The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1872, Page 4

4 TNE GREAT POISONING TRIAL, TRE MELANCHOLY GROUP IN COURT. Highly Important Testimony of Dr. E. Warren. General Ketchum Died of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis—Not by Human Hands, but by the Special Dispen- sation of oi. BRIGHT HOPES FOR THE ACCUSED ANNAPOL! » Md, Jan, 4, 1872, Atten o'clock this morning the curtain was again | raised for another act tn the fearful drama that nas been for tive weeks before this people, holding large audiences cach day almost spell-pound as the varions scenes were beg enacted before them, and challengmg@ the attention of the whele country by its remarkable surroundings. ‘The same cast Of charactors were presented to-day as On each preceding day, the central figure, of course, being the gloomily-draped prisoner, sur- rounded by her group of ever constant friends, and having by her side that devoted daughter whose beart strings are bursting with grief and whose !ife 1s being sapp by the terrible sorrow that has come to her neretofore joyous young life, There is something so strikingly sad.in thia ltte group, from which the eyes of the rude crowd are rarely ever taken during court hours, that I feel in- cliued to rudely sketch its appearance as the cur- tain rises. For nearly five weeks I have sat face to face, just @ few feet in front of this little party, and its ap- pearance as it 1s formed each morning and dispersed each evening is truly impressive. MRS, WHARTON IN COURT, The central figure, she whose life depends upon the results of this contest of wit, logic and law, sits clad in deep mourning, a heavy crape veil hiding her features from the rude gaze of the idle curious, When she takes her seat her hands are crossed over her muff, and she sits all day Jong without perceptibly moving a muscie, Only Qnce bas she, since the trial began, spoken to her Qttorneys, her daughters, or any of those who sit aBout, anxious to relieve her wants or sufferings, She seems buried in her own thougais, and never changes her position, even When the scene vecomes @xciting and to her most important. HER DAUGHTER NELLIE, To. her leit that daughter, whose unexampled tenderness and devotion to her mother’s prison con- finement has gained? her the admiration of all who may know of 11, sits, the counterpart oi her mother In dress and appearance. Sho was once a beautiful girl, but will never be so again. ‘Chis terrible sor. row bas left an impression upon that face which willever remain, She has littie to say, but some- times speaks to those about her. she docs not change her position often, and when she does her every movement Is full of sorrow. ROSE NEILSOS Benina her sits that constant friend, Rose Ne!l. Rou, ever ready to say a word of consolation or pro- vide for her trifing wants during court hours, To her right and behind Mrs, Wharton sits a MRS. ROSE NUGENT, from Norristown, Pa., Mrs, Wharton's brother’s wile, almost as gloomily attired as her endangered relative, She is a fine-louktag, middle-aged lady, ind seems to feel very deeply ler sister's situauon, ext Mrs, Wharton and at her right 1s a prominent figure of this group. MRS, CRAWFORD NRILSON, Who has been to this lady a most devoted friend, She is by her side in the jail, inside the court halls, And seems never wearieu in attenuon to her wants aud happiness, AROUND THIS GROUP ire gathered several promiment gentlemen from Ittmore, Philadelphia and elsewhere, friends of the prisoner or relatives of those ladies who sit about her The other characters that make up the care, such as lawyers, judges gud court officers, have been heretofore described, and are such as are usually found in criminal trials of this magnitude, and the same that have from day to day appeared in this trial. ‘They ‘ere allon hand to-day when, at ten o'clock, the ourt met, aud the surroundings were as complete 8 Upon any previous aay of the trial, POLITICIANS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS PRESENT. Within the bar were seated, besides those whose juties called them there, several gentlemen of wominence in Maryland politics, who are here to Bitend upon the State Legisiature sessious, which begun yesterday. Charlies Ketchum, tne elder son of the deceased General Ketchum, whom Mrs, Wharton 3 Said fo have arr es was present, as also, & jarge number of medical gentlemen. Mr. Leo Kyott, States Attorney of Baltimore city, who Origmated this case against Mre. Wharion, Wag to- pe for the first time sce tho trial begun, sittin; with the Attorvey General, Outside the bar th commoners were gathered In such large numbers that Btandiug room wae hardly attainable, but in he space set apart for ladies there was} ttle room THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS Were pregnant with a great deal of interest, note heer te {he testimony was entirely medical, Dr. Edward Warren, the chief medical expert for the defence, was put upon the stand as soon as the Court met, and occupied it all day. At ton minutes after ten in the morning, the pre- Mminaries being over, Mr. Steele directed the Clerk to call Dr. Warren. That gentleman stepped for. Ward and occupied the witness box. He is @ fine looking gentleman, of about 0 irty years of age, and in his evidence gives | roof that he is @ man of great ability in Dia profession. His delivery was excelent, and he was listened to with great Interest during the entire time he was upon the stand, Mr. Stecle began the examination by asking the following question:—“Doctor, please state where you were educated and what bas been your osiiion in medical life, Also If you lave eurd the evidence of Pr. Williams, General etchum’s attending physician, as to his symptoms, Aud that of Professors Ohew and Mills, who per- formed the autopsy upon bis body, and please state Whether you think General Ketchum died from Natural causes, and give tue jury your reasons jor your conclusions, ‘ TESTIMONY OF DR. EDWARD WARREN, Professor Edward Warren testi ed as followe:— I reside tn Baltimore; am a physician, and have been en gaged In the Practice of medicine for ue twenty-two earn gradu jog rat Jo the Universicy of Virgiuta, then jn niadelphia and completed my studies abroai; before the war Iwas Professor of Materia MeJic Maryland; during the war i was Medi of General Lee's army and Surgeon Nor olina, my native State; after the war J held the Chair of Surgery In the Wasuingion University of Buitinore, but, tor rivate reasons, resigned that posicion fo April how devoting my attention to the practice o. m surgery; I bave heard the testimony of ail the mevical wit 8 for the State, except that of Dr. Miles, but have sead fhe oficiat copy of his evitience attentively; I can seu. ing. tp the semptot jescribed iu General Ketchum's rin the revelations of the post-mortem examination of bis body or in them Inconsistent with the operation of in the production of bis death. HAT THE PROFPESOR THINKS GENERAL KETOUUM DIED in the University of Lnrvector to Chief meral Car: ‘oF, suddenly and with nearly tdent! which, to @ certain extent € for the last tweive mont Lave seen men die ribed by ail tue moder Hics of keputation, especially by Reynolds, Tanner, N meyor, Aitken, Hunt, Bascomb and Hartshorn, and is knows as malignant’ purpuric fever, or epidemic cerebro spinal meningitis’ by tbo protession geacrally, i ‘A PARALLEL When I heard the symptoms of Gensral Ketchum Aetalled by Dr, Williams on the stand, I was reroind A torelbie manner, not only a fearful viseure by the author ome cages of 1k wich t come under my own prof at ofone which T attended In May lest in-consuitation with Dr. W. UW. Baitzell, of Baitt- re city ; the resemblance between these two cases—{hat Generki Ketchum and of Dr, Balteel's patient—Wwas ost remarkable tke ip the euddenness of their deveiop- eat, the violence of | their ermptome and. the | rae naty of their course; their identify was almost complete; oth were characteri by a conaition of sem!