Evening journal., 1894-09-21
A POIS0NER Ar LARGE.
He Has Terrified the People In
a Connecticut Town.
soATTERs PARIS GREEN AT NIGHT.

lie Has killed Hundreds Of Domestic AMI
mails and Attempted to kin whole
Family by Putting Poison In VOL.
Citizens Are Hunting For Him.
HARTFORD, Sept. e1.-Tho village Of
Harwinton, up among tho rugged Con-
noctieut hills is In great turmoil on ac-
count Of being whom the local papers
call a fiend in human form, who has
risky habit Of stiolling about the village
streets after nightfall with a box Of paris
green undor his arm, sitting the poison
in places where It is likely TO do harm to
those he dislikes.
He Is q mysterious creature, and he
moves as stoulthily as shadow, making
no mark or leaving no elew. He plies his
deadly calling boldly, but with great sa-
gaelty withal II. W. So Clair and fam
ily together with the families Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley and Mr.. and Mrs. John Nc
Donald, OH prosperous and leading folks
of Harwlnton, are evidently tho perEons
particularly whose undoing he seeks to
accomplish
Nearly Poiaoned Three Families.
In one instance tho fond narrowly miss
cd numbering all the persons named in
tho foregoing. II was not long ago that
II. w. ST. Clair removed from another
part Of the state TO Harwinton and went
to dwell with his foster father, Henry
Stanley on tho SO cailod Bartholomew
farm. IL is near the heart of the village.
There, too, dwell Mr. and Mrs John Nc
Donald
At times in tho last two or three weeks
all the membors of the three families were
stricken with a sudden and unacoounta-
ble illness, and the local physioians as
we'll as the patients themselves, fanoied
thore might be germs of disease in their
drinking water Indeed there were such
germs there, but by no means of the ma
turo they imagined. Finally Mrs. Stan
ley's chickens died suddenly one night,
and thoir bodies were found stretched
about tho harnynrd the following morn
ing. A fow hours later several members Of
the household were taken Violently i'll,
and then IL was that suspicion flashed in
20 Henry Stanley's mind that he and his
neighbors had been the victims of paris
groen poisoner
Poison In the Water.
He drew bucket Of water and sent a
liberal sample of It to tho Harwlnton
druggist who promptly analyzed It. Il
was found to ho thick with paris green
This incident took place a week ago. Since
then, OFF and on the paris green fend has
piled his art more audaciously and indus
triously than any one Of the famous old
time Medici poison artists. Two days after
poisoning the Stanley well no bagged an
other fasch OF Mrs Stanley's chickens,
and q day lntor killed. Mrs. Stanley's prize
pig Ia it's pom.
Trnoes Of tho greon stuff were found
by her On the edge Of the pig sty, where
unon the whole family were thrown into
state Of deadly CONSERVATION, fearing
that death at tho hands Of their secret
and mysterious and unknown enemy may
By lurking In every morsel Of their daily
fcod, and thoy are at a loss to devise
means to escapo from his persecution.
Until fow days ago he had carried out
his poisoning trade against tho Stanloys
exclusively, but the other night he ap.
poared on the promises Of St. Clair
A Glimpse Of the Onendor.
II was just before daybreak and Mr..
ST. Clair heard his horse whinnying in d
barn. fastening to his barn, he was just
quick enough to got q glimpse Of a form
that skipped across tho barnyard, scaled
its stone wall noiselessly and glided quick
iy across bhe Qhfk uelua, disappearing Oven
the brow Of o neighboring knoll. The
farmer made no effort to pursue the in.
terloper, but suspeoting his errand hur.
ried into his horses stall
There, sure enough, he found evidence
IN plenty that was revealed by his lantern
light of the deadly work plotted against
| him. Half box Of tho poisonous green
| flour had been dumped into tho horses
mangor The animal, however, had not
yet partnken OF It.
Constable Hogan has within the last
three days taken tho field against the
l fiend but thus far has obtained no olew
respecting his identity. he had tho Stan
| ley well water examined again by chem
| ist, however, with tho result thnt Il was
shown to have been dosod second time.
Tho entire village Of Harwinton is now
/ Intensely excited over the bold and sweep
Ing poisoning campaign. 1t IS likely e.
60 very hard with the ofondor, the exas-
perated farmors say significantly, II POI.
chance they arc able to lay hands on him
when he is Ia the act Of perpetrating hi.
/ malignant deeds.