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THEY LONG TO BE THIN,
SO THEY DO, AND SAY SO
Nature Has Been Too Generous With Many of
Our Stage Favorites and They Try to
Be Rid of Too Much Flesh
REDUCING METHODS OF RUSSELL, TEMPLETON, FOX
And Others—Fay Templcton Disposed of Fifty Pounds of Flesh io Three
.Months'"Lillian Russell's Ceaseless War Against Avoirdupois.
Little Delia Fox Has a Hard Struggles-May Irwin
Needs a Book to Tell Her Story In
Borne few years ago, when Miss Lillian
Russell was engaged in a lawsuit caused
*y a broken contract, the lawyer on the
apposing side asked ber why she oid not
wear tignts, as she bad agreed to. Miss
Russell is not addicted to blushing on
ordinary occasions, but her pretty face
became as red ns the deep crimson cur
tains banging behind tbe judge who was
bearing the case.
;It was an awkward moment. There
wsre hundreds of women in the court
room, and every face had an expectant
uok. The silence was intense. The court
stenographer waited, with pencil poised
in the air,ami a score of newspaper repor
ters stood ready to tell an anxious world
why the famea comic opera singer refus
ed to exhibit herself in tigbts.
Miss Kttssell looked appealmgly at the
judge, her lawyers, the repoiters and the
spectators, but'thero was no sympathy to
be found anywnerc. Everyone was eager
and anxious lor the explanation. At last
it tame in this wise:
MISS LILLIAN RUSSELL SKIPPING ROPE ;
"Because nature lias been too generous I
> me. "
The little sentence irncavered an ocean
of iroe. Miss Kussell is S feet :i inches in
height, and, according to the law of
physical proportions, should weigh 138
Bounds. At that time she weighed 105
pounds, with the growing prospect ot
getting deeper into the trouble of super
fluous avoirdupois. Miss Kussell now
weighs 155 pounds, and if it wero not for
the perpetual war which abe wages
against nature she would probably tip
the scales at 190 pounds.
It will interest a great many women to
know how Miss Bulsell and numerous
other lights of ihe stage world protect
themselves against too generous advance?
of nature. No one not familiar with tho
requirements ol satge lilts can fully ap
preciate the absolute need of beauty in
face and figure in an actress.
Many a woman gifted with rare ability
has been driven olf the itase by tonmucu
flesh. Weight is the pa-ticolnr bugaboo
of theatrical women; it haunts them
night and day. andj the physical agony
which tlicy suffer to ken it in subjuga
tion Is worthy of the Spartans of old.
Hunger, thirst, fatigue and unceasing
care arc only a few of the mis-cries which
they undergo.
Miss Rnsaell's system ia a vigorous
one. Violent exercise, causing profuse
perspiration and subsequent robbings
down, are what she relies upon principal
ly. She bus found tho bicycle a pleasant
method of doing hard work. She usually
gets up in the morning at 9 ociock and
reakfasts lightly, avoiding all fattening
foods, like potatoes, wheat breads, sweets
and milk.
Her morning's work often begins with
■ kipping a rope. Clad in a loose gymna
■ ium bloomer suit she jumps the rope for
twelve minutes, with a minute's interval
lor resting. This is really a very scvero
task, and when ths exercise is over sho
Is bathed from head to foot in perspira
tion.
A strong-armed maid then giveß her
mistress a vigorous rubbing, which is fol
lowed by a resting spell of an hour.
Then a bicycle costume is donned, the
light nineteen-pound wheel is carried
outside, and a minute later Miss Kusseil
is going on a spin along tbo Riverside
drive or thiongh Central park.
Tbe fair singer claims that she can ride
twenty miles an hour, which is certainly
very good time for a woman, but gener
ally lbe rides at a ten mile gait. The
ride lasts but an hour, and on ber return
ber maid gives her vigorous massage
reatnient, and then the hard work of thu
day ia over. Of course. Miss Kusseil eats
very guardedly at all times and avoids
stimulants at all times. In former and
thinner days sbe allowed herself tbe lux
wy of an elaborate supper after the
■ajat • pwtioiaMkace, but nothing can iv
luce her to do anything of that kind
now.
