Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-07-31
The.Polsoning of Children at Cincinnati .-Furih
Particulars.

The Poisoning of Children at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Particulars.
The Cincinnati Comm rcial of Wednesday has the
following particulars of the poisoning of nu nber Of
children, briefly mentioned yesterday by telegraph ::
Yesterday afternoon between the hours OF two and
four, couple of boys. apparently from IA 10 10
years of age, were observed saunterlng up Buckeye
street, densely populated German nelgh6orhood
scattering small loze7ges upon the sidewalk about
the size of peppermint drops In another part OF the
street rather robust looking man, dressed in black
coat, white pants and white hat, with box under
his arm, was also observed occasionally distributing
similar description of IOZenge only in larger guam
titles AS is usual in German localities, quite num-
Der of children playing upon the street, and
they greedy seized the tempting candies thus gralui
tously thrown in their way. Occasionally the man
would give package to persons he met, but in these
instances, the paitles declined tasting, suspecllng
something wrong Not so, however, with the IN
suspecng children, who greedy devoured the ito
them) dainty waits, and in a short time afterwards
they were taken with violent vomiting The neigh
borhood became speedily alarmed and Drs. Smith,
Davis and Fries were summoned who speedily de-
tected the action OF poison and upon chemist IN the
neghborhood, Mr.. Eckel, analysing lozenge, it was
found to be composed of equal parts of arsenic,
gar and -four In the track which the man, or rather
monster, had taken, many as 500 OF these death
dealing drops were found in one pile, and in another
spot one fourth pound of arsenic was found tied in
couple of parcels.
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least twenty children had more or less partaken Of
the insdious poison. The first victim was fine little
boy named John Shultz, aged nine years. He expired
at about O'Clock in the ,vening. We were present
when the coroner held his inquest and a more mel.
ancholy sight it has hardly been lot TO witness.
The mother of the dead child had few days previ-
Gus been confined, and in the same room her eldest
born lay stiff and rigid corpse, while the new born
infant sought in vain for nourishment from the ma
ternal Breast the fount of which sudden grief and
agony had dried. Her two other children had also
partaken of the poisonous drops, and lay sick in the
same room, but they pronounced out of danger.
Immediately upon the other side of the street, an
other promising child, named Henry Schwarts, about
o'clock last night is said to have breathed its last
and at the time visited the poisoned district
four or five other children, male and female, were
supposed TO he in very critical condition. We
heard also that several similar had occurred on
Fifteenth, between Race and Elm streets.
1t is with heartfelt pain that we are compelled TO
record crime which makes us blush for our common
nature. Such fend the perpetrator of the above
atrocities might well cause us to rather claim kim
dred with the brute and forswear our relationship
with the human species. 1t is to be hoped that no
pains will be spared in hunting the vampire 10 his
lair.