Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-09-04
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1 cuSed person t0af l cannot fraEsse q :
strong theory for the aefen y. Has-
| Ing made this statement To . friend
who IL practical worker II p-ison re
| form. be told me that he had SEGA
woman whom he believed to he limo
cent serving life sentence for harms
! poisoned Der husband. he asxei I.1e 10
| visit he- aai Il cane away with the
same opIaioa as himself to interest nay
self in be- behEif | consented
found Mrs .u.ia Ringland pretty
wosnan Il thirty / had long CONVEX
slti1n wish her. not with view II
learning OF her guilt or Innocence fr7m
he. arguments. but to make up my
mind upon the HIGHER plane of fntui-
don II did not seem TO me to be pos
sibIe for n refined person. as Mrs. Ring
lani was. II guilty OF frightful crime
10 appear TO me TO be Innocent After
long conversation left her perfectly
sure that she was being punis1ed for
crime she had not committed This
conclusion had nothing to do with any
appeal whatever to my reason.
This Is synopsis Of her case. she
married Peter Ringland. man twenty
years older than herself, a stiny.
crusty note shaver of the oltien type
Rinyiand. never In good health, at la
gradually sank away ami died What
he died Of no one knew. for he was too
mean to have doctor. He was burie1 j.
and his wife proceeded to take posses
sion OF his estate.
One day Ernest A. Parsons recei red
At his club through the mail a note
signed Julia RinSland. of whom lie
that she loved him. but would not per
NIT him to be near her so long as her
husband lived The note ended wi
the single word Wait"
1t happened that there was anotht
Parsons In the club. Edward A. T.
sons. The note had been addressed
E. A. Parsons and had fallen Into
wrong hands The Parsons who re
ceived II talked about IL. Its existcn
reached the ears of Peter Rivgla1si
relatives, and they accused the wido
OF having poisoned her husband Th
body was exhumed the stomach an.
lyzed and arsenic found In sU.ficie-,
quantity to kill several men. The no.
and the arsenic were the main pctnl
on which the prosecuting attorney 81
cured conviction.
My proving Mrs. Ringland's in-s
cence depended solely upon one p1.:s
her husband must have taken az
senic without the knowledge OF ans
one else. The attorney for the defeh
had taken this position. but could q 8
duce no proof that RinSland had eve
bought grain Of arsenic In his life
He had investigated every drug sto.p
IN the SUBURBAN town In wniea hing
iand mad lived, bnt not one nal ere.
sold the drug TO the ceceasei
prooien occurred 70 me- King anu va
SO stIngy fhas ne migrt have bousA-
the drug wholesale. Inc theory was
certainly farfefchei, but l Determined
to investigate the wholesale drug-i y
thoroughly There We're hye OF them
In the city. went TO all OF them ana
asked If they had had any accoCls
with Peter RinS!and. Not one OF tacl.
had ever had such an account on its
BOOKS BESIDES tney would hoi haFt
SOLD the goods 10 any one not IN tae
drug business, certainty not AT the
wholesale piice. since mad mace ~
my mind tnat proving hiasiahas par
chase OF the drug himself was the oniy
possible way OF estanashing his whi-
0w'g innocence I ttefprfnltlp1 = 4