Miss Kay Templeton, who in private
lite is called Mrs. Howell Osborne, bas
just linished tbe hardest task of her life.
Three months ago she signed a contract,
and one of tbo stipulations it contained
waa that when the company was ready to
begin work she was to weigh but 100
pounds, Wben this contract was signed
Miss Templeton weighed exactly 1!J0
pounds, according to her own statement.
.Now, to get rid of forty pounds in threo
months is no easy task. It would frighten
the most experienced prize lighter.and his
trainers.;
Kveryone familiar with the art of re.
ducing weight, knows that it is compara
tively easy to get rid of the first ten
pounds. But the second ten pounds is
very hard and tho third ten pounds is
well nigh impossible. What the fourth
install merit of ten pounds must havo
been in Miss Templeton's case can easily
be surmised, Tho last four pounds, she
said, caused her more agony than all tho
other thirty-six, und many times alio
was on the point of giving tho whole
thing up and adding another to the lung
list of broken tbcatrioal contracts,
Before "he began the arduous task, and
while in the full enjoyment of 100 pounds,
she spent a couple of days in reading up in
all tlie recipes and systems for reducing
weight. She found that tho Banting
system was originated by an Englishman
liitmod Banting, who won lame many
Della Pox tenets
years ago ky publishing a pamphlet in
which liH Told how he had reduced his
weight from 20*J pounds to 150 pounds.
But it took bim ft year to do it, and Miss
IViu: leion decided that Banting would
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not do for her. There were several other
systems she read of, like that applied by
D. Schweninger, she German physician,
when he reduced Bismarck in weight to
the tune of forty pounds in three months.
But she decided to create a Tentpleton
cure, anil set valiantly to work at it.
First sbe decided that she would drink
nothing except tho lew drops of liquid
required each day to keep her from dying
of thirst. All vegetables grown under
ground were blacklisted, leas. corn and
beans were also avoided. rmlerdoiie
meats, sslsds without oils, cnbbage, cu
cumbers, dry toast and hard biscuit, an
occasional bit of game and a tritle oi black
coffee formed the daily menu, together
witb all the fruit she cared for.
This diet in itself was a shock to Miss
Templcton, who hud always ponnittej
herself every luxury in ihe way of out
ing. But the diet Was only a part of the
system. She decided that seven hours'
sleep a night were enough.with tio si
estas during tbo day. At 7 oclook in the
morning she was up swinging dumbbells.
Then, after a hard rubbing, she took a
cold bath, and, after another rubbing,
had a very light breakfast, mostly of
fruit, dry toast and rare meats. After
breakfast a big rawboned, lumbering
horse wan brought around, and Miss
Templcton would mount and bravely rido
for two hours. She selected this cnhiber
some-gaited hoise bucause it was hard
physical work to ride him.
puncheon was always a very light meal,
and at J oclook in the afternoon the act
ress started out on a bicycle She usually
rode very slowly, but the ride consumed
two hours. With nothinp particularly
captivating in the dinner menu, the days
were protty tiresome.
As the weeks passed on Miss 'templc
ton found it necessary to Increase tbe ex
ercise, and during the last week sho
claims to have consumed fully eight
hours a day in rldifig, biking.exercising,
bathing and in the hands of jer maid.
And the best of it is that sho never
looked better in her life than she does
today.
Della Fox, although a very small,
young lady, not standing a bit moro
than 5 feet in height.weighed 14."i pou.ids
at tho beginning of the season. To be
artistically perfect sbe should weigh llli
pounds, and she tried bravely to reach
that point, but when she got down to the
I-o-pofc'nd mark sbe gave up till hope of
further reduction.
Mjss Fox keeps herself in training, as
it were, by fencing every morning and
afternoon with either her maid or some
purely imaginary foe.