-anconscious- ese; an Increased ess of the surface, eo that they juddered or “sbi wD Lous oer rigidity of the muee! \ a toe neck, back and NOB | Con side iyo! tion; ine 5 an to iste ‘milar effect upon by St temporasliy{ congestion diew nlelligent—only eame om meen! n, improve: ry rized. by profound die: Lat r ir ‘vous sys inning will ae ana aoe ates yt spect Pcoeanilag. rl of the neck, end lower éxu faction of the earbuds aed ga se fee caurtace and clamm: oud me ‘the ini Bus! Beta” toch ja pen, motor Wo eahout ol vad pa the ves it NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, ibited in this connection. And ao, aiso, wills heard the raps on the sidewalk; that sho was inning to to the cireulation, sedation of the heart, especially t¢ be sufocated with amoke and got up and walked towards profound oF protracted, must tevitably inducy nervons con- . the noise; she stated distinctly and positively that neither eations of a decided character throughout U Shrove nor Farrington had any knowledge of her going to the ches that It isa disease of tie most rapid ‘a truth, the most decided and dangerous of th: store; she told me that Shreve boarded with her and offered velopment and speedy issue; the fulminant or expiosiye | iuciient to ant \d show me the place a Torm runs lis course with terrilvo ce ‘ity, hur wha the | are dus tothe , bed at 181 Greenwich treet ‘she showed me where “ strongest and most athletic to a fearfnl ¢ through | which results m (he accumulation of venous Lioed within | * hia coat was when she took key trom tt; | woke yofthoone bang in hovers | Supposed Attempt to Bern Op | pais iat parciny rest; he Soned ime what was ths donly tn the midat of apparent health, ao that “aomotimen the ravaded that no haa not been w fe maya that “in the fulmin lady the onact i& without premonition ; appearances exh ene Lwent with her and found the ordeal of the ym pli joneribed ; it | thom, tho duratto i is, in facl, stated In Reyno'ds’ yf re of thin n of the development of the aad he piel 4 Je extinguished | Other, Forthe same reason a similar congestion must be alter, and I tol to get up, that I wanted him, as bi hess oflis adveat aud the capidiy of is te | Geveloped in viher organs, and also in the right side. of a Woman. Plage wa op, fir; and io got ‘ub and deased bingo, put scarcely recedent in the history of disease; it strikes with. the heart--wherever venous radicala are fouad rer} a3 “yer What have +4 been doing Gut watnin, and kia mimoat wii tho celery of the most | wnt dark blood sireulaiea, These, are, wot simply Se Oat Re ee id eka tatl ue i was Jin, bore Sepes it haa prevaile ui el 3 ey are the "ul of toxicology, 5 + se Tknow tuis'tact not only (rom what Luave seen myself, bat. | a ee en ttl low of ie eats win | Starling Statements and Extraore | wanted ie set a revolver and blow, her brains out tyre. tras alluded to and dlacusaca as sigh'tn tne Medical Socters, | ay fey be dt as a tose dinary Complications. Matte a ied to Turow hervelf over my head, so” was alluded to nud discussca ae s..ch In fc thas oper oxic 5 Of which Tam a member, and yet, although it be due to some lesions which it induces in the y P SOHN A. McDONALD. Beewine fermen. which enieen (ho blood and ‘am constrained to the opinion that. Gen: : JACKSON B. SUREVR, i fuld not have died from the effects of that ~ pomnnnnnete being duly aworn, doponea and saya—tllve at Ist Greenwich tissues, rathor than 4 fountain of heaith and for the following reisone:—First, he could not lave street; have lived there since December 1; previous to inat lived in Williamsburg; lived with the same person in Wi!- lng with aow in Greenwich. streat— r two years next March; her all that time; she kept a boardin: roo! it other th ence teaches (hat the a; best prepared for its Invasion poisoned with ft on Saturday night or on Sunday night, " by all these clrcumst: nee an faligno of body, excite. | as allege, for it ts in evidence that alter eating Yor the as’ | Finding the Fire and How It Began—The M ment of mind, Irregularities of diet, which. are calculated in | time on those occasions he set up for some time, smok ed and themecives to'lowes the toue of the vical powers, strange to | talked quiolly witn his frieud, retired without complaint, ant | chaat's Story—Zud of an Old Business—The relate, was not disturbed for some hours afterwarcs, ‘Tartar emetic jived pri TUE FULMINANT OR RXPLOSIVR FORM Ov THI DIB- | 8 NOt ouly one of the most powerlul, but one of the most Arrest at Cold Springs—Fixing the Re. nd ‘a brother; one sister, Jane Paar pron t of known agents, When it acts at all it acts quickly, sibility—Fortune Telling—Black- lives tn Myrtle avenue, Brookryn the brother, that variety which is 60 specially characterizca by violence @ delay in this fatal to the theory of poisoning at spon ity —For' ing: lac] Henry Waste, lives in Hicks street, Brook: ay) the other of symptoms, rapidity of march and fatality of termina- hat man smoking, chatting and asler; D Mook Doctors— sieter, Clara, bas goue to Cleveland; Harriet Wiison pre- tion—(requeatly leaves no lesion in the body of its polsonous dose of tartar emetio in i mailing Dodges— tends to bea victim of suiicient gravity to tndicate the cause | stomach isan absurdity. He also dresses himself and walk R d iri SPIRITOALISTIO MEDIUM of death; it kills without waroing and without having jhe yard, an act utterly inconsistent with that ex- Pugilism and Spiritualism. never saw her 4 that was @ a line upon any stracture or organ to teil how its (atal wor ration which einen olsoning private one in buffalo; Lat Farr has been on has been do: under some circumstances the most accu- | with this agent. Second, be could not have been ipolaoned on intimate terms with Harriet rears next March; te and exhaust ortel noth | Monday, as alleged —first, for the roason that when Dr. Wile he introduced me to her; he has lived with her ever since, Tate and extaustivewostmorsem examinations reveal a0th- | rng daw hoe he war alting up and holding ersiopbucces | On Wednesday night last o policeman belonging | except” “occaslonally gowg, home” to ‘his tara, sain perhaps, annie aight oongestions of ihe merve contra, | between hie knees.” neliher of whioh igreconcfable with the | 1 the Third precinct, on golng his rounds, found | WM, 9 lire 10, Jane, streets the, st ud thelr etvelopes; thus Radellfe (page blz, Reyaolde’ | theory of antimonial pomsoning, ‘as no fainting man volunta- of any’ trouble’ between” J. Farrington Gress Oe Mines Ten We areaNe nc ns Oe | Ocean Mere RTS Rie Te Late nad is it | mieke, MBI: SRGtB SRR preeslnes NO} Rl DENISE Tfoand hace ust waved ‘her’ from Sends sree Murchison recurda'a case In which “no apprecianie ientons | ® vessel (h the manner described does not show. that Street. He had at first passed the store and tried mm, to @ piace in Chrystle street, in tl o item which is inv the door and found it fastened, but on leaving the had been with other men, aud he w: ‘overed;" Dr. Lyons desoribes & form of ti that she membranes of the brain or apinal cord could be dis- | Found loss of power In the muscular 8 per eget: prevailed in Dublin in 1568, atid waa “characterized by col- | Cause he was relieved Ly creosote and lime water, which are | place and going farther down tho street he saw that a disease wich rae oe ek, Sean, Sees ee, oot him, and swore he should ovar'icave aoag, Ac grout rapidity of course, excessive fatality, and 1, elther chemically or physivlox! | 9 fire had started in the building. The alarm was have quarrelled off and on ever since; Far- the alwence of anatomical lesions in \ which must have proved only topical anmatheti ringtou came to my store last ul; at before I closed up; after death,” Hartshorn confirms the Vs writhout neulralising the oh mon ey Ble stompacl or counter: given, and the firemen, with te police, soon came | ne i, sick mpm cy bee sexes eat (4 had (Xy3 tt actin e destructive effects of a ortion whic! ve and he wasn't goin stay ere was colng 1e Renee ate eae ae ee seme? | atroady been absorbed (n the blood: and third, such a suppo- | UPOM the ground. On making aneffort to get into | Now tingland Hoter to alcep; {cloned the store.» few min- fave in the explosive (eultotnants form of the disease;” in | sition is entirely preoinded by the spcedy and completedisap- | the store & woman was discovered close to one of | utes after six; went directly home; I did uot go out again 3 0 ‘ earance of the effects and consequences of the supposed % ext to buy some coal at the grocer's: wag gone but'a few OF tutatemoa hon witha the akull oft apinal canal eiing | texte agent, under elrcumstanoes unprecedented inthe kiaory | the windows, who was suffocating from the smoke | Minutes; wien I got home T found Harriet Wilson walling conce tes that in some cases the evidences of oorebro spinal | of such poisons, pia, he could not have been poisoned by | in the place. They up anddown the room with a ptece of bread in her uand; meningitis are wantig after death; In a reoent discussion — tartar emetic on Tuesday, because noither the local nor re- ahe was under INFLUENCE OF LIQUOR, he was raving about Far- befure the ‘Academy of Medicine in "pitiadelphia, the fre. | mote CE pred showed themselves in any form, notwith- + DRAGGED HER THROUGH THE WINDOW Ne produced, when fcom any cause that emetic’ ts brought in and I told her to he well and HE standing his continued impression by some morbid cause and I thought partially deranzea once of pathologioaljenicns Jn the most fatal form | during the enuiro. day, and forthe additional consideration | 224 Drought her into the air, but 1¢ was some time | *he cn titenlencd, to take. his De 's disease jurin, toll ‘and though various theories wore | that the ph ot think thatthe phenomena which did present themselves were in- | before she recovered. When she was taken to the | guist and made her li own (F frat ‘not vory well and sree tre beencetene as west te hate Fiero was agither Demag, the, thrdat ‘nor paia in ha, | Station she was in & nervous, exoitoa condition, | enced ‘when I told her to be quiet or 1 would leave satan Oc taaaage Petree Woareiertog | pas: Toru eestor dsleciedmaliare yore found in Ud) et eevee, Maem MuLTAAKGIRALE alalamapea ooncorn. | th uouee; tg ned annozed me he sare, waz ihe prarite de multiplied indefinitely by, culling from the journale [he | vessels of lils oom, and ae was connned to hie cbamber | ‘tho origia of the fire that the police at once ae had. aj 1 anally by the most 1 parties; by men of the | during the whole timo, There highest attalaments in science tilled in the | fainting. and no complete prostratiot arto! conduoting post-mortem ubthe occasion | Muscular system, since {tis proven that he sat up went to sleep; was o up ‘some 4 ee orca Ae Fo coe § deciaed upon retaining her, and the developments oe ee eee brat sg fa i = Selling d waiked | Drought out at the examination of the parties con- | into mine, and I could see tune was dressed ; I concinded ities before men- | “bout when it was necessary tu do s0, There was no coma she bad out after Farrington, aa she had done such reliable Known to tho pro: | OF Tigldly or convulsive movement or soltnem of the aur- Racigmpetfintantns Pipi rah Abarth oka bafta things before; 1 wi f ‘1 feanion; thls, absence of pathologica! leslora is not peculiar face, and, n fast, uo symptoms, conmesting {hemeeves with | a ie § Y | awakoned bye tan com MY BED: to cerebro spinal mea i at-mortem exami one in : Ny a : Heit ten a tata eclepsye sunsicokee chorea hywterig, | torpidity of the mental faculties and Unateadiness of gait in | Of the place from the pocket of the Proprietor ANd | ho was in citizen's clothes, and asked ms it ‘my name was infantile convulsions, &c., have, over and over agafn, been | Walking, and, to complete the disparity, there was nore- | had gone there ina Shreve, and sald he wanted as my store was on fire; I aitended with purely negative results dundaney of the urinary secretion, but, ‘on the contrary, FIT OF JEALOUS FRENZY fot up and dressed myself; aaww Harriet and an oftcer: in ‘These olrcumstances, taken {n conjunction with the fact | there were suppression and retenti rn of urine in a mosl re- e other room; wuen I put on my coat | felt for my Key and that the spinal canal was not opened, and that the cor: ble degre established by the testimony of the only | to burn up the building and destroy herself, In her | found LB face ene; ate areas eater ae ee a ae rtunity of 2 PE egg p wan Myoisoned ty antimony opt day, excitement she stated that she had goue into the | tions; I at once conciuded that she had ‘an ed In toxicology {8 # fallacy, ° - BRC FIRE TO THE STORR fo near, © cy, store and had lett the key in the door, locking her- Lust id jo have revenge ou Farrin, ; presume she su that Peo ee Have begt eieaneg neon and | weit in; but later sie corrected this avowal and said | koladan interest in-thecetores ahe aa Heart Parana ince e fire in Decem| 16 on , for reasons oqnall jotent and 70 “ and I talk about the insurance 4 ipabie. I have shown tu another connection, that tne | St@ Could not account for the key betng in the lock | init; Ttnink that she set the store on fire at that time and rmptome which were observed on that day were essentially | While she was inside, with the door fastened upon e has since been in the store and destroyed some booka tf two or three days before the previous fire I examined only for the distance of some two inches, hav moat important bearing in this case, as will be presently de- | gard. If, then, h monatrated; the history of General Ketchum’s {lines and | every precedent death corresponds then in every part with the | tho criteria of | wy phenomena observed by me in Bal are. Four descriptions which have beea he disease by the ablest authors; in fact, it seems to me, after a caret candid examination of this whole matter, that If an attempt $ those of epidemio cerebro spinal meningtils, such aa T have TT art pap Fae se a care One renee Icley Cr cereree Mpinal | Goon in oltier Instances, and as are Fraphucaity described by her, ‘The business carried on at this place 4s au old | jefe my store key on the mantel in her room; did not. see it ture and phenomena uo more olfectual mode could be de- | all inodern authors, ‘The diferential diagnosis between the | established one, but the present Proprietors have | again until Clea) the fire; on the Sunday on which the fire msburg in the atter- morbid phenomena which characterize that diseaso and the Weel ton and I went to Wiill Yitod than to give an elaborate and Lee oareure ot | Spnaptorns iadicaiive. of anumonial oluoning ‘can ‘be de- only been there about two years anda half <Ac- 3. ot hom Mo « litte after, and Far. fatal termination, nad to ad Unaivin accordance with ihe | termined with almost absolute, precision in thiscage, The | cording to the statement of Bir, Shroeve, who is the | fingen told her that he was golng home that night, and he Pesnlon ing anatousiest loslone of au iaporingt tharseter | Weanesday "morning, ‘notwithstanding bis" cou- | Presumptive owner, it 18 a sort of crockery and | to tell ‘me the store had been set, on ire; he uaked were discoverable atter death; many of the aymptoms | dition of semiuncons he | glassware auction store. A large stock of goods has | me {f Se had igen Garten ote a which haye been referred to may be present in various at. | Was with so mugh alffleuity mn heen’ kage there: to ly email dealera ab Oe oe eee gy cle tag Bait name aa are feotions, for there. are multitudes of maladies, natural and | Ing aad loud appeals, a decided shiver passed over his frame | been Kept there to supply small dealers about tne he either took it from her trunk or ‘from benind It; non-natural, which, at some potuts in their ‘history, and | When the physictal and was simply placed upon him, de- | city, put after thi fre Thad the look ‘oe ‘my at lore Sor changed, be- ly at their climax, present a close saalogy toeach | monstrates the existence at that time not of preternatural AN AUCTION IS HELD cause I thought some one bh x oan ey and had gone ‘Dut it is only in this particular connection—in cerebro | insenalbility of the akin, but of cutaneons hyperasthesia—a 4m and set the place on fire; do not think 2¢ was this woman inal meningitis—that they are found grouped and blended | Symptom which has never gocurred In a single instance of | there every week, When large portions of the stock | shout two weeks afier I changed the lock I lost my key an a8 they appeared tn General Ketonum's cave; in other | antimonial poisoning sinco the discovery of that metal, and | 16 sig, a Mr, Farrington, one of the principals | {0%,°! Smoking tobacco, from my pocket: mnisied these avoclations they are anomalies, while in thu connection | wich tn numerous outbreaks of mennigial fevor hasbeen | 470 HON A Man Moa en Labo SEED BREN em SUR 1 rome en Meemt aE STAT at etetiah Macs atve snareateeaerecimnse’ | "ike adtional ctrewmataneer Unt “we attempted to gat out | 10 tte Presewt case, purchased the business from | fhg'* had'*"taten "iuem—my "Ker | And’ tabacco- Teeter few aucterenaiict nary crmmorsnai pre | SUP Sra nd arity erate of hi ot ane | Che origina iounders Of tue inetintion ioe nie om, | om\me Poms Slat oasis Saageemd fossa ny esse> gent ee luyariao a = (Ler fp sowing the Nitens ot nOFroaL contr cto wer fn, such hb, he wished to put into some int of business, bout a week after that I ordered a whether they be Uritants OF Darootion, OF both, corabine He ielerrctn reed jos yrece Bok rigid or conrulsed, an ne son, not succeeding as wellas Mr. Farrington LOOK PUT ON THR DOOR, ol paconeee Eee Pinimie ceret Heat Gea link in the ohain of proof oll ‘associates the morbid con- | ©XPeCcled, he took the control of it into his own | and on the same day my, key was found 23, ta of the ee. pre i cis otek | She oie Mata ta soenect mechs etait foce | NANG. This kind of commerce betng vinsuted to | FAUT tacetse Kaka Phan at we tg tolovtet cerebro spinal fever present rah tee ee ae bearie {iblished between it and tae ‘action of this or any other pois. | the habits of Mr. Farrington, he disposed of the | every day; I told one of my erst that a would give lt formand being—approximate to uulformity in the | OnOUE agent, And so also in regard tothe fact that be | place to an re STARS: euccna mtn: atronee a tes Sertainty of their occurrence and in the order of theft aucces- | Sbraded his throat and abdomen, appaxontiy in the effort to OLD FRIEND NAMED SHRERVE, oe nyo was mundo fan, etore was ectored aad sion; they constitute a group ora chain of morbid phe- | remove some source of irritation fn thease pai f ‘he really F CA ireppiy rete licie Co homenn to peculiar and exolusiva as acarcely to adroit at a | jenced pain at that time an to relieve itin the | who has conducted the place ever since. A fire oc- some be bap i Err phi * manner described, that circumstancelafforded strong conti : around the office; T could not account for this, but ai now the clinical history of nie fearful matadys. those considera: jon of the exience of menuiginlgever, and almost p curred there In December, but that was put out be: | of the opinion that Harriet Wilson took the key from my Hons, atrengthened and intenstied, as they are, by the facta | tive proof agaluat ani pronial Polsontn ,Newrnigle ata 9 fore any serious aamage had been done, That fire Rewer nee asioep and entered the store; the glasses aires pussies ive’ rencite, a Some eruiee: concomitants of this fection, and ft {s far more rational to | the proprietor, Mr. Shreeve, thinks was started In CONTAINING LIQUOR ves purely ni t ot conclude t he was ableto appreciate and to respond to are not auch as ave used in the store; I think we have some fer Seen und healthy auccum> as readily | thom when in acondition of inconsclousness than that he | ‘We fame way as the prosont one, and this they | ir'stock; was in the oliee Just before leaving Jatt cvening a rh influence; that fatigue of mind and body, together with | should fee), under such circumstances, the local irritations | think 18 the work of the woman, When the police | had been there all the afternoon; no liquor could have been * | produceablo by an agent which had been administered to him, brought In without my knowledge; there w: Uuuaual Imduigenes in food and drink, prodfaposo to It inva | Brooches 1,4 Aictment on aevoral oseanfoarewitn iar | ald firemen went in there on Wednesday night they | tainife wine, sanding on the window {ed was attacked, the potential tafuences of epidemictty con- | Purity when periectly conscious and infinitely more sus- | found a fire had been started in two places—in the | office, and also a bottle of cough medicine, spired to produce the disastrous Feault, under the concision, ch tumpressions. | Tue movements alla ed to | rront of the bullding and in the private office at the | which I had used in taking the medicine more probably automatio—mere t | x unless an ink bottle not only probable but almost inevitable, that he died front nad hadnoctinical siguifeanes: ? ° | rear. In this office they found a quantity of he “ 0 private papers there t2 my knowledge OG etl of mime nerarel es ry He, co | that he bad eewhier OF PAPERS STREWED ABOUT Ape ante P Aes ey stare most advanced science ; by the cr! whether and that though none was | the ground burning, tho drawers of the desks all Fe; 1 paid Farringt inital, consecutive or dual; by the standards of development, is of his chamber, hii pulled and the entire surroundings looking very | notes for Interest in the busl ogress aud conclusion, as established by the critical ob. | bladder was not pretermaturally irbed—in other words, | suspicious. The fire, such as it was, the fremen | cured; think I have a stock of $1t ferration of the ableat oliniclans; by the requirements of | Lg tliat pane tach nn myo urine completes the | soon extinguished, and then turned thelr attention | 24 this insurances Gee tas Guree faye the and the _mtcrose: the hands. o} | 5 * - scale! an the qinleroscope (a ihe (banda of competent | crlinination vetween the malady {tor which he actualy died | (the Parties belonging to the place to find out | frs."it" iy in my own mame, whether it had really been the to ‘me; have ade no, transfer WORK OF AN INCENDIARY have known Mr. Farrington‘ twent or au ordinary casualty, The policeman who had | the time in New York; he was then first discovered the fire toox the woman to the res- | tion and commission business s T was idence of the proprietor. Me was found in bed, | We have been associated together, in and when roused up seemed astonished that thé | Uehave been engaged in it more or key of the premises was absent from his custody. | fy acquainted’ with Collins, ‘the pugiiist; have He endeavored to explain to the police the mystery Prag her speak of him; never sa’ ‘him or of the affair; but he has not yet been abie to satist; Biliy Edwards at her houso; have no acquaintance with the authorities. The man from whom he bought thom; never heard of them bejng arrested at her house; the place 1s the one who backed Farrington was acquainted with ling and Kowards; COLLINS, THE PRIZE-FIGHTER, never saw Yarrington whe them Del opces ce wate when ho went to Cola Springs for nis battle with | farkels saloon, in Monson, sree POOkin, last Aprily Edwards, and ts a sort of amateur sporting man of | {n May she lived in Church street. i that type. When the authorities of that locality JACKEON B. SHREVE. ‘went in to stop the fight it the principals Lafayette Farrington, being duly sworn, deposes and ox] the lact convulsion, in ail {ts phases, bearings and colbina- | #04 the antimonial polsoning to which It is alleged that he tions, {lustrates nothing more vor less than a typicalexample | Succumbed, Of that form of cerebro-spinal fever to which the name of ful- br edleshotngat bet ine SImgged minaut has been s0 apuly prey, ‘as indicating the sudden ness be ete bape ap (ot we hogy, ron of its invasion, the inl of ts phenomena, the rapidity loc te Grins amaatie bee or Fie suxrol antl the fataltiy of ise Certnit death poisoning by tartar emetic and all the other _ moo com ‘ill explain the history of | tacorles which nave beeu advancod in connection with the Neath; nothing elocwill, adequater ac. | 289; it Is far more probablo that a natural disease should rhe facts which Nave been ‘detailed ivthis case; | Dave terminated fatally, under the circumstances, without pecially