Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-10

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-Four more days passed unproftablJ
away, and was becoming weary of this
business when about FIVE O'Clock in the
afternoon the apothecary galloped up tC
his door on borrowed horse, jumped of
with surprising eelerity, and with face
as white as his own magnesia, burst out
as he hurried into the room where I was
sitting: Here's pretty kettle Of fish
Henry Rogers has been poisoned, and by
his wife =
Poisoned = 1 3e
Yes, poisoned; f; although, thanks to
my being on the spot, think he'll recov-
er. But must instantly go to DR.. Ed
wards T; will tell you all when return.
The promised ALI was this Morgan
was passing slowly by Jackson's, in the
hope of seeing either Mr.. or Mrs. Rogers,
when the servant woman, Jane Riddet,
ran out and begged him to come in as
their lodger had been taken suddenly i'll.
Ill, indeed! The surface of his body was
cold as death, and the apothecary quickly
discovered that he had been poisoned
with sulphuric aseid (oil of vitriol, a
quantity of which he, Morgan, had sold a
few days previously to Mrs. Rogers, who,
when purchasing it, said Mr., jackson
wanted it to apply to some warts that an
noyed him. Morgan fortunately knew the
proper remedy, and desired Jackson, who
was in the room, and seemingly very an
xious and furried, to bring some soap
instantly, solution of which he propo-
sed to give Immediately to the seemingly
dying man. The woman servant was
gone to find Mrs. Rogers, who had left
about ten minutes before, having first
made the tea in which the poison had
been taken. Jackson hurried out of the
apartment, but was gone so long that
Morgan, becoming impatient, scraped a
quantity of plaster off the wall, and ad-
ministered it with the best effect At last,
Jackson came back, and said there was
unfortunately not a particle of soap in the
house. A few minutes afterwards the
young wife, alarmed at the woman SER
wants tidings flew into the room, in an
agony of alarm and grief. Stimulated
alarm. crocodile grief, Mr.. Morgan said !;
for there could, in his opinion, be no
doubt that she had attempted to destroy
her husband. Mr.. Jackson, on being
questioned, peremptorily denied that he
had ever desired Mrs. Rogers to procure
sulphuric acid for him, or had received
any from her-a statement which SO con-
founded the young women that she in
stantly tainted, The upshot was that Mrs.
Rogers was taken into custody and lodg-
cd in prison.
This terrible news flew through Farm
ham like wildfre. In few minutes it
was upon every body's tongue the hints
of the quarrelsome life the young couple
led, arttully spread by Jackson, were re-
called and no doubt appeared to be en-
tertained of the truth of the dreadful
charge. had no doubt either, but my
conviction was not that of the Farnham
folk. This, then, was the solution of the
struggle had seen going on in Jackson g
mind this the realization of the dark
thought which had inpcrfectly read in
the sinister glances of his restless eyes.
He had intended to destroy both the. hus-
band and wife-the one by poison. the
other by the law Doubtless. then, the
E15OO had been obtained and this was
the wretched mans internal device for
retaining it Iwent over with Morgan
early the next morning to see the patient,
and found that, thanks to the prompt an
tidote administered and DIR. Edwards
subsequent active treatment. he was
rapidly recovering. The still suffering
young man, l was glad to find, would,
not believe for moment in his wife s
guilt. watched the looks and move
ments of Jackson attentively-a scrutiny
which he, now aware of my vocation, by
no means appeared to relish.
Pray said l, suddenly addressing
Riddet, the woman servant-'pray, how
did it happen that you had no soap in
such house as this yesterday evening .
No soap!' echoed the woman with a
stare of surprise, why
Mono SOAP hastily broke in her
master with loud and menacing emphasis.
There was not morsel in the house. l
bought some afterwards in Farnham.'
The cowed and bewildered woman
skunk away. was more than satisfied
and judging from Jackson's countenance
which changed beneath my look to the
color of the lime-washed wall against
which he stood, he surmised that l was.
Ny conviction however, was not evil
dence, and felt that should need even
more than my wonted good fortune to
bring the black crime home to the real
perpetrator. For the present, at all
events. must keep silence-a resolve
found hard to presist in at the examina-
ton of the accused wife. an hour or two
afterwards before the county magistrate.
Jackson hardened himself to iron, and
gave his lying evidence with ruthless
self-possession. He had not desired Mrs.
Rogers to purchase sulphuiic acid had
not received any from her. In addition
also to his testimony that she and her
husband were always quarrelling. it was
proved by respectable person that high
words had passed between them on the
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