Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — A NEBRASKA BORGIA. [ARTICLE]

A NEBRASKA BORGIA.

She Is Charged with the Poisoning ot Three Members of Her Family. Mrs. Mary Anne Armagost is under arrest at David City, Neb., charged with poisoning her first husband, A. J. Roberts; the mother of her present husband, Mrs. Mary Armagost; and her 12-year-old stepdaughter, Hattie Armagost. Hattie died last June under suspicious circumstances. An autopsy was held, but the presence of embalming fluid in the stomach prevented a chemical analysis. This led to the exhuming of the body of Roberts, who died in February, 1887, and of Mrs. Armagost, who died in 1890. The stomachs were sent to Omaha and a chemical examination revealed arsenic. A Coroner’s Jury was impaneled and a verdict rendered to the effect that Roberts and Mrs. Armagost came to their death by arsenical poisoning at the hands of Mary Ann Armagost. The preliminary examination will be held Saturday.