oopiam | leaving lesion than that the non-natural ageut should have pence with both | Bad such an issue as the reaultof its action; cerebro spinal iheotectiawhick | meningitis, Iu its fulminant form, has often, hurried ite vic- tims to the grave without the development of any pathologi- 61s true of many other elicited by th hange whatever; and the ai maladies well known to the professions. It fsa matter of physical imposalvility, however, that In @ case of tartar emetic polsontng, characterized by such symptoms as were present in this—and with so remarkable a clinical history— Tt unnecessary to cive more than a passing notico to opium in thia connection, for it has been demonstrated that he dtd not die from ap overdose of that drug, although { think it more than probable that he was arcotized by It to a cer- is } tatu extent «t one period in the history ot © tn ovher bould have proa d death in the maoner de bed, ad arr a! Y - her id don lescribed, with- dC says—} livo at 49 Jane street; am not engaged in any business: Words, there ie certainly nothing Inconsiatent in the armD- | Snctue development of wnowivoeal tesioas in the orgeniam; | wey found Collins concealed under the bed of the | Ect ‘war formerly engaged in crockery & ware busi: ab bypothes heen : had it been applied to the skin of a healthy subject aa of Case, and Who has for some time b x ness at 60 Barclay street; took the business my son and nye wO GLENS OF TORONING FROM ANTIMONY, or in such quantities aa {t 18 alleged to have been introduce Mtr ime been the acknowl- | Mr. Seixas; kept it but a short time; paid up the debts of the and cla cousernently speak adviseliy ia resard to the | !mto the stomach of General Ketchum, dectied inflammation | edged spouse of Farrington. One of mar. Farripg- | old concern and finally sold it t Mr, pareve ‘on the 38d of sym foe ainoh tt produces. Thave also aaiied faith, | Would have been the result; and yet, notwith- | ton’s favorite haunts ts & place called Sovember last for 68,000~ part cdot an in notes not Tilig AAs cases Of mutlmoutal poisoning which are reported | standing It known irHitant properties, — th THE “ARBOR” IN HOUSTON STRRET, Hecured in any way; have jo lien on, the stock-and no aaatan- by Taylor, Chriaieon, Wormley” and otters, Tnmy juig. | Petes sensation teviioses of Ree Ioeal | J7ufot.d# almost entirely the LOUNgiNE DIACE Of oR | at ot a a He aes ad gout wilt wave cans re 3 instance, nothing was e8 but some scatter. “red patches,” such as are frequently produced by the most Innocent causes or as result from the mere act of dying or as are developed not a single produst or re- cell proliferation fignters, pugilista and characters of that descrip- 5 } won, with thelr aamtrera He is 8 man of appar | {i ,Seny iim’ Wi Eisenwics accel, | "PRs M e a -five years 0 very dark com- ARRIET TACKLEBURY Plexion and by no Teens a prepesusating cast of | she gooe by the ‘name ‘of Harciet Wilson Fl Tihink she is Seon ninennte ee tt im Fiend rirctered is en “td bemgihe 4 ree eet id three be even less attractiv an Pal on, although o | intimate with her n Mitch older man. The woman who las been the Tel WED ber, but obo has-queee freaks at tmes-—balvoy cause Of 80 much excitement and trouble isatnin, | 71884 Cone oy urge A CRAZY WOMAN; nervous-looking person, evidently exceedingly @X- | bas followed me in the street and drawn a pistol on mi citable aud somewhere in the region of thirty years. | modium; she bas given exhibitions here under the name She first met Farrington in New Yors, and tarough Tacklebury, but not since has been with me; I wa: SONE MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCE the house No, 181 Greenwich street yesterday afternoon ; she he followed her to Cleveland and by promises in. | acted kind of gover would not let me go eh the house duced her to come to New York and take tho place | $H#, gsked, me to, ect her Sad “Shacked it of his discarded wife, according to her statement. e ash barrel and men “hee house; this was At the time of his meeting with her she wasa spirl- | about six o'clock; I went to Sbreves’’ store and tual medinm and was giving sittings throngh the | told him I was going away; then I came up town to Charles’, country. This business she has since tried to re- | at00 Houston strect, ‘The Arbor;’* had been negotiating to sume on several occasions, but Farringtom has dis- | buy the place for a gentleman and went to get Lis answer sitaded her from it aud ‘made her remain in quiet | Wetethe Bomerey took Beales, eecee aoee tates life, ‘The Fire Marshal held along examination of | New England Hotel; got there abont eight o'clock; stayed all the principal parties concerned in the affair | around wie while, probably al ont alt an hour or 80, ana yesterday, and the aMidavits sworn to before him | then went to y room was No. 15; left the room about are as follows: fix or, halt-past dix thie morniog: didn't know of the nre No. 60 Baroray Sreeer, Jang, 172, | Will Tot to the store, between seven and eight o'clock ; the wily and County of Xe York —Vatrick J, Conte, belag a a THAT WAS BURNED orn, denoses and sayt am an Oficer of police, at- yntained m: rate papers and she knew the fact; the tached to the ‘Third. precinct; was on. Guty last nights from | Gomtained My Prete OA ee ney ee wwoneneee hace Six to twelve, on Barclay street, from Broadway to West | opened and letters taken away ; found some bread and meat Street; I discovered this tire about eleven o'clock ; came up | there one morning since the first fire; never could account West street, on right hand side, and was trying my doors; | for it; this was before the store was entered and papers de- tried the door of No, 60 and found it secure; am sure it was | stroyed; don't think she had been drinking yesterday after- Secure; I smelled burning straw; could see no signs | noon; she didn't look like it; she does drink sometimes but of fire; passed along and stopped about the street; pretty soon Wa little from the crating farthest west and then from the reur grating and went down again; rap twice and Ofllcer Jolly camo to my asi en the officers were to send out tbe are eee pies ching for him at Cold Spring dre socee (ee bes in ARD ALA 5 her room Collins was not found there; I don’t think Harriet before I got to the station house; was back in, I should think | would have d this thing if ‘she had been in about twelve miuutes; when 1 returned the place was open | her right min he has atiemptea to poron herself and a fireman and two officers were carrying out a womant | on two occasions; when J was at the house yesterday there We sat her up in a doorway; she opened Ler eyes and trled | was a man by the name of Davis with me, no one wise; he to talk but couldn't talk’ so that we could understand | remaiaed about twenty minutes to half an hour; 1. was about her; we then took ber to the etation house ona shutter; | three o'clock; he went there with me for the purpose of do- think she spoke after she got there; the officers who were | ing business of a private nature; T don’t know bis christi carrying out the woman were Jolly ana Jackson; I looked | name; be {8 a lawyer; Mrs. Wilson did not sigh any papers fn the store through a hole in the shutter; eaw no evidence | then to m: Epewncest pe went there to fee that a tar emetic, for the action this drug, even | action in this in the most polsouous — dos and with ‘@ due | {5 ailowance for évery anomalous symptom which hi ng been recorded tn condection with it, cannot account for U phenomene which were obacrred inthis case elther before or after death, elther for the symptoms or the patholica 5 Ferelations aa described by the witherses for the State; w ot of progence pg ager der nat nciedans tartar enietle is wken into the stomach of a Kaman Geing lt | heofsre"donmmaaicted ny a poate tack eleainared in thid Dreducrs ether neal on remo ebeut, of bol comptued;, | therefore, contradicted by a ponte tact, eliminated tn the local effects manifost themselves in the form either 0 sotlon ; agains {rritation oF tnflammation, followed by some Change Of | or ye ee ea Wane Pa taseod