The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-07

uoW we can speak!
Sheriff Furbee and Deputy Watson
captured Helen Payton and Frank
Wright at Sistersville about noon Sat
urday and arrived at Fairmont with
their prisoners on No. Saturday
night.
Ever since the chemists analysis,
showing the presence of "strychnine
in notable quantities" in the stomach
of Helen Payton's dead husband, ar.
rived last Friday, we have had the
. time flour lives keeping quiet, but
1t seemed best not to publish the re.
suit of.the analysis till the wife and
her paramour were apprehended.
The sheriff and his deputy started
in pursuit Of the fugitives at $3.50
Saturday morning. Word had been
received from the authorities at Man.
nington. where Payton's death occur
red July 18th, that the Payton house
hold goods had been shipped Wednes-
\ day of last week to Sistersville, in
Tyler county. Furbee and Watson &C.
cordingly went straight through to
Sistersville, arriving there about nine
o'clock. Chief of Police Williams, of
Sistersville, was enlisted in the
search. Inquiry at the freight office,
the express offices and the baggage
rooms revealed nothing. A search of
the hotels and boarding houses was
alike productive of no result. Man.
;nington was communicated with over
the long distance phone and new light
was shed on the search when the fact
was ELECTED that the shipment of the
household effects had been made to
Barney Wright, at Sistersville. Chief
Williams recognized this name, and
started on solitary scout past the
Barney Wright residence. A man and
a woman were sitting on the porch,
and Williams recognized them from
Sheriff Furbee's description as being
the people sought. He went back and
notified the other two, and the three
went up to the house and put Wright
and Mrs. Phillips under arrest. Bar
.ney Wright proved to be Frank
Wright's father, and is said to be a
citizen Of good reputation and unbe-
smirched record.
Young Wright is hardly the man
or boy. since he is but 10 years of age
would connect with crime of
the sort for which he has been arrest
ed. He is tall, over six feet, and slim,
with light hair and OF fair complexion;
and his features are boyish-almost,
one would say, girlish in contour. The
woman, on the other hand, "looks the
part" OF medium height, dark, of
sallow complexion, with the familiar
hardened" look about the eyes and
mouth, and self-appreciative in man,
ner, She both looks and acts perfectly
capable of the heinous offense with
which she is charged. In strong con-
trast is she to her present cell-mate
at the county Jail, the unfortunate Sa-
srah Taylor, who is probably the fair
.est and least criminal-looking woman
ever confined there.
The two prisoners made little fuss
over their arrest, though both protest.
ed their innocence strongly. The wo.
man was not handcuffed, and Wright
begged so hard that he be taken
through the streets of Sistersville
without handouts on that the brace.
lets were not put on him till he reach.
ed the railroad station. The pair
were kept separated on the trip, Fur
bee taking charge of Mrs. Payton, and
Watson Of Wright. At Wheeling
there was a wait of some time for a
train. and Mrs. Payton insisted on 60.
Ing to the house where she and Wright
had stayed Wednesday night, to re-
cover hat she had left there. The
sheriff took her up to the house, "a
rather inauspicious looking hosiery,
and she asked the proprietors wife
for her hat. The woman called her
: husband, and he informed Mrs. Pay
ton that he had her hat and that she
could have 1t on the return of about SC
worth of linen that she had made off
with. The woman made a tart reply
and the proprietor made as though to
call an officer. but Sheriff Furbee ins
formed him that she was already un-
der arrest When he learned the ma
ture of the charge against her the
boniface declared that he hoped to
HI she hung for it,
Mrs. Payton hadn't much to say on