The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-19

bingham, who spends his summer
there. while Swayne passed on.
SElyne is well remembered in town
today, by reason of his eccentricities,
which seemed to bring him all kinds
of trouble. They recognize in this
chemist who has now come into prom
inence in the latest phase Of the Mo-
| lineux- Cornish-Adams murder mystery
| in New York. Mrs. Adams, 1t will be
| readily recalled, died last January after
| drinking a bromo settler preparation
which had been sent to Harry Cornish
as Christmas present, and which was
found to contain cynanide of mercury,
combined with the bromo seltzer.
| Molineux was arrested charged with
sending the bottle of poison to Cornish,
and the case is to be heard by the
grand jury this week.
| The case has been one Of the most
mysterious and sensational that New
York has had for many years.
| Swayne has just come into 1t through
an article which appeared in the New
York World Monday, which relates that
in 1897 he made poisonous compound
for an individual styling himself III.
| Cornish of Hartford. The article con-
tains this affidavit by Swayne:
State of Connecticut.
New Haven County-ss.
| New Haven, July II, 1899
Walter S. Swayne, of the town and
county of New Haven. state of Connecti-
cut, having made due affirmation, deposes
and says that in the spring of 1897 an in
| dividual giving his name as Cornish came
| to the house of said Swayne and asked
to have made, a compound of mercury,
so concealed that the mercury could not
be detected in the compound, and that
the compound should be whitish powder.
He wished to use the stuff in the coll
oring Of carpets, he said
He directed that the compound should
be sent to II. Cornish, Hartford, Ct"
The compound was made as directed, an
peras being used. The compound was sent
as directed. Later in the fall of the
Same year the said Cornish sent a letter
| from New York city asking that Swayne
pound, saying that Mr.. Swayne might re-
ceiye orders for $4,000 lots.
Mr.. Swayne made up another small
quantity Of the compound, sent it as be-
| fore TO Cornish, at Hartford. The card
upon which Cornish wrote his address Is
now in the possession of Barlow S..
| Weeks.
The letter from Cornish in New York
was returned to Cornish by Mr. Swayne
Immediately after it's receipt. Mr.. Swayne
wrote note on the back of the letter
stating the terms for which he would
make the compound in large Quantities.
For each of the quantities Swayne re-
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| Personally appeared Walter S. Swayne,
signer Of the foregoing, and under pains
and penalty of perjury made solemn af-
firmation to the truth of the same before
me. William O'Brien,
Justice of the Peace.
The World says Swayne is of good
| family, and originally came from Bos-
ton. He married a sister of Richard u
| Dana, the poet and author of 1.-TWO
Years Before the Mast" The World
| further says of him:
Chemist Swayne is well known In
New Haven, but more as a horticultuf-
| list than chemist. His laboratory ex-
| perience has been mostly in other and
larger cities. He had at one time a
contract for the board Of health for the
removal Of garbage, which he utilized
In fancy farming operations. At Pres
| ent he is raising violets for the local
and New York markets. His house on
the top Of Spring Clear hill Is a square
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