with structure, in the parts with which ft comes in contact, and | Of the heart of this poor man, if Le really were polsoned with though frequently not developed on account of the rapidity | &8timony, must have Wile. tee MuerOun arbetonns os peak with which the drug is ejected or wbsorbed, they must be | 0% bis entire syste igh pra ech nol the measure of the in- ive hyperemia; and yet, contrary to the plainest precepts of physiology and physics, as well as the experience of the most reliable authorities, th jungs are found perfecty normal, there 1s no accumu'ation of dark blood in the right side of the heart and no congestion is discovered in any organ save the brain, and that, too, of the moat insignificant character; in_m word, passive conger- ) ons of a most marked character should, in tne very nature of things, have been found everywhere, espectally in the | lungs and nerve centres, while the aut ay revealed them nowhere save inthe pia-mater and in the brain substance, to an excee limited extent, if at all; for, according to Avdval, Rakliausky and Niemeyer, accummiation of blood in e referred to {s an extraordinary phenomenon of dying, while the “punctiform spots npon the cut rfxee of the cerebral substance,” ved in this {n- ‘nee, have but litte value as proofs of previous hyporvernia, and “depens tar more on fluidity of the blood than on the fulness of the veasels."” (Niemeyer, vol. 11, page 158.) The results of the post-mortem examination were emphatically egative, as the State's witnesses unbesttatingly adirm, and that fac: completely destroys the theory of antimo- mal | Polwoning in, this cage: | for the “srmptome ich" presented themselves before death, — together symptoms, considered ia the order of thelr occurrenct bot “4 7 ‘ he ligut of their distinctive differences, are pri- | Th, tie MnONe Mistory OF tae ares gpeclutel mary, intermediate and consecutive; of these the first are is changes In General Ketchum's body which woud or of ules 5 contact with the mucous coat of the stomach or intestines; at frequent Intervals or for protracted periods, as {8 evi- denced in the cases of chronic polsouing with ‘antimon} warch havo been reported, and in those instances in which | vomiting has not occurred and the process of absorbtion has | been interrupted; taking into consideration th perties of antimony, ne illustrated by fis eit fie skin and tongue and the intrinsle’ delicac’ bility of the mucous membrane, It may be terms that the amount and extent of ‘the inflanmal - guiced by fue presence in the stomach and Intestines must ear @ direct. proportion to the length of time which it has remained in' contact with thom, and to the fre- uency and amount in which it has been administered ; the logal effects are niso illustrated by a yecwiar, burning pain tthe mouth, throat, stomach an@ bowels, spasmodi Contraction of the fangs and gullet and py the deatrnction o! epithoiiam of the tongue and mucons surface general with whieh {t comes in contact; the remote effects re from its absor blood and its subsequent actic upon the nervous sysiom and upon the organs which elimt- nate jt; they may, therefore, be classified into nervous and iar phenoinena, according as they are developed In n with the structures above mentioned ; the nervous ‘2 uree doors up | is nota habitual drinker; she drinks hot ram when she can smoke coming | get it; she las been to tle saloon opposite the store and M 8 known him about developed vecatise of its action as a special sedative upon Dene albceeered a the paryaguin. nerve, and manicest themseives in disturd: | #BeVitAbiy been discovered after death. in x most posi ances of the di ne meningitis or some Kindred disease, with no precedent the beart and of the lungs; the second, result from a p Pathological ‘chaners of sufictent. gravity and permanence is aoe t conr lepreauion of tiie eolnncere wustee | to be appreciable after death—for a condition precedent to 4 profound depression of tife voluntary tnusci- | nutrition may be precluded by the blood nofsoning incident Which are ordinarily controlled by the will, ine | 12.such maladies; but it f% impossible that he could have 'y » succumbed to antimonia! poisoning unter the cireumstynces, ry contraction of them, and the third are the sequtle reece ibe Gaankeniee Of Wook alpaca cist den lGar kant tants of that abnormal condiiton of the circulation wa uch palpable and decided leisions papire congestion) which results from the sedation of wonld inevitably be teveaied “by. au “adequ ive organs—eapecially the stomach—of A the negative results, there which ha of fre ov iret oor; heard no noise there, the business sbe had done before was done right; | great cental orgam and by depriving the uerve centres get. >| PATRI FFE! y be jinn “ y and prominently relied upon to er ATRICK J. COFFEY, T don’t know that Mrs. Wilson bas bad trouble with various tally of a condition necessary to their proper nutrition dis- | fron a tonic agent prove too much for the pros DAVID W. JACKBON ties; she accused several! parties of doing something, and orbs their functions, Induced coma, deliriam, alterations 1 | they establish anything 1p connection with tue cage, they a being duly sworn deposes and aa m an ofiicer of the asked me what to do; I told her to go toa lawyer; when | bi RRee areata the eiultaatite of aniesten eee | the operation of purely masarel o@ ses, the occur: rial precincts wae cn aaty Cc Mi gireet, last night 5 she went to the lawyer iH was found that she ina iven te “ unavoidable issue, an error in arm of fire and went imine to the place; sand made false accusations, and 10) im to pot 7 wed in certain aberrations of the | Derfect mnocence of thi nosisand (he | here verore the firemen OF whe In HM if ereee hina to 1 9 atrol; found Of. | have nothing to do with her; she has done this on more than ger Joly there, standing at, the door x Gay vosnsion LAFAYEITE FARRINGTON. fastened; «id not try It; the Ineurahee patrol came soon HARNIET TACKLEBURY, a‘ter; saw the insurance patrol break the door inj didn't see | being duly sworn, says:—My right name 18 Harriet Tackle- the k eard alterwards from our foundsman | barge Ihave gone by tne name of Harriet Wilson, but. not and from the insurance patrol that tl ey was found stick- | from my own Wishe: bave gone by the latter name at the ma lo" iat 10 ‘and are ex e prisoner. Secreetions pecullar to the special organs by which Tt fe d citer week te . - | ghing all the facts in this matter, as developed by Ginnie ch ceing absorbed this substance is rapidly | the medical witnesses for the State, and devoting to ther ine eiimainated by be si in, liver and kidn eapeoally last | vestigation much patient thought and honest labor, [ feel east shat copious Ps a ial Las barre % ha constrained to say, in the interest ailke of acience, of justice (montal ap Pommoning) aod which ‘ ‘undoubted humanity, that this unfor in died, not from ie a Jn, but from U 8 Of disease—not by | ing in the lock om the outelde of the door; the door at of Mr, Farrington no children eat, ittaulble, phenomenon, | ia a typical Pout ia the diepensations of Providence °2 | broken by forcing the shutter and breaking wheigiass; we then br r vatie Farring- action of (his powerftil agent; the quantity oF tartar emet Dr. Warren concluded his examination in chief at | fency her and we and ied Ler ous thsouge the Mash of the bs pecesenrz 2 cause death in a healthy aduit is variable; one o'clock, and after a recess of five minutes by re wi a prety full of mokes the woman could en the most positive poisonous effects: yroceces ® | the Court ue was handed over for cross-examina- | not speak; we carried her to th tion house on a shutter a proved fatal | tion, which Was progressing when the ( en there awhil red of two grains, while baif an ounce bi in another case reported by the toxicologists, ut, at ists; the Pea three o'clock, adjournea untt! to-morrow morning, uestions ; then extinguished 3 re 0% after went back to the fire; fas | induced me to com oy promit didn't go down in the basement; take care of me; he also wan! 0 give SAW EVIDENCES OF FIRE me a house