Fanny Davenport recently astounded
ber friends, and almost killed herself,
by getting rid ot fifty pounds within n
few months. She weighed MO urd got
down to 100.
Amelia S'lmmerville, within six
months, reduced from 21U to p;r> rounds,
but sho could not stand the strain upcos
sary to maintain the minimum weight
for any length of time.
Miss May Irwin is satisfied if she can
keep below the 170 mark, but sho is
usually on the Heavy side of that. Dgnre,
She clnims to havo a sure cure for obes
ity, but sho has not the courage to try il,
as it requires of her first to write a book,
and then live on the proceeds of the
sales.
DOES THE WIFE NEEDSUFFRRGE
The following address by Mrs. Colista
Willard Scott of Fairmont, Los Angeles
county.was delivered before tho woman's
parliament held in this city, Octobet
0-10:
The infallible index of true progress is
found iv the leading questions that con
cern the world today. Wo take it for
gra.ited that the policy and nature of our
own government—insofar as it represents
the problems which agitate the present
ago—is on the side of liberal and enlight
ened sentiments. It would be impossi
ble for us, if we wero so disposed, to pre
vent our principles and our example from
producing some effect upon the opinions
and hopes of society throughout tho civ
ilized world. Never before has the in
tellect of man and woman been brought
so directly face to face with the subjeot
of wife's advancement a*-it is now. The
age is extraordinary, tbo spirit that actu
ates it la peculiar and marked ami our re
lation to the times we live in and£to j
questions which interests them is equal- j
ly matked and peculiar. Wo fool that the !
time for argument and experiment has
almost passed. Woman's suffrage limited
and unlimited has been successful wher
ever tried. It bas been declared by both
men and women that higher education
of woman and co-education would dem
onstrate her inferiority and lead to tbe
degradation of both sexes and to the ruin
ation of home instinct in woman, but
the trials of these has been so successful
one of our bitterest opponents in a recent
article has said: "No sane man doubts
the wisdom and duty of the highest edu
cation for woman." The admission of
married woman to control her own prop
erty, which has only come to pass within
a generation, is due tc the efforts of a
few and was strongly opposed by the ma
jority of women.
Wo need only to turn to Greek letters,
art and poetry, in all its periods from
Hervie or Homeric age down to the do
mestic life of the Athenians and
Spartans, four or live centimes later, to
be convinced that from tbe earliest ages
the wife has been in a state of bondage
to man. And at the present day in Ori
ental nations tho higher her position in
tbe social scale,tbe more secluded, worth
less and pitiful her life becomes to herself
and tbe world, miserably dwarfed intel
lectually and spiritually—lhe piopetty of
her lord and master, valued according to
her youth and beauty.
Tlie present inequality between bus
band and wife is duo to tiio law of force
necessary to the times and conditions
tbat existed ages ago when our ancestors
wero "forest dwellers, 1 and to a genera
tion of inherited submision on the part
of vur foremothhers, just as the modem
temple preserves the gradual semblance
to the wooelen cabin in which tbo Doran
dwelt. Science declares that there are
three possibilities for the human rr.co;
balance, evolution and degeneration. The
world has reached a stago in evolution,
when the intelligent wile refuses to re
cede one inch from the vantage ground
of personal freedom and intellectual lifo,
which she as only gained in America by
her own efforts within tlie last Iwenly
live years.
She refuses to be again degraded into
the so-called ornament of chivalry or the
reproductive animal of the Greeks aud
Romans.
Motherhood is truly the great privi
lege and crowning glory of tho wife; it is
the nature and need of tbis relation that
she should reproduce the race, but to ful
fill ber noblest mission has vast respons
ibility. The true wifo will never forsake
the cradle nor the sick chamber for polit
ical honors. She who would do so would
haye B done;so for some other reason.
