Year: 1878

Re-Arrest of the Rer. III. III. Hayden--


Poison In Large Qantities Found In the


Stomach of the Deceased.


New Haven Special (Oct. 81 to Chicago Times.


Rev. Herbert Fl. Hayden, of Madison,
whose recent trial in Justices court
for the murder of Mary E. Stannard attract
ed the attention Of the whole country, was
again arrested this evening in Madison by
County Sheriff Bixby upon bench warrant
issued this noon By Judge Hitchcock, of the
superior court, upon an information sub
mitted by Judge Lynde Harrison, counsel
for the State, and signed by the State Attor-
ney 0. H.~Platt. He was at once brought to
the city, and now lies in the county Jail.
This new step in what must become one of
the most celebrated cases in criminal annals
was not surprise. Since Mr.. Hayden's
acquittal by Justice Wilson the case of the
prosecution has rapidly developed, and this
second arrest is the result of the dis
covery of new and most important evidence.
| Two eminent experts, Prof. M. G. White,
| of Yale medical college, and Prof S. w.
johnson, who holds the chair of chemistry
| in the Sheffield scientific school of Yale, have
been at work upon Mary Stannard's stomach,
and have found in it enough arsenic to kill
the whole community OF Rockland. where
she lived. This, the State claims, is the
quick medicine which Hayden told Mary he
had bought n Middletown when he met her
at the spring Tuesday noon and told her to
meet him in an hour and half by the big
rock, where her body was found. It will be
remembered bv those who read the evidence
that on the witness stand Hayden testified
that on that Tuesday morning in Middle
town he did buy at Tyler's drug store
an ounce of arsenic to kill rats with;
that when he got home he did not tell
his wife he had bought it because
she was afraid of poisons, but put it on
beam in his barn under the hay; that he
used none of it, and that it must be there in
an unbroken package. The States counsel
have looked for that arsenic, but cannot
ind it, but the chemists have already fond
| in Mary's stomach a mass of fifty or sixty
grains of arsenic wholly unabsorbed, to say
nothing of what was absorbed. Until Hay
den, to account for his visit to certain part
of Middletown, had to testify about buying
this arsenic, the State was at loss as to what
poison to look for. They had decided to
look for powerful abortion medicines, but in
this were hampered by the parsimony of the
town authorities and lack Of authority from
the State officers; but when they knew
what he had bought, their course
was clear, and Judge Harrison asked for de-
lay In the Justices court, to enable him to
complete tho investigation. Failing to get
it, counsel withdrew from that court, but
not from the prosecution of the case, and
the result shows their wisdom. The theory
of the State, in accordance with the summa-
rY of their excluded evidence, which has been
furnished the Times, is that Hayden gave
Mary huge dose of arsenic when he met
her at the big rock, having told her that it
was 'squick medicine to produce abortion;
that the introduction into her system of such
a quantity of this poison soon put her in
agony; that she shrieked with pain, and for
the first time seeing her destroyer's inten-
ton, and that he must have given her poison
she accused him of his treachery, and
started for her home to tell he1
friends before it should be too late; that
Hayden, fearing that she would reach her
friends, and expose him, and seeing that in
his anxiety to remove her from among the
living he has overshot the mark, felled her
to the earth with the blood stained stone
four d there and then cut her throat. Last


Thursday, under authority of the States at
torney, the chemists began their work on
Mary's stomach, which has been in Prof


Whites possession ever since the body was
exhumed. They were instructed to look fol
oil of savin, OIL of tansy, ergot, and
arsenic. Almost at the beginning
they discovered the combination produced
by arsenic and the sulphureted hy-
drogen, which is result of
decomposition, and very soon the grains OF
unabsorbed arsenic were revealed. Usually
such huge dose would be thrown off the
stomach Immediately after being given, but
IN this case it had remained. The States
attorney was put in possession of the facts
yesterday, and when these discoveries were
laid before Superior Court Judges Hitch
cock and Culvert they at once agreed that a
bench warrant should immf diately be issued


1t was issued, and the sheriff went on the
cars to Guilford and then by carriage to
Madison. On his way into the city Hayden
was as smiling and talkative as on any day
OF his trial. Counsel for the State claim
that now their case is sufficient for any jury.