Evening journal., 1898-08-19
REWARD FOR POISONER
Highest Ever Offered BY the
State of Delaware.
IMPORTANT TELEGRAMs RECEIVED

THE PACKAGE.
Dover, August 19.-Governor Tunnel
yesterday offered, ON behalf OF tn,
State OF Delaware, reward of 80 .OOl
for the arrest and conviction of tn,
sender OF the box Of poisoned candy
that caused the death of Mrs. ]. p
Dunning and her sister, Mrs. ]. d
Deane. The announcement of the re.
ward was made directly after a con.
ference by the governor with Attorney.
General White. after consulting ex.
Congressman Pennington, father Of the
murdered women.
The reward which l have offered. :"
said. Governor Tunnell, "is the largest
ever offered in Delaware. believe, but
the gravity Of the case demands it. ]
hope that the reward is large enough
to create an interest in the case and to
induce officers and detectives to give
their time and attention to it in order
to capture the murderer. 1 hope that
the mystery will be unravelled and the
guilty person brought to the punish
ment deserved. The details Of the case
and its investigation are in the hands
OF the attorney general. With that I
have nothing to do, and shall refer
everyone to him, but l am sure every
thing possible will be done to place the
guilt of this crime"
Mr. White yesterday afternoon tele-
graphed to the authorities at San
Francisco asking them concerning the
work of investigating the case in that
city, and received a reply in a short
time. A telegram addressed to Attor-
ney-General White was received in Do
yer last night from San Francisco and
shown to ex-CongressmaQ Pennington
and Governor TunneH DIE attorney
general Tefeused to dIcuss either
telegram, but it is known the last one
was from person to whom a message
had been sent to confirm a clue. The
telegram was satisfactory, and will be
turned over to the detectives.
The letter that DR.. L. A. H. Bishop
who attended the dead women, re-
ceived from New Matamora, o., sign
ed 'fDr. S. NJ Richardson" is regard
ed as the work OF a crank, who read
Of the case in the newspapers. There
is no similarity in the writing with
that on the package Of candy, it is de-
clared.
Ex-Congressman Pennington has re-
ceived large number Of letters, many
writer's offering condolences, while
Others are Of very different charac-
ter. One "mind-reader" wrote that II
Mr.. Pennington would do up the candy
box in certain manner, and send
pieces Of the dead women's clothing
to him, he would not only tell where
the package came from, but would
give the name OF the sender.
Detectives who could hardly write,
and could not spell wrote, that they
were at the service OF Mr.. Penning-
ton, and men of science and chemical
experts sent their business cards, which
set forth how easily they could conduct
analysis.
The only letter that has been sent to
this town addressed to Mr.. Dunning. |
is from Carlisle, Pa, and is supposed
to be from a friend, who offers con-
dolence.
DIR. RICHARDSON'S LETTER.
New Matambras, o., August 19.-
DR.. S. NJ Richardson, Of this place,
who wrote a letter to DR.. Bishop. Of
Dover, DEL, regarding the mysterious
by means CT a box Of candy,
that is now attracting so much atten-
tion, was asked yesterday regarding
the letter.
In his note, DR.. Richardson asked
DR.. Bishop if it had occurred to him
that the candy might have been put up
and manipulated by someone in
Dover, and recommended that that end
OF the case be looked up, as well as the
San Francisco end.
DR.. Richardson. who is thoroughly
reliable man, and well-known in New
when asked ABOUT the let
ter, said that he knew nothing more
than he had stated in his letter to Or.
Bishop.
ATTORNEY GENERAL HERE.
Attorney-General Robert @. White
spent a few minutes in Wilmington
yesterday afternoon in conference with
State Detectives Witsil and Mcvey
and laid before them the facts relative
to the Dover tragedy, and instructed
them in what manner to proceed in the
case.
The detectives will take hold Of the
case at once, and while the attorney
general said that they would not be
sent out Of the state, it is.nct thought
that they would be kept here should
require them to be sent else
where. 1t is the determination Of the
authorities to solve the mystery and ,