Though a man's understanding learls
him to look for a good housewife, his
heart and imagination compel him to
look for other qualities as well. While bo
must often pursue ono straight coorse,
the ideal wife of today must expand her
activity in every direction. She must
have ciear discernment, readiness in all
emergencies, courage in adversity, car©
in the smallest trifles, and a soul able to
comprehend the greatest matters, and yet
lay them all aside if necessary. It was a
grand tributso poid lo her sex by De
Quinoey when he said: "Ah, woman,
you can suffer nobly and die grandly for
just cause.''
The thinking intelligent wife has no
desire to antagonize man. She haa no
desire to usurp one masculine privilege.
She recognizes the fi< t that tlie inequal
ities of nature are in different insur
mountable lines, und that each are neces
sary to the other for the highest develop
ment of the race. Ana that there can ue
11.1 question of rivalry for power in the
natural laws that exist in the lamily. In
ber secret soul she knows that her duty
to her husband and home docs not end
ut her own street door. She knows that
sho bus a heaven-given to stand by
his side, no longer as a child in the eyes
of custom and state, but as bis equal so
cially anil politically.
Kvery thoughtful wife must often ask
battel!— Can I full tit my highest destiny
under present limitations? We believe
we cannot. We believe that we should
be enfranchised because the wife is a
different being, and will always havo a
different work to do in life irom thnt of
her husband.
There are doubtless some progressive
women present who as yet can see no
need for enfranchisement.
You ask us lirst to give the nation her
! children. You ask us to give tho best
there is in us towards making tbe home
1 a heaven id' rest and strength lor tho hus-
I band to return to. after bis days spent in
I the shabby nurseries, disappointment,
1 and temptations of tin 1 business world,
j And then, with all our judgment and
I experience, you nsk us to look upon the
vorld with all its evils, with our hearts
and intuition as auicK to apprehend, and
believe that it is just and right Unit we
should bo silent and our action powerless
to guard the best interests of those we
love better than llile.
You ask ns to try to believe tbat it is
kind and just, that with nil or intelli
gence. We shoi'ld br» classed in tho mak
ing of our laws, with our children, in
competents and criminals. You .alk to
us about teaching partiotism to our sons
and daughters, whilo tgflornat, disrepu
table, irresponsible men are making laws
for us and winking at nefarious institu
tions that are bringing poverty, moral
bankruptcy and degradation into our very
I doors.
| Ah! my dear sisters, yon wives who are
content to Mt sheltereil'nnd protected iv
I your homes, sending your dear ones out
into the world, feeling secure that no
cloud can never hovor near you. You
need to be taught to look out* upo»i the
world of suffering womanhood, witb
breaking, bleeding hearts, wives who
have just as much rigut to peace and
happiness as yon have, hiding their
bruises, their wretchedness and degrada
tion in a drunkard's nursery,and wretch
edness made possible by the greatest
curno of America today. Tho vote of
ignorance anil superstition, the evils of
mis-government that affect woman far
more than they can ever affect man.
Misery mnde possible by laws tbat pro
tect the liquor traffic, haws that make it
legitimate for women (as soulless and
heartless as a dressmaker's wax model)
to rule our voters and lawmakers—not
through their intellect but through their
baser natures.
You need to be inspired with a desire
to cast a ballot for bettor legislation. It
will enable us to protect that sacred in
stitution, the home, as wo have never
done before.
A new era has arisen. New and dan
gerous combinations are taking place,
promulgating doctrines fraught witb ten
dencies wholly subversive to the home.
It is time for the chrystalization of
j thought and feeling of the best and
I brainiest men and women of our land on
| this subject to penetrate tno heart of
I every wife and every domestic woman. It
!ia time for our /oters and legislators to
I generously respond to onr loyalty and
j devotion to these personal qualities, tneir
i courage and strength, by conceding the
fact that the essential beauty, power,
, dignity and virtue of the American wife
, comes from causes within, over which
i the giving or denying can havo nothing
to do and will never change.
Three Washington Women
Mrs. Wilson, wifo of tho postmaster
general, is to havo a delightful surprise
soon, when she enters her new home. Mr.
