East Windsor, Connecticut, USA (Broad Brook) (Warehouse Point) (Melrose) (Scantic) (Windsorville)
1871 - The Poisoning Case in East Windsor, Conn. - The Suspected Woman Bound Over for Trial.

HARTFORD, Feb, 23 - Mrs. ANN STILES, who was arrested on suspicion of being the person who sent the boxes of candy containing arsenic by mail to two families in East Windsor, was examined before EDMUND WATSON, Justice of the Peace, in that town, yesterday. The testimony of LESTER DEWEY, the husband of Mrs. SARAH M. DEWEY, who was most dangerously poisoned, the Postmasters who received and delivered the boxes, was heard, and she was bound over for trial in the sum of $2,500. She will be brought before Superior Court, which convenes on the second Tuesday in March. Mrs. STILES is a tall, fair-looking lady, about forty years of age, whom one would scarcely suspect to be a criminal. She had no counsel at the examination, but made a statement, not under oath, that a week ago Monday an gentleman came to her back door and gave her the packages and a letter, requesting that she should mail them. She thought it strange, but found a note inside saying that the reason of the request would be known hereafter. She made other statements which were somewhat confused; saying that she could not think of what it meant, and had no reason for doing anything of the kind herself; that she had no poison of any kind, and never had. She repeatedly remarked that she "wondered at it." and asserted that there was a $5 bill in the bundle of packages to pay the postage on them. While the Justice was speaking, too, Mrs. STILES interrupted and spoke at random, again asserting that she was not guilty of this charge; that there could be no reason for her doing so. Mr. DEWEY, in his testimony, said it was understood that there was hard feelings on Mr. STILES' part toward his wife.

The New York Times
New York, New York
February 24, 1871

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