FULL
TEXT: Another female poisoner has been brought to justice. Recently, at
Germantown, Ohio, public attention was attracted to the simultaneous poisoning
by arsenic of three members of a family named Hanna, while visiting the house
of a kinswoman, one Sarah Earhardt. Fortunately the amount administered to each
of the intended victims proved insufficient to cause death. Upon investigation
evidence was produced, if correct, proving the woman Earlhardt to be as great a
monster as either Lydia Sherman, Jane Ann Cotton or Mrs. Grinder. She is now in
custody on a charge of having attempted to take the lives of the three Hannas,
and it is to be the intention of the State prosecuting counsel to introduce
testimony at the trial to show that she has poisoned her husband, her son’s
wife, her son-in-law’s child, and her husband’s first wife, all within a few
years. Minor crimes, such its the poisoning of juvenile animals and the burning
of numerous houses, are also said to be among the number of her achievements.
By the death of the Hannas she would have come into possession of a
considerable amount of property. The most extraordinary circumstance in
connection with this case is that the woman is upward of seventy years of age.
[“Another
Female Poisoner.” The Bloomfield Times (New Bllomfield, Pa.), Jun. 10, 1873, p.4]
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3 attempts; her husband, her son’s wife, her son-in-law’s
child, and her husband’s first wife.
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