The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-01
'WOMANBEGUILED ME- HESAYS
TAILOR ACCUSES MRS. PHARES OF
MAKING ALL ADVANCES.

Admits wronB-DOins with Woman Who II
Charged with POISONING Her Husband
--wooed in Church. OF which Ill
= Had Key. when Phares was at Home
MOUNT HOLLY, N. j., June sO.--The tria
of Mrs. Annie Phares for the murderof hel
husband with poison was resumed this
morning. The damaging nature of the
testimony presented yesterday had a very
depressing effect upon Mrs. Phares and she
seemed to realize for the first time the dan
ger Of her position. In describing the con-
dition Of Phares's BODY when they visited
the house to hold an inquest, Charles F.
Black, member of the Coroner's jury, said
the hands were clenched and the head
thrown back as il he had died in great
agony. Mrs. Phares seemed very anxious
TO impress upon the jury the fact that he
died easy" The testimony of Coroner
Ridgway was in accord with that Of the
other witnesses present
Mrs, Phares cried little and then re-
covered her composure and tried to impress
upon the Coroner the idea that her husband
died easy
There was no struggle" she said. 4He
just gave gasp or two and died"
The finding Of small butter dish in the
ashes OF the kitchen stove at the Phares
house ON the day Of the sale Of the household
effects was described by William johnson,
farmer, who bought the stove. II will be
shown by the prosecution that this dish
was used by Mrs. Phares in preparing the
poison which she gave to her husband, and
that quantity of The poison still adhered
to it.
The statement of Chemist George M,
Berringer Of Camden, who made the analysis
OF the internal organs Of Phares, was that
he found one-seventh Of a grain of pure
etrychnia
DR.. j. B. Dubell. the family physician,
testified that Mrs. Phares had asked him
stryohnine could be purchased at drug
stores without prescription. He an
swered in the affirmative, whereupon
she said: Il tried to buy some at several
fused"
DR.. r. H. Parsons, who made the au-
topsy, declares that Phares had no organic
trouble. The present Of one-seventh of a
grain or syrychnia in the liver, kidneys
and stomach showed that death was caused
by poison.
Mrs. Levy W. Phares, the mother of the
murdered man, described visit of de-
Eonoiant to her house in Trenton last Spring
Later on she returned to the house on
March and explained that she had been
away on trip with Mrs. }. b. Townsend
While there she wrote to Garfield Taylor
arranging for an elopement with him and
In which she addressed him as Dear Hubby
Garfield" After Albert's death the de-
PENDANT appeared to be much annoyed
because officers had searched the house
for poison But, she added, 4they didn't
find any"
Tint the defendant had masqueraded as
the wife of Garfield Taylor was shown by
Taylors aunt. Miss Sarah j. Moore OF
Camden. who testified that Garfield, in
company with the defendant spent several
days at her home in Camden last February.
The defendant said she had been married
TO Garfield. and he also said she was his
wife.
In the afternoon Garfield Taylor was the
centre of attraction He lis tall, slender,
young and good looking. In his direct
testimony he made a favorable impression,
but that was quickly dissipated under cross
examination At the outset Taylor tried 10
give the impression that all the advances
invited him 10 the house urged him to go
away. with her on trips, and that, while on
a visit to Philadelphia, she begged him 10
marry her, but he had refused
Il was in Mr.. Phare's house the night he
died, said Taylor But it was merely by
accident. / didn't know he was going 70
die or had been poisoned, Mrs. Phares
never me ntioned poison TO me. Mr.
Phares did not suepsct me Of having i'm
proper relations with his wife, and she
never minated to me that he suspected
me.
II admit that was guilty OF repeated
offences Of that character Mrs. Phares
gave me presents Of various sorts, and
gave her several articles When her hus-
band was at home we used to meet in the
Methodist church at Jacksonville and spend
the evening together. | had key to the
church. When we went away together we
visited Camden and Philf delphe and
passed as husband and wife.
"She thought more OF me than she did
of her husband, and I was very fond of her.
Il FIRST visited her house at her husbands
request. He was away on business good
deal and asked ME to look after her while
he was gone"
O. Didn't you have an understanding with
Mrs; Phares about getting the poison killing
her husband, collecting the insurance money
and going away with herr A, No Posi-
lively not
o.Then all the trips YOU made with her
were nj her suggestion \ They were
O. Didn't you tell her YOU would never be
aid HRp ten herr her that nat WAC ''' wv"
Taylor became confused at this stage
OF the examination and contradicted HIM
self repeatedly. He admitted, however, that
Albert Phares acted at times AZ if he were
crazy, and once remarked that he wishel
he was dead That Mrs, Phare's love for
Taylor had turned to hate WAS shown by
her attitude to-day, and the manner in
which she suggested questions to her
counsel.
The defence will try to make it appear
that TAYLOR administered the poison.
WON'T HURT HARMONIC Gu u.