Stomach injected with 1 gram of Sulphate of Strychnia in solution. Animal buried 6 days.

THE CASE OF HAYDEN.

BY PROF. M. C. WHITE, M. D., OF NEW HAVEN.

In the famous case of State vs. H. H. Hayden, on trial for murder, before the Superior Court of New Haven, Conn., at the October Term, 1879, which cost the State of Connecticut about forty thousand dollars and resulted in a disagreement of the jury. This case remained on the docket till October, 1896, when a nolle was entered. One of the most important questions before the court was the discrimination by microscopic examination of parcels of arsenious acid, white arsenic, from different manufactories or obtained from different dealers.

Sept. 3, 1878, Mary Stannard was found dead in the woods in Rockland in the town of Madison, Conn., with her throat cut. Post mortem examination revealed the presence of about sixty grains of white arsenic in her stomach not dissolved.

H. H. Hayden, the accused had, on the day of the murder, purchased an ounce of arsenic of a druggist in Middletown, and the State charged that he had administered some of that arsenic to the deceased, Mary Stannard.

Mr. Hayden claimed that he had placed the whole of the arsenic which he purchased in a tin box and had put it away in his barn for safety till he could use it for killing rats.

The State took possession of a box of arsenic found in Hayden's barn, where he said he had placed it, and having obtained also a sample of arsenic from the druggist who Read before the Medico-Legal Congress, September, 1895.

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