The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-03-20
HUSBAND PO|SONER
IN JAIL; SEARCH
lis MADE FOR MAN"
BILOXI WOMAN AGREES TO BE
SENT TEMPORARILY IN
ASYLUM.
THE SEER AND WEISS
NOW ARE BEING SOUGHT
Preliminary Hearing Is Deferred
affinity" and Fortune-telIer, Wom-
an Says, Are conspiring To Get Sew
eraI Thousand Dollars From Her
Husband Has Recovered and viii
Not Press Suit.
Special to The NetcS.

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Biloxi, Miss, March 20.-At a con.
ference held at the county jail here
this afternoon between Fred Warren,
! the Biloxi grocer, and Mrs. Warren,
who Is under arrest charged with hav-
ing tried to poison her husband Wed
nesday night, and Mrs. Warren agreed
to be placed temporarily in a hospital
for the insane. Two months will be
spent in an hospital At the end of
that time, it is declared if Mrs. War
rem is declared to be of sound mind,
Warren will sell out his business and
go back to Buffalo, N. Y.
At today's conference, Mrs. Warren,
stated that she had been rendered
somewhat mentally unbalanced and
irresponsible by the sorcery exerted
over her by the fortune tellers whom
she has been consulting for several
months past
Two lawyers were present at the
conference, which finally ended in the
reconciliation Of the couple.
Mrs. Warren will shortly be exam
ined by two physicians with the view
Of determining her mental condition,
as the law requires that a patient
must first secure a certificate Of in
sanity before admittance to the state
asylum can be granted
Search For "seer."
New Orleans, March 20.-Search for
the fortune teller and affinity in b.
loxi's alleged love poison plot" shift
ed to New Orleans today. Charges Of
conspiracy to defraud are threatened
against the seer and "other man."
Efforts were made by reporters, act
ing on "tip" from Biloxi, to find a
man named Weiss, alleged to be the
"other man" credited with prompting
Mrs. May Warren in the alleged four
attempts to poison her husband, Fred
Warren, Biloxi merchant.
Search also was made for a Mrs.
Abel, said to reside in Melpomene
street. She Is declared to be the for.
tune teller who last summer, according
to Warren, told Mrs. Warren to pay
more attention to the other man, as he
would treat her better than the hus.
band"
The only Mrs. Abel found on Mel
pomene street runs a boarding house
She denied that she was ever a for
tune teller or even knew the Warrens
The Biloxi "tip" said that Weiss, the
imam in the case" resided at Dauphint
and Cont streets here. None by thai
name resides in the neighborhood.
While reporters hunted for the af
finity and fortune teller, interest cen
tered in hearing of insanity charges
against Mrs. Warren. The husband
made an affidavit against her, hoping
to put her in sanitarium.
Preliminary hearing on the charge
Of attempted poisoning was deferred
yesterday in Biloxi. Mrs. Warren was
removed to the Harrison county jai
at Gulfport to await trial on the lun
acy charges.
Mrs. Warren told Prosecutor Ford
that the fortune teller and affinity
were conspiring to get several thou
sand dollars from her, rather than II
a plot to kill her husband to get his
estate.
Warren doesn't blame Mrs. Warren;
he says the affinity and fortune teller
are responsible, and that his wife was
under. their spell"
Warren has recovered. The glass
of water which Warren said contained
poison and part of which he drank
will be examined by chemists. The
hospital physician, to whom Warren
fed in his nightclothes on a street car
is credited with the statement that he
found traces Of poison in the contents
of Warren's stomach.
The spotlight is being thrown on
the past life of Mrs. Warren now. She
is native of Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs, Warren stated that recently she
made an open confession of her past
life to her husband, discriminating her.
self, and that she had told him every
thing.
Il held back nothing. 1t was a COM