Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-25
insured Girl
 was Poisoned
WOMAN BLAMED FOR DEATH
 OF HER NIECE
FINDING OF CORONER
Mrs. Annie Monahan of New Haven Held Without RaiI-seeond Husband Showed Same Symptoms

New Haven, Conn.,, July 2l-Mrs, Annie E. Monahan is held criminally responsible for the death of her niece, Miss Jennie McNamee, on March IT, last by Coroner Eli Mix, whose find ing in the case was made public this afternoon. The coroner finds that Miss
 McNamee died of white arsenic poisoning, which was administered to her in small repeated doses by Axs. Monahan, the last being given Q few days before the young womanA8 death There was insurance on Miss McNa,- mee's life, the coroner says, to the amount of two thousand dollars, Mrs, Monahan being named as the hsns-
 1oiary,
 Mrs. Monahan had been held with out bonds pending the outcome of the coroner's investigation.
 Aunt Had Exclusive Care.
 The finding states that Miss Mc- Nance went to live with her aunt at nLne years of age. following the death of her mother. During the latter part
 but was able to be about the house
 until February of the present year,
 when she had to take to her ped. Her
 aunt had exclusive care of her giving
 her all medicines prescribed and food taken. Two physicians attanded tha young woman. and the cause of death
 was given as mitI'aI reorganization and neurltfs, During her Illness her stomach was much disturbed and a short time previous to her death khA had paralysis of the legs and arms, The Body Exhumed.
 After Jennies death Mrs, Monahan
 made immediate claim on the insurance companies and the coroner says, 1it being aseertained that her statements were not to be relied upon; that she
 had 8 criminal record, grave sus-
 picions were entertained as to the cause of the death of Jennie Mo- | Nance" which resulted in her body
 being exhumed last month, an autopsy performed and a chemical analysis | made of certain tissues and organs | The auptesy, the coroner says, did not | reveal evidence of disease sufficient to l cause death, and did demonstrate
 death was due to some cause acting l in subtle manner and leaving very l little evidence discoverable by the naked eye" The chemical analysis ] showed the presence of arsenic, lin i significant amounts"
 Second Husband Showed Same symp. toB1s.
 ! The coroner also says that Mrs. l Monahan was at this time living with i her third husband. ''her second (hus- | band having deceased after about ten 1 days tllness during which he had l symptoms similar to those which ex- l isted during the illness of Miss Mc- 1 Nance, with the exception of the par l alysis. He also was insured in a 1 benevolent order. his wife being the
 beneficiary"
 | Mrs. Monahan's second husband the i cor0ners' finding continues, was
 brother of her present husband, whom she married about a month after the
 death of her second husband. During 1 his illness." says the coroner, the
 physicians in attendance was pr. Paul | R. Stetson, and suspicion at that time existed that his death was not due to | natural causes. He died in November 1 1909, the assigned cause of death be- ! ing gastritis and exhaustion 1 Repeated Doses of Poison. | In his conclusion Coroner Mix says | that Jennie McNamee's death was 1 due to poison introduced into her | body In the form of arsenious oxide
 (whfte arsanic), and that it was in- l troduced by small repeated doses, the
 last being a few days before her death.
 T am of the opinion that Jennie Mo Namee's death was caused by the
 poison introduced into her body as
 said chemical examination demonstrat- 1 ed; that the same was administered
 to her by Annie F. Monahan and that 1 said Annie F, Monahan is cFimtnally responsible for said deaKh."