The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-10-15
SUPPOSED MURDER.


mockery of an inquest was held over him
and verdict returned of death by delir-
I ium tremens. He was buried on the 9th
inst. Some friends living near Logans-
port hearing Of it, came on, and suspi-
cion fixed so strongly on his wife, that
she was taken into custody, and post
mortem examination had Of the body of
the dead man by Drs. Brown. Bennett.
and Moore of this county. On the 18th.
! he body was found in an awful condi-
ton; the head, face, arms, hands, breast,
hips. bowels, knees and toes were fouad
most horribly bruised, and beaten as if
done with a maui, and the blows on tie
head, breast or bowels would either one
have caused death. The examination be-
fore the justice afterwards had, elected
the following facts. He was an honest.
industrious man, poor and of tolerable
steady habits, but sometimes drinked
little. His wife was regular Xantippr.
On the morning Of the 81 (as she statcd,)
he was sitting by the fire, and about s
o'clock, he complained of chill, having
had the ague occasionally before, and his
wife gave him pint of pepper tea. Soon
after he jumped up. ran into back
room, mostly empty, commenced scream
ing, tore OF his clothes. and fell naked
upon the floor. His wife ran to a saw
work raising hoom, and said her hus-
band had a fit. Some time after two men
went up and found him lying naked on
his back, on the floor of the back room.
the door shut, good deal OF blood on the
floor, and the bruises upon him-he sp-
peared to be in a spasm. His wife Was
eating breakfast in the other ROOM The
men did nothing. and went Immediately
away. leaving him as they found him. A
little before noon, she again went to the
mill and asked some one to go for doc
tor. Two men again went up, and found
him lying in the same place on the floor
on his face-bloody and horribly bruised
and iacerated. There was a straw tick
lying near him. and between him and the
tick was lying large iron ring beetle or
maui. They lifted him on to the bed
put pillow under his head, and left him
there naked without covering, and went
away. The woman again went down for
some one to get doctor. About night
r some nelghbors came in, and he was ly-
ing as left at noon. One Of them washed
him in salt and water, and gave him
some drink, and threw a feather bed over
. him. His clothes were not seen except
, the shirt, which was bloody and not torn.
| Soon after, some one took Off the feather
bed--he was hot as an oven-sieam
raised from him as from boiling caul-
dron, and he died directly, ha wing been
senseless apparently from the first. From
) language used before and Afterwards, and
from many circumstances, it was suppo-
sed that the fit was brought on first by
some kind of poison, and blow or more
f of the maui, but there was no evidence
20 fix the person with any certainty. At
ter death, the body became livid as in
death from anthony, arsenic, &c. and
chrystaliza tions were found on the BODY
The stomach presented an inhamed or
irrltated appearance, but the general APP
pearance of The body was entirely healthy
The stomach and contents are to be anal
yzed.
The Doctors said the bruises on the
r head, breast and illium. could not have
been inflicted by himself even by acct
dent in that room, and all the evidence
: was conclusive against anything like in.
sanity or mania q potu.
The poor creature came to an awful
and untimely death by some strange
means, which time alone can explain
: These are portion of the principal facts
as detailed to us, by persons present a:
the examination. If murdered, so brutal
9 q wretch as the murderer can never es
a cape justice. They may go free for
d time, but sooner or later, detection and
: punishment must overtake them.
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and Wah- pay-toan bands of Sioux Indi
ans. the United States obtain over q
mil ions Of acrac 1,inu aact Of lin.