FULL TEXT: Henrietta Williams, colored, of No. 1013
Twenty-ninth street, was arrested Sunday night by Chief Deputy Sheriff A. C.
Logan and is being at the county jail pending a murder investigation as a result
of the mysterious death of Albert Harris, also colored, who was living with the
woman. Chief Deputy Logan said yesterday that he believes the man was slowly
poisoned and that the case is identical with the death of the woman’s first two
husbands, within the past few years. Mr. Logan also said yesterday that he had
received reports that this was the third man to enter the “great beyond,”
starting the journey from the woman’s house, and that he believed he had a case
that would end in a murder trial.
Dr. R. E. Glass has removed the dead man’s stomach, which
has been sent to Tallahasse for analysis, and Justice of the Peace William
Norona will hold a coroner’s inquest over the body Thursday afternoon. In the
meantime Chief Deputy Logan is working on the case and expects to have some
strong evidence to present at the hearing.
Harris was sick last week and Thursday had a doctor, who
left some medicine. The man got no further attention before his death. The death
certificate has not been signed, pending the examination of the man’s stomach
to determine the cause.
[“Death of Negro May Lead To Murder Trial – Logan Believes
Man Slowly Poisoned – Woman Held Over for Inquest – First Two Husbands Died In
Mysterious Wat,” Tampa Morning Tribune (Fl.), May 29, 1918, p. 5]
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FULL TEXT: No report has yet been received by the sheriff’s
office from the state chemist with regard to the contents of the stomach of
Albert Harris, colored, who died last week under suspicious circumstances at
the home of Henrietta Williams, also colored, who is held in the county jail
pending investigation. Her husband is alleged to have died several years ago
under similar circumstances, slow poisoning being suspected. The woman frankly
admits that neighbors gossiped and secretly accused her of having poisoned her
husband, and she frequently gives way to spells of hysterical crying. However,
she vehemently denies having in any way hastened the deaths of either her husband
or Harris.
[“Woman Dies Killing Harris,” Tampa Morning Tribune (Fl.),
Jun. 1, 1918, p. 5]
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FULL TEXT: After being confined in the county jail for six
months awaiting trial on a charge of murder, Henrietta Williams, a negress was
turned loose yesterday when she appeared in court, Circuit Judge F. M. Robles
dismissing the case when State Attorney H. C. Gordon announced a lack of
evidence.
The woman was accused of administered ground glass in the food
of Albert Harris, with whom she lived, but there was no one in court yesterday
who could testify to the manner in which Harris died. An examination of the
contents of his stomach showed some small particles that resembled ground glass
but Dr. Glass said yesterday he could not swear that this substance caused the
negro’s death.
Several other murder trials are scheduled for early in
December in circuit court.
[“Henrietta Williams Charged With Murder, Again A Free
Woman,” Tampa Morning Tribune (Fl.), Nov. 16, 1918, p. 5]
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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.
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