The Washington times., 1920-09-29
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TAKES 3 LIVES.
Arsenic Is Found in Bottle
Found In Home OF Ken
lucky Family.

LEXINGTON. Ky. Sept 29.-That
the three children OF Carl Williams
prominent citizen OF Newport. ny.
were poisoned by arsenic placed In
their milk is the declaration made by
coroner's jury, The children were
Shirley aged four; Carl. aged two,
and Stanley, four months old. They
died In convulsions soon after drink
ing milk from a bottle delivered by
u dairy company.
Blaine Mclaughlin. prosecutor or
Campbell county. brought chemist
before n jury who swore the. milk
taken from the Williams home fol-
lowing the children's deaths had con-
tained q large percentage OF arsenic.
as his analysis showed. The coro-
ner's jury referred the case to the
grand jury for investigation
Mclaughlin made the following
statement: 9.
THE verdict OF the jury clearly
showed that a triple murder has been
committed. We expect to make ar
rests within the next week, and
already have several persons Under
surveillance. The crime is one OF the
most heinous ever committed In Ken
lucky. and county authorities and
myself will lay aside all other work
and make every effort to bring the
criminal to Justice"
Interest centered about the testi-
mony Of the mother. Despite cross
examination by Mclaughlin. Mrs.
Williams remained firm in a state
ment that to the best of her knowl-
edge only the two older children.
and Carl. had drunk the milk.
shortly after breakfast on the
morning Of the day before my three
children died." Mrs. Williams said. II
drank some of the milk myself. / no.
ticed that / felt i'll during the morn
ing, but did not think OF the milk at
the time. i did not call in any physi-
clan. as 4 begun to feel better about
noon.
Mrs. Warner. my sister. had charge
OF the children during the day and
had been giving Stanley. the youngest
child, medicine prescribed for him by
Dr., G. +. Sauter. Both i and my hus-
band noticed that Stanley had been
getting better during the day, and
we thought that he would recover. He
had been i'll about four days"
At this point in the trial McLaugh-
lin called Mrs. Warner to the stand.
He asked her what had become of a
medicine bottle from which the child
had been given doses.
II threw the bottle away few days
after my nephew and nieces died."
Mrs. Warner declared. She said she
thought that IT was OF no further use
after the deaths of the children.
Resuming her testimony. Mrs. Will
liams told OF the children becoming
i'll and of summoning DR.. Sauter and
his son. Dr. NJ. G. sauter:
'The children, during their infancy,
had been subject to spasms. and my
husband and l did not attach any i'm
portance to their sudden attack. Al
though i'll during the afternoon, Shir-
ley and Carl did not go into convul-
sions until shortly after 6 o'clock in
the evening. When both of them be-
came i'll we called the DOCTOR" she
said.
stanley. who had been subject to
stomach trouble since birth. grew
gradually worse as the evening pro-
gressed and seemed to lapse into un-
Consciousness shortly after 8 o'clock.
DR.. c. +. Sauter. who was treating the
two older children at the time, also
gave Stanley soothing medicine be-
fore he died. The death of our four
month-old baby was no surprise, as
he had been a delicate child and i'll
almost continuously"
Mrs. Williams betrayed no emotion
while on the stand. and told of the
death OF her baby and two other chill.
dren without hesitation and in
after -of-fact way.