Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-09-12
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FAMOUS POISONING CASES
NOTEWORTHY CONVICTIONS Sc.
CUReDlN NEW YORK RECENTLY.
Tho Fleming Bliss Case Now Interesting
The people of Gotham-A Murder In
voiying Some of the Famous Names
In American History.

When the jury found DR.. buchanan
guilty upon the charge of numbering his
wife by means of poison, the District-At-
torney is reported according to the New
Correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
to have have said: THAT verdict will put
a stop to poisoning in New York" Not
very long before this extraordinary case
was successfully prosecuted, another jury
had pronounced Carlyle Harris guilty of
the murder by poison of young girl to
whom he had been secretly married
To have procured two convictions upon
charges of murder in the first degree with
poison as the deadly agent was thought by
prosecuting officers everywhere, as remark
able, since death by poison, while it is not
very difficult to establish, is by the very
nature of the agency frequently very diff
ficult to prove.
Other facts than those which have been
reported in the newspapers but which the
police and the prosecuting officers are not
justified at present in revealing, cause IT
to seem very likely that the prosecution
of n woman who calls herself Mrs. Fleming
but who is really Miss Mary Livingston
viii be sensational in the true meaning OF
that word. 1t may become a celebrated
case 1t may take its place with the mys.
FERROUS deaths by poisoning Of Jennie
Cramer if she was poisoned and of Mary
Standard to whom arsenic was given, and
whose throat was cut before poison caused
death.
Even if Miss Livingston, he unsuccess-
| fully brought before u jury, the case
will be remarkable, partly because of her
strange career, the story ofta.nted heredity
which it Will suggest, because hen
name and her blood suggest horrelationshir
to ono of the greatest American families ant
her life in some ways comparable with
that career which made miserable a gifted
descendant Of another great American
family which was closely allied with thC
Livingstons.
THE POISONING OF MRS. BLISS.
The story. in "A word, is this: Mrs. Bliss
the widow of the late Judge Livingston OF
one of the upper counties, and the mother
Of Mrs. Mary A. Livingston, was suddenly
overcome by a deadly illness and died ir
such manner as to suggest that she had
been previously poisoned. Her daughter
Miss Livingston, was, II is said, to gar
benefit to the extent of many Thousand
dollars by the death of her mother. There
fore II IS presumed--the presumption being
based upon the fact that Mrs. Bliss dice
after eating of dish which the daughter
sent her and in the remnants of which tho
scientists have found traces of poison-that
Miss Livingston sought her mothers death
80 that she might come into possession oil
q fortune.
OF course when such a terrible accusa
tons are made, the first impulse of the
police is to make inquiry, so that the life
and disposition of the suspected person
may be known. Unfortunately for Mis-!
Livingston, that inVt stigau1n was not such
as to make 1t impossible to believe that sh,
could have conceived or committed thi:
crime. She, in fact, has confessed to tn,
public her misstep by suing wealthy anC
typically fast young New Yorker fol
breach of promise, asking large damage!
for the sake of the child, which was hers
and which she claimed also to be his.
Afterward she made another accusation
in legal form and of like nature, which in
NolVed, if true, the character of a RESPECTED
lawyer That came to naueht. She wa!
Defeated, but the first case she won, gaining
50 much as $4,000 damages; but before
/ second trial could be had on appeal she
made private settlement of her claim be
cause, as the counsel for the man she suet
had said, he had discovered her waywarC
impulses had dominated her even in hel
carly girlhood.
SHE WAS a LIVINGSTON.
These suits were the sensation of the mo
ment when they were brought. partly be
cause the men from whom she claimed
damages were conspicuous. and partly be
cause the young woman was a LdVinE6ro on
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