in Sands street, gd in & rear office on first floor; there were pieces of GT hot give me the deed he told ms be bed separat Pasteboara boxes and a quantity of ashes whi ‘4 look: bia wife, and Le wanted me to live with bim as bis wife; LSE He ashes of paper; there wae quite a pile of it went to this house in February, aw phenome eedy development of A Card from Professor McCullook, nausea and vomiting, sed: ! gated bys feenle, tre went and compr TO THE EpirorR or THE HERALD:— ye f , in © beside where the desk stood; Git ete fouowing October, he induced me to yo West to mh furbanee of te réapitatory functions, togeiter wht th SiR—I nave read @ letter of your reporter, pro- } the dene cari {eaide, where | the gonalderabiy’ buraed: sitet ang when returned be told, me he bad disposed Of ments in certain groups of muscles; a cold and fessing ‘to detail an interview with myself in rela. | tere was never any light left in that atore at night; there 1s that se and furniture; afterwards be # tome not he by heeala that be akin, copioussecretion and discharge of urine, an: ouse and furniture ire left in the stove, which can be platoly geen by looking hea not disposed of t it id nol iy hrough the hole in the see a fire b the possession of tani disposition to syncope or fainting, which t : lavtehpeblaerta, Primary’ and “intermediate” remote svaptons resting | UKind porsonal feeling towards Professor Aiken, ack ofice: 60 Bar tie on my regular rout; f SOM WILLIAME AND BIB ¢i ton 1 Wile from the absorption of the antimony, ite direct action pon | and ascribes to me coarse Janguag with reference ni about, the Wath wor Wind” blak: pent to Sate Prison for passing coun: th uerye and its indirect influ upon spinal | to nim, which J did notemploy. Your reporter must watched the 0 T came back from Clove! i @ took me id relty closely since thea; supposed some person pt there tint that fre pecurredy ave seen # person go in there several times as "Yo Chrystie street; then to Mre, Levy. ORY 1p0 entree; and then, in exceptional cases, when have confounded his report of an interview with art gauattantlas at ats aot at | the with remerke of other Yeroan Please ot" me dent, a profound and prolonged sedation of the he: rightin these particulars. Respectfully, your obe> nine ox ten o'clock P. M. ; don't know if it was always OWN AB “MADAME Nall! congention fe induced in tne verve ceutres, isverferige wits. | Went servant. uh & MCULLOUH. ave ten no coe ge tn there amiga nee | 1 went to her Howse for the parpoee.of having feo ya sees lar racy ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan, 2, 187 ing duty worm, ough: MIBONARIN et | tree mtngar,thlewas fn April lan aver that ine me. Ro y t t may be, death, whiob are the “consecutive” remote symp: the © pol are ward. dete pre. | {nine on Hester atrcet, “ber Chrystic- representing that ms of tartar emetic pofson! pay some instances, in 001 . DEATH OF A PHILOSOPHER. of amore profound impression upon the vagas = juence e here ther n: ith id . le 2. Bere, there ie neither nausea nor vomitin the dis- Str. Lovts, Jan. 4, 1872. ao R Ginct; was at station house night; be- ller there ished to see; Levy went tween grea, and. imeir ofctock paw | wee Witeoi Ry ay: as rooms gave the woman & “oliar i Had some trouble wile Raeiatco ead site faa eee dt 7 A 4 weloped, the consecutive or nerve eymbtone are primpriiy young man, named 1. D. O'Connor, was found — and continuously exbibfted until he ‘idee of hd On & vacant lor in this city, Om Tucsaay, with a bay ry lye od ieee TO TARE LIDERTING WITH ME. A @ to take it take some clot! pm 8: fold me to take W and take some clothes oan aoaees, evninion, Pistol sot in his head, and was taken to the hos- peoferes js aitempled to pull-down | 5 The tendency to synco, @ coldness and Insensibitity of | pital, where he has since died, He stated that ne fi Saw lied up again; T or arr ‘ton and Mme. ig eae ide angmented cretion of urtag are however, | jived in Leavenworth, Kansas; that tm August, | minuiea; that be didn't retgin moe two ‘hours Pater the window; thie waa about two ort ma.0o8 impreenens Unetes 1 Fo aertocediaeenieriiy 870, he was struck in the face With @ rock Without | #™*\then she took. the ‘keys of the store from "Shrevo's ghernoon: Sra ery oPe a cigar store, and fue ero complicatin 4 etvtng. ‘character to the rovocation, since when he has been @ great suf- tee, ea is ie pi. toom, and went to Shreve's H cow Cones ah rat | pera ‘dores'k. Fo: reat mist ppore that emetic kills without p: ferer and his life was miserable; im November he that “ohe went snto ihe: stores Ott corccieet | proached. bim with bis conduct and he abuse ‘said veing leslons of an, appre acter in the orvaniza- | Came here to consult surgeons, but obtaining no ahe took the key fr a remember | Tat wae a bad house, aud 1p knew fe an tion | Sithoues Ft “yond Suse Ines tt- GAS A relief he conciaded to d He was a bookkeeper | the back ofice, and ther § Bott some wat sean, Been adminiterad tuner aver cireumaiane 4 ier Tnust by vocation, sud bas relativ sin Leaven wor, & es Standing On the desk; that she found ton took me Toe ave always been discovered, ‘This , nee AND ant bout a week; then I c ug 18.00 irritant, and when given in repeated doses, within BROOKLYN REFORM, aed threw them sround “he ote, nd then Ly ington in Ewen street, Wil — Xi Sheoret, a |, OF nfs, La 7 ately absorbed or - oh ame ne Sitiz J uy ‘wouth, gullet and ioleetinee, and. thus leaves being the |, THe Citizens’ Reform Committee met last even pres ucls and effects—inflammatory action—as a legacy to | lug and had lengthy debates over the provisions no palnologt. Acting se ur sho mace up her mind to do. away | I have lived ever since; have two rooms with herself right tiiere; J asked her how she intended to"@o Bled one; H shared the other; the, house ‘away with herself, and she said she wanted to perish in the ‘ooklyn, which vores pretended to flames; that she set the place on fre, intending to burn her- | Occupied by Madat a husban if up in ft; sald she didn’t remember going down sta last night; wae nevi she did not know what she did do ald some matchos on the des! in here was ome fire in the sto’ og in the office when tt fire wae discovered; that ake Ueard the oMoer Wring the door and | whom lie catleg “Sueeale Day! special sedative upon the vagas | of the new charter, After considerabl respi 5 roo @ motion of the Legislative Commies sha toe ight reasonably be | elective oMcers be elected at the next general elec: uimonary | ton in November was taken up aud adopted, The bull post-mortem | Committee thea adjourmeds LATE AT NIGHT. except in company with Farrington, and Farrington tJ to the house yesterday afternoon, In company with a lawyer, fair who L atterwards i ton to the trial of Mrs. Wharton. It imputes to me they wite which they waa called Dicktaaon ; nad some wished me to sign ; the ailldavits o ‘man named rece ands mao named Simonds with borin improper conduet would leave me; when hi we them to me, and ow why, aud Treuty sutnutec, Wout dic ot rebare a allt Grove wenty mi not return at all; home’ shortiy after: raid be hind seen Fal Ly irri Oy, a little while; that he had fea making any noise, the Hiking remember the room wil hand; Shreeve went to bed short! ; he got me some coal; and that he said he would be commence: to goad me because I called the dog, and thea went to bed soon after be did; T SLEPT FOR A WHILE I don"t know how long; laid went to the store to find Shreve’ pearly ith kerosene; lighted my lamp in the oftee, ; knew where they were down with my clothes on; © Parr: ington; took the key frome pocket was awake and saw me take the i be spoke to me and saia get up and leave the house; T went {u; I think I left the key {nthe door; don't remember, took a small brass iamp from the house with me wae was @ fool, and be unlocked the door T went to the got matohes from 1 sat down aide; and was looking over Totter, wheo I heard a noise of re, walked about half way towards the front door 9 my lamp with me; recogniz Shreve; did not bi could nee fire in the at the gas ‘on the the Howes the slore door was