Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18
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" Every Evenings" Correspondent Find
Two witnesses Who Can Identity Hin


Two Witnesses Who Can Identity Him.
LAUREL, DEI., Aug. G-Gestcrday was
spent by your correspondent i'll II house to
house canvass of the road supposed tohaye
been travelled on the night Of August It'll
by William Evans. whom all now believe
TO have put the arsenic in the well on John
Rosser's farm. Nearly every family
along the route was interviewed. Evans
seems 10 have left the railroad at Bridge,
willie and first stopped at the house of Mrs.
Mary Brown, where he got n drink of
water.
Next he stopped al Mrs. J.. G. Coates
farm and applied for farm work but being
recognized Mrs Coates would not employ
him because of his bad record when lie
was u resident here, From Mrs, Coates
no reliable trace of him can he made until
lie reached the farm of Frank Allen, near
oak Grove and inquired his way Both
Mrs. Coates and Mrs. Brown are positive
Of his identity. Everyone interviewed
spoke well OF the Rossers and said Evans
bore !, most unsayory reputation.
EVANS HISTORY
| IS full of duStardly actions None OF bis
old neighbors have a good opinion Of
| him ;mdthey say that he never amounted
| to nuCh.n There was continual strife in
his family and his home was a "hell OH
earth" In lSsS he was arrested for
| hrutally beating his wife and lodged in
| Caroline county jail and when he had
| completed his term there almost his tirstaGt
| was To again terrori2t his wife and child
rem, driving them from the house NJ
/ pistols point Mrs. Evans procured his
| arrest again on 4 peace writ and failing to
! find bpndsmcn lie was lodged III Sussex
county jail for several months.
4 When liberated lie again %tartcd for his
| home 10 resume his reign of terror, but
| was met al Cannons with the information
that cunstablCs Of Caroline county had
| seven writs for larceny against him and
ton aud took up his abode 1T
Tacony Ia. His subsequent history
was published in part in Yesterdays
EVERY FvEN1NG. All these circumstances
| and the inelticiency Of the deputy coroner
cause. citizens to appeal 10 the attorney
general and on SUNDAY Branch II Giles
visited ~eaford and, after an investigation
| Of the case came to the conclusion that
to-day's jury would demand Evans
arrest and with this belief returned to Will
mngtulI and put the legal machinery at
work 10 effect Evans capture. Adyiccs last
evening state thut he now has the suspect
in Il cell i'll that city awaiting the finding
OF the jury.
Dissatisfaction at the result and lack If
thorough investigation at last weeks in
quest caused the deputy coroner to issue
an order for 4 new inquest yesterday In
preparation for this the body of Raymond
ltusser was eXhnmed ami post-mortem
examination Of the heart, lungs and
stomach made by Drs. W. +. iIancs
ard Il. Shipley aud at o'clock r. M
the Jury assembled to hear and consider
the cydtnGe 50 obtained. Much time WAS
spent in turmaitiGs intended 10 he I'M
pressivc, hut all was finally ready, and w
H. Eaincs testified; Internal organs
showed evidence Of poisoning, which, ii
his opinion, caused death"
Il. Shlpley corroburated the evident
presence Of poison, but added death mas
have resulted from other causes only
definitely 10 be determined by chemica
! analysis OF the stomach"
The doctors evidently We're not chemist
enough! to make such IN examination an,
none has yet been made The boys heart
, lungs and stomach We're submitted to til,
jury and gazed upon with awe and wonder
but gave to them no idea whether dcatl
: was from poisoning ar otherwise.
Much of the testimony had no bcarin,
on the case. For example, one man "liney
, the Rosscrs has been at the house an,