Wilson purchased a charming house on
I street and every room ia to be furnisher;
before Mrs. Wilson will even get a peep
ut it.
Mrs. Stevenson, wifo of the vice-presi
dent, ia at her home in the west, and
will not return to Washington for some
time. She is in poor health, ami her
young daughter has also been ill, which
causes the tamily great anxiety, as they
lust a daughter last year.
Mrs. John A. Logan is to Kurope
in a few days. It is rumored that the
magazine of which she once had charge,
The Hume, ia to be revived agaitl under
a new management. Mrs. Logan is most
anxious to set the other on its Feet suc
cessfully ant! have a hand in its conduct.
Mrs. John W. Griggs, tho wifo of tho
Kepulbican candidate for governor of New
.lersoy, occupies an unusual position in
the community. She is very handsome
and less than 3(1 years old, married to a
widower with live children, one a big boy
of 19, ana the mother of a baby about 1
year old. Before her marriage two years
ago the ex-senntor's wife was Miss Laura
Elizabeth i'rice of Cleveland, O. She is
a l>ri;jlit conversationalist, traveled and
cultured, a very devoted homemakcr and
mother and an enthusiastic atblotc. Her
favorite game is golf, and her fads bet
children und her husband.
THOUGHTS
By sound of name nnd touch of band,
Thro 1 eara that hear and eyes that see,
We know each other in this land —
How littio must that knowledge bej
Our souls are all the timo alone,
No spirit can another reach;
They hide away in realms unknown,
Like waves that never touch a beach.
We never Know each other bore,
No soul can here another see—
To know we need a light as clear
As that which tills eternity.
for here we walk by human light.
But there the light of <lod is ours;
Each day on earth is but a night —
Heaven alone hath hours.
I call you thus-you Sail me thus—
Our mortal is the very bar
Tbat parts forever each Of us.
As skies on high part stai from star.
A name is nothing but a name
lor I bat which else would nameless be;
Until our souls in rapture claim
Full knowledge in eternity.
—Fattier llyan.
THE BORGIAS
OF ALL AGES
Poison Is the Favorite
Weapon of the
Murderess
SOME VERY ARTISTIC CRIMES
Cleopatra's Rose-Leaf Wiae--How the
Fair Greek Parisiales Disposed
of Their Lovers--Modero
American Cases
I'oison lias boon a favorite weapon of
the murderess tor as many centuries as
lbe world is old.
It is uhe most cruel anil diabolical
method of making away with an enemy,
and for.).lions criminals who would not
hesitate to usso a knife or pistol on a
fellow man, shrink from a poisoner. This
was clearly shown at the timo (Jarlyle
Harris was awaiting his death day in
Sing Stag prison for poisoning his wife.
On tho night when l'allister and lloebl
A GROUP OF PAfIOUS BORGIAS
made tbeir famous escape from the (loath
houso, tiioy opened the cells of the other
two men, out they refused to give Harris
a chance for liberty. In fact it was said
afterward* that Pall fs tor wanted to kill
J (arris he fore leaving, but the others
perusaded him not to do so, as it would
take too much time. These four murder
ers detested Harris, and let no small op
portunity pass to make his last days
moro miserable. He was a poisoner, and
hence a monster to his fellow murderers.
New York at the present time has a
poison case on its hands which will go
down in criminal history. The death of
Mrs. Evelina M. Bliss, for which her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Alice L. Fleming,
was arrested on the charge of giving her
mother some clam chowdor containing
arsenic and antimony, piesents many
curious features. The case has attracted
atantioa in all parts of the country, and
is so well known that no extended refer
ence to it is required here.
A glance at any history of woman as a
criminal shows that poison has largely
figured in then* murders. Psychologists
who have studied the criminal woman
assert that she is more cruel than the
criminal man. Writers of all ages give
reasons for this.
Euripides suys: "The violence of the
ocean waves or of devouring flames is
terrible. Terrible ia poverty, but woman
is more terrible than ail else."
