The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-09
e8ADDICK POISONING CASE.
orxG WIFE RE-ARREsTED UPON
STRONG EVIDENCE.

s..vont saw Her Put Something In
en- Her Husbands COffee-Man Died
rnder Suspicious Circumstances.
Doctors Found Arsenic in the
stomach' and Arsenic in a Bottle
concealed in the House - Testi-
many at the Inquest.
.-o,,pob.a. s. c. March Safer an in
,.r,.,I of three weeks the Graddick poi
ming case has again been brought be-
f,r. the public and has developed into one
- the greatest sensations of the kind
brown in this state for many years.
About the middle of February, j. w.
cradjick, a storekeeper in Columbia, aged
about 25, died under suspicious circum-
stances. The coroner began an investiga-
zion and pending the analysis of the con-
fonts of the stomach of the dead man,
Mrs. Belle Graddick, his widow, and Hen.
ry Dawkins, a youth about is, were ar
rested and put in jail They We're releas-
ID a week ago, there being no law which
enabled them to be held. Last night the
iurv met to hear the testimony from the
chemists who have been making the anal
ysis and also the evidence of other wit
nesses who testified at the time of Grad
dicks death, but now admit that they
lied in their first statements.
As a verdict the jury nnds that Grad
dick came to his death by arsenic pois-
onng administered in the opinion of the
jury by his wife, Mrs. Belle Graddick."
Mrs Graddck has again been arrested
and calm.
Arsenic in His Stomach.
Dr. owens testified that he had found
more than enough arsenic, after making
many tests, to kill a man.
Matte Fisher the Graddcks cook. gave
evidence indicating that the medicine
given Graddick by his wife out of a GER
tain bottle, was administered for about
five days She told where she had seen
this bottle hidden-between the woodwork
and bricks of the fireplace. A policeman
found it, and the little residue in the bot
tie was pronounced by the chemists as
arsenic diluted.
Matte said Mrs. Graddick told her she
had given Ella Taylor, negress root doc
tor, $15 for that bottle of medicine, and it
was to cure him of the cigarette habit.
She would wash the cup her husband took
the medicine in separately. The cook,
continuing, said she told Mrs. Graddick
she did not like that, and would have to
leave. Mrs. Groddick tod her to go, and
threatened to make Dawkins kill her if
she said anything about it. That was
why she denied knowing anything when
first questioned.
Suspicious Were Aroused.
DR.. Robert Earle testified to having at
tended Graddick when he had the grip.
He got better and was up, when he was
called and told by his wife that Graddick
had exposed himself and suffered a re-
lapse He had told her a relapse would
be dangerous. The patient, however, was
doing well until the night of Feb. Il,
When the physician who had been sum
moned by the nurse, found him suffering
agony, and his suspicious We're aroused,
but he had no proof Graddick improved
after his arrival and the following even
ing said he was better But that night
the doctor was again summoned and found
the same symptoms as the night before,
only more marked. Graddick could not
rally and died in great agony the next
morning.
The negro youth who nursed the sick
something in the essence of coffee she
gave her husband-a red stuff
A woman who lived near the Graddick
house swore that Mrs. Graddick had told
her she would give $50 for some medicine
to put him to sleep so he would not wake
again.
Young Dawkins has not yet been rear
rested.