Show I 1 THE tto flo excitement of the sherman poisoning apse caie in con connecticut 11 is i I 1 likely lely I 1 to lo he be driven e n front from thelo ali iii bj hj id alby by this atilt MOTO P r 1 rl 74 it a afy ivy story of crime winch which 1 li 1 ic aue ie I 1 u leht light io in baltimore one or lie ili it ot vi and attractive balies in the society of hait that pleasant pl casaul city is the widow of the late ata cl cal harry ewh utomi for malty years paymaster of the un united il states slates forces in tile department of afa mariand MarI 1 ind well bred and a mrs abarton has been beca a go general oera favorite and her ber fortune has been large enough to support liar in comfort if not in luxury iler her husband al a man of genial manners and wider wide popularity died suddenly in in Is 18 ca his flis cousin col edward whar ton visiting the aho house in baltimore Billt imore about abol a that time also alo diel died suddenly edward adward whartons Wh artons daughter a young lady of 18 followed her father to the grave rite a few days later A year ago mrs Whai Whay tona tone 80 iron major 11 IV W Wb wharton arton jr died in in atly kleamo llE aamli amo manner while T visiting his hia mother ruo lher just after he had insured his hii life lif for far a largo large sum or of money the companie compi nici paid the policies to tin NIS wharton without question no sua us dicion seems to lo hue have been excited by these budden aeatha until i 1 within a few weeks when accidents occurred about which here could be oo no mistie OR on sunday the of june two friends frici idi of sira sin whartons Wh artona artons camo came to her house bouse one to spend a few il 4 ayi the other W ta m male a le a is hott call the former was waa gen A V 9 a well known retired officer aud a of late the other was wa mr van neds a haulm lious liouc clerk who got act ad aa mra Wh wharton whartons artons a unsocial 1 agent gen was wi talen ill tie the same name ev esling and died oil od wednesday tile under which have not peen public it id leown however that lint his ha attendant suspected anil and LM leis to the patients patient brother io law haw Pay muter G genrl urice brice I 1 anil and a lofb examination wua was accordingly lela at washington whither the body lal had been re moved lo 10 r burial the result was the ibe discovery is covery in tile the stomach or of about 20 grains araina of tartar demetio lo in the mean mr fr vao van ness hij bid been near dar death WE mrs wharton had given agnen him i r flavored willi few drisgill of tincture of gentian and sonn eoin after drinnin drin drinking lin it il he was vil liken all 7 violently ill lie was put to bed it a was called in gild and ins his wife life came to tile the house to him the prescribed bed among other oilier if mill punch which seems beccia to lu have be been en prepared under the llie direction if riot not by tho the hinda of mrs wharton Vh the sick man drink one plou ginas without feel ing any bad effects when the second was brought mr airs van N ness ch a nee 4 to taste it and at once discovered that thai bobeth ing was vai wrong A quantity of sediment wag found at the he bottom odthe i essel it was nna ana it zed and proved to be tartar emetic mr air van ness aa afterwards removed to hit hii own home where lie be still null hei lic in a critical condition the facts were la laid a before the police mr wharton was to lo have hato sailed for europe on tile the instant in stint but she has bag been held to 0 await the action or of the grand jury and meanwhile is is a prisoner in the city j ill no motives have leceil even suggested lor for more than two ivro or of the murders and no one imaginable motive will account for all 0 of o them spring fittie republican |