The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-02-22
jill. Rademacher Arrested
at Blue Earth.
SENSATIONAL ACTION BEGUN
Wife Finds Arsenic in Coffee Pot.
Authorities at Work on the
Case.

A phone message from Blue Earth
to The Fairmont Sentinel states that
sensation was caused in that town on
Sunday by the coming to light of evil
dence that Henry Rademacher had at.
tempted to poison his wife by putting
arsenic in her coffee. The evidence was
so strong that he was arrested and
placed in Jail at eight O'Clock Sunday
night.
The report is that about week ago
Mrs. Rademacher suspicioned that her
coffee had been tempered with and did
not drink it but said nothing and saved
the contents of her cup Again Sun
day morning she, by some means not
stated, was convinced that her husband
had put something in her coffee. She
did not drink it and after breakfast
took both samples to a chemist who
analyzed them and found that they con-
tanned arsenic.
So far as the world knows Mr.. and
Mrs. Rademacher have had no serious
domestic trouble and the woman SAYS
she knows Of no reason why her hus-
band should wish to be rid of her.
DCioiC W l1luC IIdl I'll tuc par
ties lived in Fairmont and both we be-
lieve were born in Martin county, and
are well and favorably known here Mrs.
Rademacher was the only daughter of
the late J. X. Davis, an early settler of
this city.
The Blue Earth Post has the follow
ing about this peculiar case:
The report Sunday morning that j..
H. Rademacher had attempted to poison
his wife and perhaps other members of
the family, and his subsequent arrest
and Judgment at the county Jail, created
no little excitement in this city.
Mr.. Rademacher and family came here
from FairmOnt five years ago last fall,
where Mr.. Rademacher has had charge
of the Colman lumber interests as resi-
dent agent, and his conduct, so far as
the world at large was aware, has been
of the best-ever attentive and prompt
in his business affairs, and faithful to
family ties, the news was doubly start
ling.
He is charged with an attempt to
poison his wife by putting arsenic in
pot of coffee which was being pre-
pared for the family meal and indeed
the preponderence of evidence is said
to be against him at this stage of the
proceedings, but as yet no trace of where
the drug was procured has been unearth-
ed. A record of the sales of poisons is
kept by druggists and no record can be
found in Blue Earth drug stores to show
that he had purchased such a drug, but
it was discovered in the coffee grounds
Just the same, whether it was placed
there by Mr.. Rademacher or someone
else.
As matter of course since the ar
rest many rlmors are aflOat as to the
conduct of Mr.. Rademacher during the
past few months, of his infidelity, ETC.,
but this paper does not care to indulge
will cut the deplorable incident as short
as possible. 1t is understood the SER
vices of Messrs. Putnam & Nicholson
were engaged by Mrs. Rademacher to
assist in the case, Sunday afternoon. At
this writing the date of hearing has not
been set.
The accused is man of hitherto
unblemished reputation, and people are
10th to believe the hideous charge laid
against him, while some there are of his
most intimate friends who utterly re-
fuse to believe it.
+. c. Dean of FairmOnt is i'll town
today and we understand has been en-
ployed by Mr.. Rademacher as his attor-
ney in the case.
Mr.. Richard Rademacher, brother
from Fairmont. came over Monday even
ing and spent the night with the prison
er at the Jail. In statement to a
friend this forenoon he said his brother
denied point blank the truth of the
charges of infidelity, and protested en-
phatially his innocence of the charge
of attempting to poison his wife. A
hearing will be held but it is doubtful
if it occurs before the early part of
next week.