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The Hillsdale Whig Standard
Tuesday, 4 August 1846

         DISTRESSING AFFAIR - the death of MRS. HARRIET RUSSELL was
       announced in this paper on the 20th ult. Some suspicions 
       having arisen that she died from poison, Mr. Coroner Loomis;
       summoned a jury, and on the 18th inst proceeded to the Ceme-
       tery and disinterred the body. The stomach and bowels were
       removed by the physicians, and taken to Ann Arbor, to be
       tested by Prof. Douglass. On Friday last an affadavit was
       received from Mr. Douglass, giving the result of four dif-
       ferent tests, each of which detected the presence of arsenic.
       On Saturday the jury found a verdict that she died from the
       effects of poison, administered by some person unknown.
         MR. JAMES G. RUSSELL, husband of the deceased, has been
       taken into custody and is now undergoing a preliminary 
       examination. It is becoming that, so far as possible, the
       community abstain from forming or expressing opinions upon
       the subject, as it is of vast importance that if the case
       ever come to trial, the person accused of this most awful
       act, may be tried by an impartial jury. We shall probably
       publish some account of the examination next week.
       
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