Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-30
Locked Door Behind Her.

Finally she said she wasn't goins to
talk to me no more and went upstairs
where the folks was eatin' dinner. l
guess she was afraid I was goin' to
follow her Upstairs. cause she locks the
door at the top l could hear the key
a-turnin. and when | heard it / get get
now why 1 did it. but / went over and
looked up that box of rough on -ra T. $
and dumped it in that coffee can l
l was alvin. When 1 got home felt
sort of sorry for what I'd done, but it
was too late then"
why didn't you go back there and
tell the Barrows what you had done
or warn them some way: asked De-
tective Cornwel1.
II was afraid to do it, replied the
happen to me-"
The Clarkson woman was taken to po-
lice headquarters this morning, and was
measured and photographed. Later sne
was taken to Police Court. where she
was arraigned on a formal charge of at
tempted murder. Because Of the illness
of the principal witnesses she was re-
manded without bail for hearing later
in the week.
Mrs Barrows and her daughter Flor
ence are still i'll as a result Of their eX-
perience Miss Mary Barrows has al
most entirely recovered from the effects
Of the poison. Mrs Barrows discussed
Dozens of Things Missed.
THAT woman was a very oily, smooth
spoken person., said she. She was a
splendid servant and an admirable cook,
but I am convinced that she was dis
honest We missed dozens of things,
and from our knowledge Of conditions in
the household we knew that she must
have taken them, but she always denied
her guilt. After ! had given her that
check and sent her away I decided that
/ had done foolish thing in paying her.
and / ordered payment stopped, but the
bank people misunderstood me, because
the check went through.
THE woman had cashed it at some
business place When she came back on
Friday and began to demonstrate with
my Youngest daughter we were at din
ner My daughter told her that If she
paid back the amount OF the check to
the bank we would not prosecute her for
stealing all the things which we had
missed, but that If she refused to do
this we would most certainly bring pro-
ceedinRs against her. This angered her,
and she began to use diSagreeable Ian
guage. My daughter told her to leave
the house and came upstairs, locking the
door at the top OF the stairway to make
sure that the woman would not follow
her.
'She was left alone in the kitchen for
a very little while. l. do not believe that
she was there for more than five minutes,
hut in that time she put the poison In
the coffee. We never suspected anything
of the sort until we were taken Ill. the
next morning at breakfast Then close
INSPECTION of the pulverized coffee in the
can revealed the presence OF fine
white powder mixed up with 1t.
Former Suspicious Illnesses.
..1,bara uas no alteration between my
daughter and the woman, as has been
stated. My daughter left her when she
observed that the woman was In an ugly
mood and came upstairs.
I'VE are beginning to consider certain
inexplicable illnesses which We expert
enced on several occasions In the last few
months and we have practically decided
| that this woman has tried to poison us
| before.
The Barrows are members of vel
| known Richmond family. They have hveG
| on Dupont Circle for a little more than q
year.
| The canister OF coffee has been turned
over to Prof. Lynch. the health depart
ment chemist, who has already reported
the finding of arsenic in it. He will make
further examination and will present a
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