Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas -Crawford County April 5, 1890 POISONED HIS WIFE Prairie Grove, March 28, -- Ben Heath, colored, passed through this place today in chains, on his way to the county jail in Fayetteville, having been committed by Justice Thomas Campbell at Boonesboro, for poisoning his wife with strychnine, resulting in her death at that place last Saturday. The evidence seems conclusive, and his actions after the death of his wife seem to confirm the case against him. He requested the druggist from whom he obtained the drug not to tell anyone of his purchase; he tried to prevent a post mortem examination, claiming as a reason that the deceased was his wife. Failing in his purpose he attempted to make his escape. He had tired of his wife and had become enamored of another colored girl, which seems to have been the incentive to the commission of the crime. His wife would soon have become a mother. Fran Alverson Warren