TEARS.
The Comely Little Widow Smiles Again--
Hardly Able to Prove Her a Murdcrcss.