CARLISLE, Pa., Jan. 15.--In May last Mrs. Mary Kiehl, an octogenarian, was murdered by poison in this borough. For complicity in the crime, Mrs. Catherine Zell and W. H. Wynkoop, a Justice of the Peace, were arrested. Mrs. Zell was convicted in November last of having administered the poison, and to-day Wynkoop was put on trial for having procured the murder. Great interest is felt in the case because of the prominence of the accused. In his opening the District-Attorney said the Commonwealth would prove that Wynkoop, several years since, purchased a package of arsenic at a Carlisle drug store, from which the poison which caused Mrs. Kiehl's death was taken. Testimony would also be submitted to show that the prisoner had forged the name of a woman on the package which was found in Mrs. Kiehl's house, for the purpose of diverting suspicion from him and attaching it to her. It would be further shown that he had a powerful motive in getting the old woman out of the way, as she had expressed a purpose, shortly before her death, to change her will so that he would not become the possessor of her property. The testimony to-day showed the presence of considerable quantities of arsenic in the stomach and other portions of Mrs. Kiehl's body.

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Unknown, "The Kiehl Case," Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Friday, 16 January, 1880, Page 2.