The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-01
hEN0UGH TO
! KILL A
!. PERSON ?"
Mrs. Phares Said to Have Thus
Asked tho Druggist Who
sold StUchnino.

Mount Holly, N. J.. July 1.-Smiling and
oonndent. Mrs. Anna z. Phares stood In
court 20 answer to the charge OF muir
dering her husband. Albert Phares. on
March 8 last by giving him strychnine.
she has declared that she will never go
Ito the gallows.
4 Mrs. Phares IS a comely young widow,
not more than thirty, OF the brunette
type, plump and pretty. She wore a
smart frock OF fashionable dark gray
trimmed with black, and black. broad
brtmmed hat over which was thrown a
thin black veil. Ushered 10 seat near
her counsel, Col Eckard H. Budd. the
young woman with brtght-faced little
= daughter OF three years nesting In ner
lap, sat between her brother and her SIS
tar while prosecuting Attorney Samuel
Atkinson, for the commonwealth. stated
his case 20 the jury.
Mr. Atkinson said that on Monday
March 9. Albert A. Phares, constable
Of Jacksonville, Burlington county, com
planned of feeling III and that his wife
the defendant, administered a powder 10
him which the state would try to prove
was vtrychnine and that during the same
afternoon Phares died. The state wound
chow, said Mr.. Atkinson. that Mrs.
Phares. had purchased thirty grains OF
the strychnine OF Raymond Wells a
druggist, OF Columbus. town near Mt.
Holly. and had asked him how much IT
would take TO kill man.
The motive for' the alleged crime, Mr
Atkinson said, the state would show, was
Mrs. Phares' love for Garfield Taylor.
with whom she had made several trips
to different places, and IN one OF them
1t least posed as his wife.
Harry Burr. who lives near the Phares
49, 10 . hA
Phares house the day Albert Phares died.
SAID HE FELT SICK.
ct went over TO see Al that day" said
the witness and found him lying on
a sofa complaining OF feeling sick and
weak. I sat down and chatted with
him until Mrs Phares, his wife. returned
from Columbus. where she had gone 70
consult a doctor about AIS condition, she
said, and to make some purchases.
'She went out OF the sitting-room into
the dining-room and kitchen. but came
back in a few minutes. holding some
powders In a spoon. She told Al the
powders were medicine DR.. Dubell had
recommended 10 take. She said TO AL
Dear Dubell SAID you must take these
and that II they make you feel badly
soon after you have taken them you
must not mind. but keep on taking them
anyhow Al took the dose. Pretty soon
ne began 10 complain, and said the pow
ders were very bitter and that they made
him feel very badly. He said he was
afraid to take any more"
Raymond Wells. a druggist OF Colum-
bus. swore that on the 9th OF March. the
day Albert Phares died. Mrs. Phares en-
tered his store and asked for strychnine
He told her he could not sch the poison
without a physicians prescription. She
replied that she wanted the poison TO
kll rats and that DR.. Dubell had told
her that the druggist would not require
a prescription n he knew II was for rats
. and n he was acquainted with the pur-
schaser, Then the druggist consented 10
sell the poison.
Wells swore that as he handed II 70
Mrs. Phares she joldngly asked. rs that
enough TO KIN a person." To which he
replied, Yes. there's enough poison IN
that package TO Kill several persons"