The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-28
MRS. RATHBUN IS ARRESTED
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 lice building just outside the doors o1 the inquest chambers was filled witt reporters, and as the hours grew late they grew tired of waiting and gave UT the watch for the day.
 At a few minutes before six o'clock however, Mrs. Rathbun was observed to leave the sweat chamber" in the GUS
 tody of Detective Ward. He stepped to the sergeant's desk in the headquarters while Detective McGrath took Hart from the lookup, after which the party moved towards the jail, where they spent the night.
 They will be brought down to the po- lice building again this morning, when the inquest will be resumed. The war rants under which both are held are coroner's warrants and will serve to hold both Mrs Rathbun and Hart in the custody of the police until the in- quest Is completed. The object that is quite apparent in the arrest of the two people is to keep them apart and pre- vent their changing the testimony they have already given.
 The form and text of the warrant un- der which Hart and Mrs. Rathbun are held follows. There is one exception in the warrant for Hart however, and that is in the date, which in his case is De- cember 26, which was Wednesday and the first day he was locked up:
 Unto the sheriff of the county of New
 Haven, his deputy, or any police off
 Ger of the city of New Haven, in said
 county, and to the keeper of the com
 mon jail in the town and county of
 New Haven-Greeting:
 Whereas, l, the undersigned, Eli Mix coroner for the county of New Haven, having good reason to suspect and do Ann Maria Rathbun, of said town of New Haven, of having crimi- nally caused the death of~ William Rathbun at said town of New Haven on the Fist day of December, 1900, in re- gard to whose death said coroner is holding an inquest; and
 Whereas, I, said coroner, has ordered, and does hereby order, that said Ann Maria Rathbun be forthwith arrested and committed to the common jail aforesaid until the expiration of the twenty-four hours from and after the finding of said coroner in and upon said or until she shall otherwise be released or discharged by order of said coroner and in full process of law;
 Now these are thereby, by the author ty of the state of Connecticut to com nand you to forthwith arrest the said Ann Maria Rathbun and commit her to he keeper of the common jail, and cave with said keeper this warrant, md the said keeper of said Jail Is com handed to receive and safely keep and bold said Ann Maria Rathbun within jaid Jail until the expiration of said wenty-four hours from and after the hiding of said coroner in and upon said or until she shall be released | otherwise or discharged by order of said | coroner and in due course of law.
 Dated at New Haven, this 27th day of | December, 1900. ELI MIX,
 @ Coroner of New Haven County.
 Among the witnesses examined also | y Coroner Mix yesterday afternoon we're Conductor Johnson and two | 'rakemen who were employed on the | anne train as Hart and Rathbun. Dr. | <lenke, the family physician, was also alled into the case about o'clock and | emained In the room about an hour.
 From what has been learned it ap- ears that the authorities have aban- oned the accidental poisoning theory nd the idea that an outsider was the ause of the presence of the drug, what yer 1t was The sugar that was claim d to have been some that was found in
 freight car in which barrel had been roken again figures in the testimony, ut the story of it's use Is changed h. tead of the sugar being put directly l the coffee Rathbun made a syrup of
 and with this he sweetened the wine 'hch has been found to contain the olson, and there was quantity of the olson left over.
 The next morning Mrs. Rathbun weetened Hart's coffee Che testifies) 'ith four teaspoonfuls of the sugar in agular use at the house, and then de- bite his outcry of remonstrance Che ,stifies) turned the rest of the syrup ito the drink.
 Hart Is said to have testified that hen he drank from the coffee in the lboose it burned his mouth and throat. e complained of it to Rathbun, who, indignant, drank some If it mself and his death resulted. It is nown that the coffee was poisoned and
 is also known that the poison was 'senc, but arsenic does not burn the outh.
 Now the question arises, Is Hart tell 2 the truth when he states that the ffee burned his mouth? There was trace of the poison found on him - hen he arrived at the hospital, and i e theory held is that his .story of talk g so much that he was nauseated and rowing it from his stomach is a yarn at he heard the physicians spinning. I the other hand, friends of Hart de- Ire that he has ever been a straight rward man whose word was always edited. Some of the stories declare at he did not drink any of the stuff ! ter Rathbun drank the fatal draught d that he drank no more than enough
 the first place to be able to call athbun's attention to the stuff. In ct, Mrs. Rathbun says so herself. As for Mrs. Rathbun, she seems to be unted by the fear of injury from out e her own house. She continually ars persons moving about the house | -fr r1 .1a II