Oaro says: *'The pervoristy of woman
is so great as to be incredible, even to its
victims."
Ceito, an author of the fifteenth cen
tury, says: "Xo possible punishments
can deter women irom heaping up crime
Upon crime. Their perversity of mind is
more fertile iv new crimes than the im
agination of a judge In new punish
ments. "
Rykere says: "Feminine criminality
Ifl more cynical, more depraved and more
terrible than the criminality nf the male.
Rarely is a woman wicked, but when she
is, she surpasses the man."
.Remote history tells of the fair and ele
gant Greek parisiutes,who,when they tired
their lovers, invited them with ethers to
a sumptuous least, and carving forae
dainty disli with a Knife, tho blade of
which was poisoned on one side only,
helped thorn to the futal portion and saw
them ilie before tbe banquet was ovor
while toe remaining guests escaped un
harmed, Cleopalra belongs to tbe ranks
of tbo women poisoners. In fact she ex
celled in all vaircties of crime, but every
thing was done witb a delicacy tbat l>c
spoke the artist. Sho lightly dropped
poisoned rose leaves into tbe wine cups
of tbe enemieH she hail doomed, and with
a playful smilo languidly watched tbem
expire in fearful agony.
The ancients, while knowing more
about poisonous drugs than the experts
ut today, were always opposed lo their
use. EVen in tho frightful wars of tbo
Carthngenians, when one of the lesssr
generals proposed Ihe US# of poison to do
away with tbe enemy, he barely escaped
violence at the hands of his own soldiers.
Lucrezla I3orgia, it is beliived, used an
arsenical powdei.ciosely resembling sugar
in her many crimes, but her prepara
tions did not possess tbe diabolical po
tency of the drugs employed by the ear
lier poisoners.
in the middle ages the female poison
ers operatd on different systems, tint al -
ways in a graceful and elegant fashion,
Catherine de Medicis sent death in dain
ty perfumed gloves, and Diana do Mori
dor in juicy golden oranges, in the sev
enterntb century, an epoch when poi
sons were freely used, they were fre
quently called by the cynical nnd iron
ical appellation of "pnudrr a succession.'
Mme. ue lirinyilliers and la Voitin used
firs. Fleming
an immense quantity of this "inherit
ance powder,' which plnoed many a for
tune within their grasps. The trial of
the former caused great scandal,although
she persistency refused to u,ive any ex
planation or to betray ber accompiiccs.
"If 1 spote," she repeatedly declared,
"the whole town would be compromised-'
Tbe woman Voisin was leßs reticent,
admitting that to her trade in poisons
she nad added tho profession of witchcrfat,
and tbat "on stormy nights she sum
moned the devil to SI. Denys.' 1 Mme.
de Sevigne in her Loiters alludes to her
trial and sentence. She was burnt alive
on the riace de Gteve.struegling with ex
traordinary fierceness against the execu
tioners until the Damns suffocated her.
This Mme. de llrinvilliers, in addition
to poisoning numeous persons, tried to
poison her 16-year-old daughter. The
latter was very beautiful, and her mother
became insanely jealous of her. Oaaik
oma, a contemporary of de Brinvilliers,
poisoned her young dauhgter in order to
inherit a fortuho of 20,000 francs. When
a wo,nan displays a tfant of maternal
feeling, like these two, she is deemed tbe
lowest ami most horrible typo of crim
inal.
A more modern type of the woman
poisoner was Mme. Lafargc. nee Mario
Capelle. She was tno daughter of an
o'Mcer of the imperial guard, well mar
ried, happy nt lirst, then tired of her hus
band and fell madly in love with another
man. She had hy letters warned her hus
band that be had become hateful to her,
and that she would get rid of him at
any price. She made him eat a piece of
cake thickly powdered with arsenic, was
tried, found guilty and condemned to
prison for life. However, in lSu'J sho
was pardoned by tbo Prince President
Louis Napoleon, and died a few months
after nor liberation, leaving a book of
memoirs called Prison Hours. After
reading it Alexander llumas the elder
wrote : "Was Marie Capelle guilty or
not? The secret lies between her judges
and God. She eternally said 'No!' The
law once said 'Vos,' and before this solo
affirmation nil her denials went for
nothing. Guilty or innocent, Marie
Capelle is dead, with the atonement of
the priscn and tbe rehabilitation of tho
tomb."
