FULL TEXT: Holyoke, Mass., Aug. 2.— Mrs. Lizzie Brennan, the woman accused of poisoning her son, Thomas Brennan, and suspected of murdering in the same manner her husband and son, Michael, was today removed from her home to the police station.
At 10 o’clock she was arraigned in the
Police Court. Through her counsel, Lawyer
Brooks, she waived the reading of the
complaint and pleaded “not guilty.”
Mrs.
Brennan sat in the dock with her older daughter, Mary, who affectionately entwined
her arms around her unfortunate mother’s neck.
The
prisoner was calm and collected, and if she was stirred by emotion her firm
countenance did not betray her agitation.
By
request of her counsel the hearing was continued until next Friday. The woman
was then looked up, while her daughter stood at the door wailing piteously.
The
complaint slates that on June 24 the prisoner feloniously, wilfully and of her
malice aforethought mixed and mingled with water corrosive sublimate, which she
knew to be a deadly poison, and which she administered to the said Thomas Brennan; that on June 25
said Thomas died from sickness occasioned thereby and that the prisoner did poison;
kill and murder the said Thomas.
Chief
of Police Whitcomb this morning expressed confidence that the Commonwealth had
scoured sufficient evidence to hold Mrs. Brennan for the grand jury. Judge
Pearsons has not yet rendered t he verdict of the inquest, but says that he
will do so next Thursday,
The
woman was taken to the Springfield jail this afternoon to await the hearing in
this city next Friday.
[“Behind
Bars, Mrs. Lizzie Brennan Is Placed, For
Alleged Poisoning of Her Son. - In Court at Holyoke She was Calm and Composed.
- Was Pleads Not Guilty and Case is Continued. - Her Daughter Wails
Piteously She is Locked Up.” The Boston Daily Globe (Ma.), Aug. 2, 1889, p. 1]
FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 3): Holyoke, Mass..
Sept. 27.—Simultaneously with
the grand jury's finding of a true bill
against Mrs. Lizzie Brennan, the alleged murderess, this afternoon,
Judge Pearson makes known the verdict of the inquest, which unequivocally
states that she caused the death
of Thomas Brennan by administering to
him arsenical poison.
[“Squarely
Charged to Mrs. Brennan.” The Boston Daily Globe (Ma.), Sep. 28, 1889, p. 1]
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FULL
TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Springfield, Mass., Jan. 4.—Mrs. Lizzie Brennan, under
indictment for murder, for poisoning her son, Thomas, last summer, at Holyoke,
for his life insurance. died at the county jail in this city yesterday from
Bright's disease.
[“No
Trial on Earth.” Newark Daily Advocate (Oh.), Jan. 4, 1890, p. 1]
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NOTE:
Some reports have the spelling “Brenan.”
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