The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-15
FOURTH edition
PoIsoNER EVANS FOUND.
Located at Tacony, Pa. hut Dlsap
peared Yesterday-IIe ProcInims Hi,
Innocence But is Proven u Liar.


peared Yesterday-IIe Proclnims HIS
Innocence But is Proven Liar.
The Philadelphia Record OF Sunday
located William Evans, suspected as
tho poisoner of the ROsser family near
Laurel, at No. 8I2 Tulip street, Tacopy,
part OF Philadelphia. He denied IN
toto having hud anything to do with
poisoning the Laurel well, though III
his tale OF woe is to be believed he was
not wanting for provocatlon. Evans
Is described as man OF no character
and having but few friends In Tacony,
and those who know him bost do not
speak in very iiattering manner of
him.
The Record referring 10 the case to-
day says; The departure from Tacony
yesterday afternoon OF William Evans
OF No. 6642 Tulip street. and his fall
ure TO return up to late hour last
evening Is very strong link in the
chain OF circumstantial evidence that
Is being woven around him.
The story, as told by Evans himself
on Saturday afternoon as to his great
love and care for his wife and children
aud the Efforts of his wifes friends to
poison her mind against him, has been
proven to be untrue In every particu-
lar. and 1t has been shown that his
treatment OF his wife and children was
brutal In the extreme.
| The strongest link in the chain of
suspicious circumstances, and which
will probably give Evans more trouble
to explain away was his whereabouts
on the night Of Thursday, August 4,
the time when the poison was placed
in the well OH tho Rosser premises.
Evans positively stated OIL Saturday
that he hau not been away from Ia
cony at any time during that week ex-
eept to take run into the city to see
his sister. and he was uncertain as to
whether that had been on Wednesday
or Thursday. His landlady. Mrs. John
Mawr. however, told a different story
yesterday afternoon. She said that
Evans went away on the morning Of
Thursday, August 4, and did not TO.
turn until the evening OF Friday,
August 5; that he was decidedly surIy
and irritable and complained OF being
very Tired. saying that he had been
out with q fishing party and had little
or no sleep on Thursday night.
Mrs. John Curtis, an intimate friend
OF the Evans family during their resi-
dence at Taeony, said that Evans
had never treated his family In a prop.
er manner and that when his wife went
to reside with her relatives he was
much inccnsed at them. On three
occasions his daughter Salie went to
Mrs. Curtis and implored her to write
to Mrs. Evans asking that she come
back to her husband. Twice she 10
fused, answering the daughter that
the mother was better of away from
him, On the third occasion Mrs. Cur
It's, thinking that the daughter was
personally very anxious for theil
mothers return, wrote to Mrs Evans
plainly stating tho case. In the an
swer which she received. the mother
positively refused to come back, say
ing that she had been SO brutallN
treated while shO lived with her hus
, band that she could never endure ii
again.
, Evans, she said, complained bitterl.
, OF the treatment received from Thu
Rosser family and blamed them for al
his trouble, 1t was Mrs. Curtis who
: advised Sallie Evans to leayo hom
/ and seek work elsewhere, which the
. girl did.
Mrs John Bailey, who lives near tn
' house on Penn street occupied b.
i Evans and his daughters and Mrs
Hartman, said she had frequentl
sheltered the girls when they wer
driven out by their fathers brutality
and that the eldest daughter. Matte
was married from htr house. Mis-
. Hartman, who lived in part Of tn
E house with Evans, said he frequentl
u said he would revenge himself on Oh
! whole Rosser fntnlly,and that he treat
l ed his daughters Shamefuliy.
1t ls now stated that the coroner
Y investigation into the causes of tn
death OF Raymond Rosser, the infaa
= son OF John RosSer at Oak Grove, VIII
I is believed to have died from tho ei
. fects OF ar5enical poison, has been nd
y journed until Friday next. The il
, vestigntlon has demonstrated the fac
y that u large deposit OF arsenic in I'll
Y we'll from which John Rossnrs famil
Il and stock were supplied with drinl
ing water, and also that the slcknes
OF his family was caused by the US
OF the water.
il, The physician who attended I'll
y family, DIR. W. L. llaines certified thi
y the child had died OF cholera infantuI
=, and the next day after it did 1t WI
~ buried in the cemetery of the BlooI
% cry Nj. l.. Church In Caroline count
~ Md. The fact OF the burial havir
~ been made on physician's cerutica
p and in another state caused the cor
ho nar to doubt his authority to have [
body eXhumed, and his investigates
began without u view OF the corpse
Is required by the law.