Tno case of Mme. Lncosto about tho
same time attracted world-wide atten
tion, but she was more fortunate than
Marie Capelle. Anotbor was that of
Lydie F'ougines, countess do Bocarme,
arrested under suspicion of having as
sisted her husband in the murder of his
brother-in-law, was found not guilty.
Her selt-commana was prodigious. When
told that tbe count had ascended the
scaffold in dross irousers, a cambric shirt
and patent leather shoes, sbe remarked,
coldy: "Ba has done well; it will be a
good example for our people."
Baltimore had a famous poisoning case
in 1871* Mrs, Whatton, the widow of an
army officer, was accused of tbo murder
of Gen. W. S. Kctchum, of tho United
States army, and an old friend of her
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husband. Mil. Wharton at lbs timf
was about BO years old and was heavily
in debt to tbe general. On .Inly '2 3< 1871.
the general, witb a Mr. Van Ness,
who are fully acquainted with tbe busi
ness affairs of the two, called upon the
widow to wish her farewell, as she was
about to start on an European trip. The
general also expected to collect tbo money
duo bim, and had the widow's note in
his waistcoat pocket.
.Some light refreshments were offered
the two gentlemen, and shortly aftrwards
tno general died in great agony,while Mr.
\an Ness narrowly escaped death. Over
one hundred experts testified at the sub.
sequent trial nnd the widow was finally
acquitted of the charge of poisoning Gen
eral Ketcham. Mr. Van Ness never
pushed his side of tne case against her.
Tbe Maybiiak case in England is
again being brought to notice hy n fresh
effort on the part of the American frimla
of Mrs. Haybrick to secure her pardon.
She was accused of poisoning her hus
band, James Maybrick, nt Liverpool in
1889, by administering arsenical wafers.
11 cr relations with a Mr. Briefly fur
nished the motive for the crime. Whea
the jury brought in a verdict ot guilty
Mrs. MayhricK addressed the court, say
ing: "My lord, everything has been
against me. I wish to say tbat, al
though ovidence has been given as to a
great many circumstances in connection
with Mr. Brierly, much has been with
held which might havo influenced the
jury had it been told. I am not guilty
of this crime."
England bad another famous poison
ing craze ut tlie beginning nf the present
century, J.liza Fanning, an 18-year old
girl, ail extraordinaiv beauty, was con
victed of poisoning tiio entire family in
wnich sho was the governess. She was
hanged with a noted criminal on each
side ot ber. Thedav after the execution
it was discovered that the poison baa
been given by a maniac who had lieen
sheltered in tho house of the poisoned
family.
"Emporia, Kan.."some seven years ago,
was the scene of a unique Clime. Mrß.
Walkup, formerly a famous belle of New
Orleans, was charged with poisoning her
husband, .Judge Walkup. Sbe was a
beautiful woman, and ber loveliness hud
some effect on tho jury, as tho case
against her was strong. She was acquit
ted after v sensational trial.
Tho most remarkable poisoner of the
year was Mine. JoniuUX,called tbo "Ant
werp llrinvilliers." She poisoned for
money,anil tha deaths of v dozen of her
friends and relatives wero attributed to
her. She was a remarkablo woman, fine
ly educated and allied to tho best fami
lies of Belgium, and her calm soli-posses
sion at bet trial last January was won
derful in face of the hurricane of incrim
inating evidncee against her. She is now
serving a life sentence.
Mrs. Henry Meyer's late for alleged com
plicity in the many murders by poison
charged to her husband is still unsettled.
Insurance monoy, like in the Joniaux.
case, was the motive of these crimes.