ope crazy foo), and went down in cellar; I went back to ofice; I did not hear him come up and go ont; I thi ‘and tbe I ine & in the odice about ten minutes, when I heard a NOISE OF CL. ‘on th was went to the door and LUB8 RAPPING sidewalk; emelied smoke, but did not know her ye | tried to o} + ‘ge it, but could find the key, so I stood there until they broke isopens after going tothe door I went back to the office and fow some letters burning in a drawer of the deaks 1 put them ont as I tnought and went back te the door; I then saw that I had not put out the fire in the oflice, but I did not go back szain; the fire in the office was caused by Lhe lamp sliding Into the open drawers when I got to the door I knew not first was not down. in. the cellar; Shreve the cel down there; when 1 w him ing of the fire down ia was go down; could not spent m out; don't know how [ waa how E was taken nd don't remember saying to any one: that {set the place of tire intending to burn myself up: re member some one asking me if such was not the casey & made no reply; don't remember telling any one that Shreve didn’t know of my being at tne atore inst nights ME Shreve earcies on the business they were doing no business; way; Levy, Madame Mabre the world; hy woe which was burned last month at 60 Barclay street; he goes by the name of Dr. Miprow, has a forged certificate as if physician and provenas to irmary; I went be from the Eye and Ear In- rato the office to call Shreve after the fire; a8 "noon as he got up he sald to me, “Where 1s my keys Tuaid, Jou erazy ola toot tin; it fe at tho store; Parrin Collins, the pusilist at Cold Spring; when the ofleere werg dia, Farrington | “brought | Collins looking. and put him ‘ou know well enough where jon was a backer of Tins under my bed; my _ room i this was at Dr. Petit Gion's house; Co'lins also boarded with Farrington’s family at O came here trom Clevela spiritual “seances three ar through M ‘hite ter Bay; he trained them; I first id with a Mrs, White, and gave nder the direction of Irving Hall a I. made Farrington’s acquaint: he and Mr. Thunler were the Persons connected wit my eeances, HAKRIET TUCKLEBURY, Tne case will be takgn to the Tombs thi morning. A Stight To THe Eprror oF TAB In to-day’s issue you Difference. New Yorg, Jan, 4, 1872. HERAL give credit to Police. man Coffey, of the Third precinct, for breake ing in the doors of clay street, on fire i building No. 59 Bag» ast night, and rescuing the woman Harriet Wilson from _ suffocatt The doors were forced open by members of H and Ladder Company No. 10, and the woman wad taken out through the broken glass light in door before the doors were opened by myself, and given to policeman Jolly, respectfully, on the sidewalk. JAMES H. MONROS, ssistant Engineer New Yo. rk Fire Departments THE NEW YEAR'S HOMICIDE ON SHIPBOARD Oficial Investigation: Verdict Against the Mate. Coroner Keenan yestérday held an inquest at nig office im the City Hall in the case of Samuel Ae Hasson, the young seaman aboard the schoone® Julia A. Gamage, lying at the foot of Twenty-fourtts street, North River, w! ho was stabbed on New Year's Day by a knife in the hanas of the mate, Willlam A. Harris, as heretofore fully ree Ported in the HERALD, synopsis of the evidence the jury. Harrison A. Pitcher, Subjoined will be found & elicited and the verdict of captain of the gchooner Julia A, Gamage, lying at the foot of Twenty-iourth streot, North River, was the first witness called, an@ deposed as follows :— a quarter deck ty he side ; the men followed in pursuit, and Burleig! a coming anid, “You have tried to get me shto trouble, an rd al whip you; ts uf an rock him as way from witness tool 4 tried to stop the fight witness knew the two men were cut; mens, saw. blood “on Hausen leigh said he was stetbed toe Fan up the pier, and orled ying onthe main dec! ry knife or any stabbing, to th that he stabbed Hassen; the men when they came th Te *{nflaence of | P that ha occurred @ vessel we un Captain Pitcher then | detailed at trout between ‘Harria ~— and scbooner’s crew at Rockland, ag previously detaiied the HERALD, and also various gegen ae lings that mat taken place between th ee and that on New ¥ of the mate, oh Pores Teduatns seaman negara ins tea ry , i Fase. femme chaos et a3 went ashore and) retarned in” the a 008 there youdle | cocurred between | | nm an mate; Hassen said he was the witness ; were at an ashe was ao bie Hassen rus! his pocket and drew a clasp Knife: the “Look out the has got @ knife bouy stabbed, but saw Hasse sen while on shore drinking when be went aboard the vessel and t} not to do it, Miler Murphy, an officer of the Sixteenth to arresting prisoner on the (shown) In his possession; asked if the he had used in stabbing di was no blood on the knite leigh Identified the prisoi Patrick Ryan, assaulting the p em ner with tl jurleigh then interfer around Harris tl watchman deposed to fo nk to mate or eel over the rail and the mat@ from. oa Rie es it the mate and so di Ne the mea’ itor pub bis hand ta itness cried out, in his hand ;”" did not see any= mand Burleigh bleeding; Hae- aid he would punish i, witness advised hi tnot, testidied pier and Cnding the knife nife Ww: one seel eir fists and piece: one of them had an oar twelve or fourteen feet lone, during the assantt saw prisoner pul something from his pocket, and heard oneof the men say, “Are you going tostab tion of the body, testited us?’ to which Harris replied Te" and strick out at then. ooater Beach, M. D., who ma iy, joa post-mortem examina- that hemorrhage from a stat: wound of the heart was the cause of death, Coroner Keenan then submitted the case to the jury, Who returned the following VERDICT. «That Samuel A. Hassen came to Ris death froma stab-wound of the heart with a knife in the hands of William H. Harris, at the foot of T y-lourtis H street, North River, on the 1st day of January, 18725 and from the testimony We believe said Harris was partially justified in usin; the knite,"” In his formal examination Harris said:—“T wae afraid the man would murder me, and used the knife in self-defence.” Harris, who 1s thirty-five years Of age, a native of Deer isie, Me., aud @ seaman by occupat was committed to the bs to awall the action of tne Grand Jury. Coroner Keenan will liberate Harris by giving $7000 by he hag no friends here and thinks 3 to procure a bondsman. aiMouit for ning Pitel aptal her was re quired to give ball to insure his ac ore as witness, should the case ever come to there may be some doubt, |, Of wink NOT ‘A MERE BAGATELLB."” Serious Stabbing Affray in Fourth Avenue 'rwe Germ Bagatelle. Quarrel Over a Game of Benedick Lissig and Bernhard Kohn were in @ lager beer saloon tn Fourth avenue, between Tents and Eleventh streets, Wednesday evening, playing bagatelle, when Kohn, hi aving lost the game, ac- cused Lissig of not playing fair and refused to pag for the drinks, The matter was afterward settled, and Lissig left the saloon and went down Fourt® avenue, Kohn soon followed and caught up to his antagonist, near where he attacked bing and struck him io «the §=face |= Witt his fist. A scuMe ensued, in which Lissig got his hand severely cut with some Instru- 5 then pniled out a large sheath knife, throwing Konn 1 wind, stabbed him throwing Konn to the times. John 8, Smith, of Ww ort at the time, called the attention of 01 ‘or 287 Sixt street, who . Ardle, who arrested J. . Kohn was wets Waal aaa Soe ape there were inch m depth and three-quarters of an inch im breadth; one wound over temple nother forehead. Lissig was brought to Mar- ket a cominitted to trait the result of Konn’s im Jaries. OUTRAGE UPON A LITTLE GIRL. Yesterday morning while Anna Bolter, a iktle girl about twelve years of age, was upon the root hanging clothes out to dry, she was indecently - saulted by two young ruMans= Andrew Boyle ana Michael Scantan—who succeeded in ier ng hee erson, She informed her Boye Ana Scanlan were ir parents 0! arrested. Justice Koch, Pe at the Yorkville Police Cou he prisoners wore arra’ comuitted them without a before whors ned yestorday afternoom. i for examiuattoms