Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-12
From the Buffalo n. Y. Courier.
Dreadful Tragedies in BuffalO-Murde
by an Indian DOctreSs,

ny an AnU1ah DOctress.
One or two evenings since hearse was. OBJ
served to halt at the house of an Indian doc
tress known as Mrs. Laachiel Mantou Flash,
a corpse quickly deposited and without at
pendants conveyed rapidly away. The police,
on making inquiry, were told that the de-
ceased was a Massachusetts lady, who had
died under Madame Laachiel's treatment, and
had been sent to the railroad depot for con-
veyance to her friends. The officers at once
inquired at the railroad depOts, whether any
such corpse had been left there, and received
IN each case a negative reply. They then in
CURED of the undertaken, who told them that he
had conveyed it to Lime Stone Hill and there
buried it, on the warrant of a certificate from
the doctress, as physician The coroner or
dered the immediate disinterment of the body,
and early next morning issued his warrant for
the arrest of Madame Laachiel. The order
was executed, and an examination of her house
followed, when a most horrible scene was re-
vealed. On the second floor, in small, I'M
ventilated room, lay young woman about 20
years OF age, whose life seemed to be ebbing
away as fast as possible. She was fearfully
emaciated. Her eyes protruded from their
sockets, her limbs were shrunken to skeleton
ic proportions, while her face presented a
CHASTITY appearance.
She had barely energy sufficient to give
her name and a partial history of her suffer
ings. Her name is Jenny johnson, and she
says she has sister residing at Niagara Falls,
married to a man named Mcdonald. The up
per floor was then examined, and another and
more horrible sight presented itself to view.
Here was found young woman in the throes
of death, alternating between intense agony
and wild delirium She spoke incoherently
about her babe, requesting pleadingly that it
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coming rational, talked as reasonably about
her condition as her terrible pains would adj
init. She gave her name as Mary Louisa
Dyer. Her brother, Robert Byer who is
well and favorably known in this city, was
sent for. He, in company with another sis
ter, appeared at the bedside of the dying
girl. Both failed to recognize her till her
dress was shown to the sister, when she faint
ed. We will not attempt to portray the scene
which followed this discovery. Crafty and
lovingly the brother and sister hung around
her couch in that dingy garnet till twenty min
utes past four o'clock, when she breathed her
last.
The young woman bore an excellent repu-
tation, and was beloved among a large circle
of friends She was to have been married ere
long to young man named j. NJ. p Butler
who is at present a resident at some point on
Lake Superior. Among her last Ineligible
expressions was request to officer Kent, to
''lCa'ite to John and tell him that poor MARY
waS gone" What a volume of tenderness,
penitence, and grief, is found in this last re-
quest of the dying woman The deceased
leaves a father, two brothers, Robert and
James (he latter being the brave captain of
the Buffalo tug who brought the news to fort
Monroe of the evacuation of Norfolk, and
one sister. Three men connected with the
house were arrested on suspicion of compiled
.ty. a post norton examination left no doubt
that the woman had died from the effects of
an abortion produced upon her. Her name
was Mary Hamilton, but nothing has transpir-
ed clearing up her history,
Madame Laachiel has practiced as an abor-
ZIONIST for several years in Buffalo. Her
house is fitted up for carrying on her Disgrace
tul profession on a most extensive scale, and
there is every evidence of its having been lit
tie else than monster slaughter house of I'M
fortunate women. During the two days the
house was in possession of the police no less
than twenty women, married and single, APP
peared at the door and inquired for Madame
Laachiel.