The Newtown bee., 1893-06-23

Charge of Poisoning her Husband-M of the Grand Jurors in Winsted.
 The hearing before the grand jurors, | in the Mannering poisoning case, which recently attracted so much attention | toward ROXbury, was held at the court house in Winsted at ? o'clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday. States attorney, Judge Huntington of Woodbury, with his associate, Lawyer D. A. Warner of l Salisbury, were in attendance for the state and Lawyer William H. Williams of Birmingham for Mrs Mannering. shortly before , o'clock, Mrs Manner ing in company with her daughter, Miss Lizzie Mannering, and her brother and his wife, MT and Mrs Wooden, were
 ESCORTED TO THE COURT HOUSE
 by the sheriff. Mrs Mannering's appear ance indicate that she is not in the best of health, although better than during the trial at ROXbury. Her cheeks are sallow, but her movements are quick and occasionally she showed signs nervous anxiety. She was escorted to one of the rear corners of the court house where she remained until ordered before the grand jurors. Promptly at o'clock the jurors began filling the seats assigned them in the court room, pre- paratory to
 TAKING THE OATH
 and receiving the charge from Judge Prentice. The jurors were: Jared 5. Foster, Lewis Catltn, Lyman R. Norton, Nathaniel B. Stevens, William 5. Hurl- burt, John W. Brooks, Walter $. Lewis, Edward Ward, Bartlett Owen, Daniel l.. Freeman, Herbert A. Church, Edwin W. Spur, Daniel H. Dean, David l.. Smith, Daniel B. Baldwin, Leverctt ". Tiffany, James F. Davidson, and George H. Alfred. They were intelligent ap- bearing gentlemen and looked capable of desiding the momentous question which was to come before them. Two juriors were missing and the sheriff spent some time filing the vacancies. It was nearly 2.3O when the oath was admin istered and
 JUDGE PRENTICE AROSE
 to deliver the charge. He told them that they were called Chere for the pur pose of determining whether there was probable cause for the crime for which the prisoner was accused. He pointed out how murder was a species of hOmi- eide. Criminal homicide was devided into two classes, man slaughter, the un- lawful killing of another without malice and murder, the unlawful killing of an- | other with malice. He referred to the laws of this state regarding the poison
 ing of another and explained their duty | in regard to their findings after eXamin- | ing of the witnesses. At 5.40 they filed into the room prepared for them and BEHIND CLOSED DOORS,
 chose their foreman and examined the witnesses. Mrs Mannering first appear ed before them and the following wit nesses were summoned to the star cham Der, Coroner Higgins of Winsted, Dr Pons of Roxbury, Prof Smith of Yale, Fred Schmiedel of Washington, William Whitman of Washington, Mir and Mrs Wooden of Morris and Francis A. l Squires of ROxbury, all of whom ap- peared before in the case. at RoXbury. At D the jurors had finished their work and filed back into the court room. They answered to the roll call and the clerk asked if they had any communica- tion for the court. Their foreman, Jared B. Foster, announced that they had and handed the clerk the communi- cation which announced that they had
 FOUND A TRUE BILL.
 As a result Mrs Mannering will have to
 spend the summer in Litchfield at the county jail, for which she started late in
 the afternoon, accompanied by the sher-
 fir and her relatives. The trial will not
 take place until the fall term of the
 criminal court, which will probably be