The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-03-31
Lambs Confession.

The following is confession Of the
murder of his wife, made to the magis-
trate before whom he was examined in
st. Louis, on Saturday.
was married to Sarah s. Lamb at
the Court House in Quincy, ILL.,, in No.
vember, 1856, by Justice of the peace.
did not take my wife with me to Men,
dota, but left her with her father in
Hamilton. | went in November to her
fathers house to remove her for the pur-
pose of going South to spend the winter.
Myself and wife came to st. Louis, ar
irving on the 9th or 18th or 18th Of
November. We got here before day
light in the morning, and took breakfast
and dinner at Kings Hotel. We left
Kings Hotel and went to the Astor
House, on franklin Avenue, kept by
Harmon Norp. During the time re-
manned at the Astor House my wife was
unwell. l had physicians attending on
her-Dr. Christopher and DR.. Washing
ton. Her sickness was caused by my
giving her poison-strychnine, obtained
on Broadway. bought the poison for
the purpose Of giving it to her. think
/ gave it to her twice. My intention
was to destroy her life. went for ply
sicians to keep the people in the house
from suspecting. l administered their
prescriptions. I think she recovered
from the effects of the poison had given
her. She vomited up the poison before
the prescriptions were administered,
think. 1t must have been three or four
days after we arrived at the Astor House
that | gave her the poison. She was
confined to her bed as much as two
weeks. About the 18th of December we
left the Astor House, the sun being per-
hapS two hours high. / told her we
were going down the river to Carondelet
We left the Astor House in baggage OF
express wagon. Nobody but the driver
went with us. My wife seemed perfectly
willing to go. We went down to the
lower ferry landing. 1 do not know
who the driver of the baggage wagon
was, nor the number Of his wagon.
think the driver was colored man.
We went into little room on the ferry
wharf boat. There was a young man on
the landing, and asked him if my wife
might sit in there; he said she might.
told two boys to bring NE skitf. We
staid there until the boys came up with
the skiff. paid six or seven dollars fo'
it. We had been there about an hour
before the boys brought the skiff. We
went down she river and stopped be-
low the steamboats, about fifty rods
where leyee or street is built out to
wards the river. stopped to get :
weight, telling my wife it was to put il
the bottom Of the boat to keep it steady
Two boys brought stone apiece. die
not get out of the skiff. NY real design
in getting those stones was to sink tn,
body Of mys wife. After getting TIT
stones we went on past an. island, with
out any trees on it, on the Missouri side
did not see Carondelet at all. | di,
not notice more than one island Of tn
kind spoken OF. We went down tn
river about half way Of the island, on tn
cast side, near the channel where tn
steamboats, run. 1t was getting consid
erably dark. 1t was rather on the Mis-
souri, side, about forty or fifty yards froI
the shore. The steamboat channel
between the Illinois shore and where W
were. When we got there | put IN.
hand on the back of her neck and push
ed her head down under the water, keep
ing !: under the water about two MIN