Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18

charged against nm, lie also expressed
his perfect willingness to 60 to Delaware
and give an account of himself. When
asked to explain his whereabouts on the
night OF Thursday, August ith, however,
Evans told story which he is likely to
have considerable trouble to substantiate,
particularly as 1t does not agree with other
accounts of his movements. lie said II
left home on Thursday morning knowing
that we would have no work on that day,
and started for Frankford To look at tile
RUNS Of the Jayne chemical works, which
were burned on the previous day. While
there decided to visit Lincoln Park and
in the afternoon took a boat for that
place"
Then what made you say that you had
been on fishing trip y asked his ques-
TONER.
We'll, did go fishing; | had a lire in
my pocket and when ! got to Lincoln
Park went along the shore and found a
place to fish
ALI NIGHT AT LINCOLN PARK.
Continuing. he said II stayed until
night and missed the last boat t. The city.
Then laid down in some bushes and re-
manned until morning, when | started for
home. spent some time in Philadelphia
and arrived at facony late in the after
noun.h
Evans stated that he took the trip en-.
tircly alone, and when the Importance of
his being able to produce some one who
saw him there was impressed upon him,
he said he had not seen a single person he
knew
"Why did Won request Mrs Mari to say
nothing about your absence@'
We'll, thought enough had been pub.
lishcd about me, and | did not want any
more said"
EVANS SISTERS IMPORTANT DENIAL.
One of the statements made by Evans in
| accounting for his absence from faGOny
on August ith was that lie had come 10
| this city to visit his sister, Mrs. Rachel
| Staddcn, who resides at No his fasker
! street. Mrs. Staddon was seen last evening
and absolutely denied that he had visited
her on that Thursday. She said that She
| had not seen her brother for some time;
| that he had called to see her about three
weeks but that she was at Cape May and
consequently did not see him. She denied
/ the statements made that the relations be
tween herself and brother were not cor.
dial. She says She advised against the
marriage at the time because the Rosser
family was not t. her liking, and her
| brother appeared to regret the step he was
about to take. but said that he had prom
| ised to marry Miss RUsSer and would full
fill his promise.
Her brother, Mrs. Staddon said, had
| always been an honest, hard working
man, who tried to save every penny 50 as
to provide comfortably for his family, and
that She frequently demonstrated with him
for depriying himself Of all the comforts
Of life while the wife was sluandcring
them. As to his having another wife in
England She was positive that such was
not the case.
Another misstatement Of Evans, cor
reeted by the sister, MAS as to his birth
place. Evans stated that he was born and
raised in kensingtOn, while Mrs Stadduu
says he first saw the light in Monmouth
Shire, England
4 CLlE Is THE CLOTHING.
Another statement by Mrs. Stadd0n,
which may have an important bearing on
the case aud go far to corroborate Farmer
Aliens description of the clothing worn
by the stranger seen by him on the night
ut August lth, is that She has been giving
to her brother the c;st-oH clothing Of her
husband, Thomas Saddon, and his brother
james Staddon. As both men are of Il
different mould from Evans, the peculiarly
Of the lit OF the coat. as described by
Farmer Allen, is i'll a measure accounted
for
STATEMENT OF DETECTIVE wITsIL.
Detective Witsil stated on Tuesday that
Detective McNey and he arrested Evans
about 5 O'Clock and took him at once III
the Tacuny police station, where they kept
him until 100 o'clock Meanwhile they
Went tn drug stores and to his boarding
house iii search of evidence against him
Mrs. Mari, the suspected mans landlndy
repeated most of the published stories re-
specting him. She said lie has been acting
very stlspiciously for several days lie
arose early Monday morning and moved
his trunk about q great deal and also de
: strnycd some papers. since suspicion was
) directed towards him his roommate has
refused TO sleep with him. Before the
story Of the poisoning became public sht
found in a vessel i'll his room something
which resemhled white powder, which
not knowing what it was, she threw ont
AT 40 O'clock Evans was taken 10 n trail
and conveyed to central station philadel
phia. The two detectives, by whom tn,
important arrest was made, returned L
this city Monday evening.