New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-15
SOLD WOODWARD POISON
MUCH DAMAGING TESTIMONY GIVEN
AT CAMDEN MURDER TRIAL.
lBT TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE.


Camden Nov 14-''Paul Woodward told me that
he gave the boys poison and left them In the held
said John Morgan on the witness stand IN 'he
Woodward murder trial this afternoon. HE said
they had promised TO get money. and he met them
in Camden and took them out into the country.
They stopped at a cyclers rest and got some pies
and soft drinks Then they went further out
the road and gathered some chestnuts. and finally
about o'clock sat down rail pile Woodward
said he got water in can, put the poison
in II and gave IL to the boys TO drink He said
when he left them they were sitting up in the
grass and complained OF having headache He
said he got a watch and gold ring and N2 in
money from them. These. he said. he had thrown
into the river the morning Of the day the bodies
were found
Horgan was formerly a Gloucester saloonkeeper.
who is serving sentence Of four months in the
county Jail for selling liquor Sunday, and Wood
ward had made these admissions 20 him as they
played cards together. In vain the defence en-
deavored TO break his testimony. while the de-
PENDANT glared at him with the utmost hatred
pictured in his face.
That was one of the most important bits OF
testimony Of the day. but at the opening OF the
trial this morning the State sprung complete
surprise by producing a drug clerk who had sold
Woodward strychnine- He Isaac j. Seibert
and he had been In the employ Of Albert Collins
druggist at Third and Arch SITS. which Is mid
way between the homes Of Woodward and the
murdered lads He left there on October Z. three
days after the bodies were found. and is now en-
pIoyed in Trenton. The witness was closely ques-
toned as follows:
o.-Do you know the defendant? Al do.
Odd you sell him any strychnine2 A
/ did.
Q-For what purpose? A.-For killing cats.
which ne said were destroying his pigeons
Q-When was this? About FIVE weeks before
s f Or Mr. rsf fo Of sptemef the last OF
Q.-Was the defendant alone when he made these
purchases? A boy was with him, but I cannot
now identify him remember the defendant; my
transaction was with him.
large number OF school children testified 20
seeing Paul Woodward around the Cooper School
nquiring for Coffin and Jennings Just prior TO their
disappearance and few witnesses told of seeing
the three together in the country road in the neigh
borhood of where the boys met death and on the
day they disappeared.
Another important thread of the web of evidence
came out. To his two elder sisters Professor Jo-
seph Jennings father OF one OF the ads had given
plain gold rings than twenty years ago. To
his two sons. Willie and John. William Coffin had
given last Christmas small silver watches. James
+. Shedding testified that Woodward, Vho had gone
the house of Mrs Huber. in PHI lsIphis on the
FRIDAY after the boys disappeared. had showed
him plain gold ring and silver watch. which
Woodward asked him to pawn, but he refused.
Shtidins positively identified the watch and ring
Woodward had Lee Huber likewise identified the
TirE and the watch as exactly like those he had
shown that John Coffin had his watch when he left
home. and that Price Jennings must have taken his
GIrt's ring and something like - when he disap-
peared The mother OF young Comm teStthed De-
tween Sobs that Woodward had called upon her and
offered 20 find the boy IL he paid for IT, He told
her john had said he meant 70 run away, that
wanted Woodward TO go with them to Florida
The State will finish its case tomorrow morning