Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-21
A POISONER AT LARGE.
He Has Terrified the People Tn
 a Connect cut Town.
soATTERs PARIS GREEN AT NIGHT.

maIs and Attempted to XIII a Whole
 Family by Putting Poison In . We'll.
 Citizens Are Hunting For Him.
 HARTFORD, Sept 2I.-The village of Harwinton, up among the rugged Con- necticut hills, Is in n great turmoil on ac- count of a being whom the local papers call a fiend in human form, who has a risky habit of strolling about the yiilags streets after nightfall with q box of paris green under his arm, sitting tho poison in places wherc it Is likely to do harm to those he dislikcs.
 He is n mysterious creature, and he moves as stealthily as a shadow, making no mark or leaving no clew. He plies his deadly calling boldly. but with great sa- gacity withal. H. W. St. Clair and fam fly, together with the families of Mir. and Mrs. Stanley and Mir. and Mrs. John Mo Donald, all prosperous and leading folks of Harwinton, are evidently the pcr=ons particularly whose undoing he seeks to accomplish.
 Nearly Poisoned Three Families.
 In ono instance the fond narrowly miss cd numbering all tho persons named in tho foregoing. It was not long ago that H. w. St Clair removed from another part of the state to Harwinton and went to dwell with his foster father. Henry Stanley. on the so called Bartholomew farm. It Is near the heart of the village There, too, dwell Mir. and Mrs. John Mo Donald.
 At times in the last two or threc weeks all the members of the three families were stricken with n sudden and unaccounta- ble illness, and the local physicians, ns well the patients themselves, fancied there might be germs of disease in their drinking water. Indeed, there were such germs there, but by no means of tho na- ture they imagined. Finally Mrs. Stan ley's chickens died suddenly one night, and their bodies wore found stretched about the barnyard tho following morn ing. A few hours later several members of the household wero taken violently Ill, and then it wRs that suspicion flashed in to Henry Stanley's mind that he and his neighbors had been tho victims uf paris green poisoner.
 Poison In tho Water. He drew Q bucket of water and sent a i liberal sample Of 1t to the Harwinton druggist, who promptly analyzcd 1t. l; was found to be thick with paris green. 1 This incident took place a week ago. Since then, of and on, the paris green fiend has piled his art more audaciOusly and indus triously than any one of the famous old time Mcdici poison artists. Two days after 1 poisoning the stanley well he bagged an l other batch of Mrs Stanley's chickens and n day later killed Mrs. Sthnley's prize | pig in its pen.
 Traces of the green stufT wcrc found by her on the edge of the pig sty, where upon the whole family were thrown intS n state of deadly consternation, fearing 1 that death at tho hands of their secre | and mysterious and unknown enemy may be lurking in every mOrscl of their dail! l food, and they ar" at n loss to devis' l means to escape from his persecution ] Until n few days ago he had carried Ou his poisoning trade against the stanley exclusively. but the other night he ap peared on the premises of St. Clair.
 4 Glimpse of the Offender.
 IL ~ as tuEt L, :ure daybrclk, and Mir St. Clair heard his horso whinnying in barn. Fastening to his barn, he was jus quick enough to get n glimpse of form that skipped across the barnyard, scalc' It's stone wall noisclcssly and glidcd quick the brow of a noighboring knoll. Tn farmer made no effort to pursue the in terloper, but suspecting his errand hur ried into his horses stall.
 There, sure enough, he found cvidenc in plenty that was revealed by his lantcrl light of the deadly work plotted agains him. Half a box of the poisonous greei flour had been dumped into the horse manager. Tho animal, however, had no yet partaken of 1t.
 Constable Hogan has within the las three days taken the field against tn fiend, but thus far has obtained no cle, respecting his identity. He had the Stan ley well water examined again by n chem ist, however, with the result that 1t wa shown to have been dosed n second time.
 The entire village of Harwinton is no, Intensely excited over the bold and sweeJ ing poisoning campaign. It is likely go very hard with tho offender, the exa: perated farmers say significantly. if poi chance they arc able to lay hands on hiI when he Is In the act of perpetrating hi malignant deeds.