The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-07
HIS WIFE'S CORPSE DUG UP.
DIR. BUoHANAN A PRISONER ON sUs-
PICIoN THAT He POISONED HER.

Not Die OF Apopiexy Ms DR.. Mcintyre
and Dr. Watson Said, Or of Urrmia-
what sho Did Die Of Not Estabii.h.d-
The Testimony That LED TO the Inquiry.
Dr. Robert W. Buchanan OF 267 West Eleventh
street was arrested yesterday afternoon upon
q bench warrant upon the charge OF killing
his vito. Annie b. Buchanan. by tho adminis-
tration OF poison. Tho warrant was issued by
Judge MARITIME. In tho General Sessions. upon
tho affidavit upon Information and belief OF
District Attorney Nicoll. Dr. Buchanan was
taken to the General Sessions building. before
Judge MARITIME. and remandcd to Police Head
quarters in the custody OF detectives.
Mrs. Buchanan died April 23 at PCT West
Eleventh street. house purchased. 1t is UNI
dcrstood. with money given to DR.. Buchanan
by her after thoir marriage. She was attended
by Drs. Henry 7. Watson. then Of 2S4 West
Fourth street. and Il. c. Mcintyre of 22l West
Fourth street. They were not called In until
the day preceding her death. Mrs. Childs. q
professional nurse. was employed to nurse
Mrs. Buchanan only fow hours before her
death. Tho physicians said that Mrs. Buchan-
ans death was due to cerebral hemorrhage.
and DR.. Watson signed u certificate to that OF
feet. About q month after Mrs. Buchanan's
death DR.. buchanan went to Halifax. n. T.. aud
IeHaTEleu HlS ulNOrCeu WHO. Wiioiu ho iiou INV
seen. so far as is known. for about two years
before his second marriage 1t is said. how
ever. that no correspondent with her. and oc-
casionally sent her money.
Tho woman who died on April % had .
checkered career She was native Of
Easton. Pa. Of respectable parentage. She
became the wife of q Baptist minister named
Braden. He left her In poverty. and. after
several years Of widowhood. she married
Henry Kicker. n shoemaker. They lived in
Walnut street, Easton. Rickcr was shiitless
and dissipated. Their house gained an ILL
repute. and was raided by the police. and
Kicker and his wife moved to Newark. Mrs.
Kicker kept house OF ill-fame in Newark until
II was broken up by the police. Then she sent
Kicker back to Easton. ostonsibly to hire q
house for her. He did not hire house. and
she never joined him in Easton. She never
lived with Kicker again. He had become a
cripple and unable to care for himself and one
OF his brothers gave him o homo until his
death.
Meanwhile Mrs. Rlckor was keeping house
Of III fame in Newark. It is said that sho mar
ried man named Smith, though che knew
that her husband. Kicker. was living. In fact.
when she married DR.. buchanan on or about
Nov. %. 1890. Kicker was still alive. Ho
died on April s, 1891. In Newark she
called herself Mrs AMMO B. Suther-
land and said that she was widow. She was
generally known. however. to the frequentcrs
q her which yns e.terlE at "a Haley
she kept in Halsey street was not disturbed by
came BY the name Of Sutherland.
home IL Vest Eleventh street win her:
James NJ. Smith OF Newark. tho is said to have
pssed hasband MSi Mrs S%a ar called upon
q That h s S sHS 6ss
suesanan Mrs N satheyapd had maze ~ viii il
Inquiry DO made to learn II Mrs; buchanan had
aa 0 Smith, GfH nay pa It's sy 1
into the form Of an affidavit: This afIldayit the
Coroner submitted to District Attorney Nicoll.
Mr.. Nieoll began formal inquiry. First, no
Watson ' and ii Mcns? 'sS sses 70 phys
sep:. b Tf o thu ss tSs
Of Mrs, Buchanan's symptoms indicated that
che DID nc not die iroT Spit%R
any other poison, but from cerebral hem-
orrhage. as they had certified in tho death
:, Nj: NiSoll than heard the statement Of Will
formed. before Doria made his statement. that
Dr.. buchanan. because. as alleged. OF previous
relations between DR.. Buchanan and Doria' 3
aS pSr no sScs Ss h that at ri Mr! sn4
lands house IN Newark. and had married her
for her money. SAYING to p9ria. Il have got o
woman has lots Of money. and It don't cost me
cent to go there. She lis stuck on me. and
On NJ the e." evening OF Nov. 25. three nights be-
fore the wedding. he. DORM. and Richard w.
tho viii she bequeathed ali that she might die
possessed Of to her husband. 4 she should
her time 81 DE-
professional services She appointed DIR. Blu
chanan one OF the two executors Of her will:
Mrs Buchanan came to this city to live In the
house in West Eleventh street
81 Dr. IF
Of her. and told Doria verbally several months
ago that DR.. Buchanan was scoundrel. who
Ss sssntd "fss mS1s' May "
and reopen her old house In Halsey street
that she did not care about that. and that If he
cation. Doria told DR.. Buchanan what Mrs
Buchanan had said. DR.. buchanan said. an
house VIII not b %nsraSei b S" her y in my my
Professional and social standing
Three days after Mrs. Buchanans funeral
he. Doria. was in bed in his home In Newark.
when no was rouscd By two culored men. who
told him that Dr. buchanan was at the Conti-
rental Hotel. In Ncwnrk. and wanted to see
him., He. Doria. had read OF Mrs Ruchanan's
daath In the newspapers. When no saw Dr.
Buchanan; he noticed that DR.. buchanan mp
Peqred TO have been drinking heavily. Ho said
to DR., Buchanan: " am surprised at you. You
have treated hTr very lady Dr., Buchanan
sorry, Poor woman" DoriH said that he was was
Surprised that Dr. buchanan had not notified
him 81 his wtie's inoSs or az the
funeral He then asked what was thu
cause OF Mrs Buchanans Death Dir Eurbnnnn
ealu tnat ne really did not know ~ he had not
prescribed Tor his wife. She drank Two cmns
OF cofee on the morning Of April - ana
whatever. fell upon tho floor in n III ~
l}uchanan put her on tho bod and caiied In
Drs: Watson and Mcintyre. N"'u 4"
After Smiths charges We're made ruhlio that
Dr. Buchanan had poisoned Mrs. Buchnnmmm'
Doria met DR.. Buchanan and said IT, him. " I
suppose they will dig her mp" Dr. lhIrh',o =
said: am afraid they will, II they do ''l''; ann
goner Thcy will lind something more, YIN
know she had the morphine ha6it. Iwish I
had cremated tho old thing. and that w1uld
have settled tho matter" Ncxt DR. Buchnmnn
said that his wife had died from an Oy.rI,'.n
of morDhine sell -ulmi storel '''0U