MR. AND MRS. COLBURN – THE ALLEGED BUFFENBERGER POISONERS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 8, 16 October 1871, Page 3

MR. AND MRS. COLBURN - THE ALLEGED BUFFENBERGER POISONERS.

The principal character, in this now famous case has been spoken of as a woman of remarkable beauty. Those of us who see her sitting iu this examining court can see very little foundation for such a statement. What she might have been when, eighteen years ago sho became the bride of an old man of 70 years, is but dimly seen now. She is somewhat above the ordinary height. Her complexion is dark, in keeping with her abundant dark hair and brownish gray eyes. Her features are rather small, but well formed, and her face wears in repose a thoughtful, half-anxious aspect, wonderfully iu its contrast with its animation when the merry sparkle of her eyes is wakened by conversation. Hers is not ’a sympathetic face. It would not win a child’s confidence ; it might command its respect. She is dressed with remarkable plainness for one who has risen from a couutry girl to the possessor of nearly a million dollars and to the position of a New York banker. Sh« wore yesterday a plain black alpacca dress with brown linen overskirt, and close filling basque. To-day she wore a half-mourning striped silk. With her simple Leghorn hat, plainly trimmed, sho could not be distinguished from any well-to-do farmer’s wife of Madison county. She tries to engage herself in reading during tho examination, and for that purpose she is supplied with tho daily papers and with a magazine, but her eyes continually wander from the printed page to the witness or to the attorneys. To-day, however, she has eschewed reading altogether. Her husband, the well-known war correspondent of the World, sits by her side with the same unmoved face he wore when looking into the jaws of death before Vicksburg. He has no concern about the issues of this trial ; he already sees his wife triumphantly acquitted of the grave charge against her. This is what is whole manner reveals. He says he and Mrs Colburn are daily in receipt of letters from friends aud strangers, expressive of sympathy, and expressing explanations of the presence or arsenic in the remains of Peter Buffenbarger. The letters are so numerous that he cannot reply to them.'— Correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette.