Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-21
CARRUTHERS HEARING IS
SET FOR DECEMBER z.
Case of Husband, Charged With At.
tempting to Poison His Wife,
Ontfnucd I'm Police Court
POLICE INTERVIEW MISS MYERS
City Chemist Whitfield Has Not Yet
Completed Analysis Of Orange Into
Which Mrs. Carruthcr> Charges
He Poured Bichloride OF Mercury.

|
ruthers. ffty-onc years old. OF High
land Park. charged with attempting to
| poison his twenty -four-yoar- wife.
| Mrs Rose Wright Carru,hcrs WAS
called yesterday in Police Court. The
hearing was continued until December
IT the request OF Detective SerEcants
Wiltshire and Atkinson. who have
charge OF the investigation Eond in
the sum of $1,000 was required 10y Jus
ticc Cru,chticld 1t was furuistcd by
Gilbert Il. Pollock. Of counsri for the
defense The defense asked for n
| speedy trial.
The only statement which car
| ruthers would make was to the effect
| that II WAS a frame up on the part
| of his wife. For what reason he would
not say.
Its Il put-up job he said Il did
not try 10 poison my wife. Whether
any one put poison in her orange do
not know. II she WAS poisoned. some
one else poisoned her"
The detectives have been chasing
rumors since the arrest OF Carruthcrs
| on saturday night. Some OF these
rumorS have opened UP avenues oil in
formation Of considerable interest
while others have shed no light on the
case.
DETECTIVE INTERVIEWS
| MISS BESSIE MYERS
Last night Detective Sergeant Wilt
shire interviewed Miss Bessie Myers
| or South Adams Street Miss Myers
| VINO is sometimes known as Mrs r.
NJ. Carruthers. 1t first refused to give
amy information. stating that She knew
absolutely nothing about either Car
| ruthers or his wife.
| Finally. however. Ia reply to The
| direct question ii she had ever been
married 10 Carruthcrs. She answered
! that she had not. She said she lived
/ with CarrutherS and his mother for
| about two years. and that when she
left them. on July -. 1913. She con-
tinued to go by the name OF Mrs Car
| ruthcrs. She said she had not seen
aim since 1913.
There had never been any trouble
between herself and Carruthcrs. sh,
asserted. adding that he was a kind
| man. but that he couldn't be driven
into anything. She scoffed :, the idea
That he had attempted to give hichlo-
fide OF mercury TO his wife. stating
that man of Carruther's Intelligence
ana education especially along, medi-
cal lines. would not have employed
| su"h crude methods. had he really in
tended 10 do away with his Wife
SAYS SHE NEVER SAW
Mrs. ROSE CAHRITUERS
| When She broke with Carruthers she
s!:!d' IL was because OF his mother. She
| left them and went To Boston, where
she stayed Il week, and then returned
| To Richmond She had visited in car
ruthcrs's home in Boston ana had
| brought his mother back and attended
| her through her last sickness until a
| short time before she died Her efforts
we're never appreciated She said
She never saw Mrs. Rose Wright
CarrutherS, and therefore had nothing
agains, her. and said she did no, wish
| 10 appear in court as "a witness Ii she
were summoned. she asserted. she
! would say nothing either for or against
-, either one. She had hoped she had fin.
ished with the Who'll" thing when on
July IS, 1913 she walked out Of the
fiat and told him he could have the
| Nat and everything in il,
| city Chemist J. NJ. Whitfield has not
made fun report OF his analysis of
! the orange into which il is alleged by
Mrs. Carruthers the mercury derivativc
| was placed with murderous intent by
her husband on last Friday morning.
This report will show whether or not
there Was enough Of the poisin to have
produced death had all OF il been taken
by Mrs. Carruthers. and also what form
Of the drug was used
WAS MARRIED TO CARRITiiI:uS
IN SEPTEMBER. 1915
Mrs. carruthcrs. formerly the wife
of Hugh X. Land, from whom she was
divorced. was married TO Carruthcrs on
SEPTEMBER |. 1915. The ceremony took
place IN Washington. She has Il son
four years old by her first marriage
tarruthcrs was said to have been very
fond OF the lad. and yesterday in court
the boy asked:
Us daddy going TO mamma'S?'
| Since Carrutherss arrest on Saturda Y
night he has not been to the home en-
ccpt on Sunday afternoon. in company
with policeman, when he went TO &c,
fresh linen. Mrs. CarrutherS has beer
staying at the home Of her mother
Mrs w. T. Wright, in Highland Park
That the home life of the couple has
not been harmonious has been learned
by the officers, though Just what the
trouble is they have not definitely as
certained. According to Statements
made by Mrs. Carruthers. her husband
: is Jealous of nrr. and has made many
, accusations. which she declares are
false.
:, Their hat is neat and comfortable
I. and we'll furnished.