The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-05-25

Iuuvihg space OF two OF three weeks, III
wrote second one, threatening Mr.
Black that ~ he did hot receive an Snswc
he would draw the remuneration from
aroihcr source.
Some two months or ten weeks sine,
Mr.. Black came TO Swans house aud ha,
an interview with Mira. Swsn in room
ab,s s'inlng the one occupied by me, ant
lwithc,it listening heard him say that he
would pSy her considerable sum u
money il She could get the trunks out oI
the house without Mr.. Swans know ledge
Mr.. S,cdn told me that Mr.. Blackburn
had Informed him thrt the Intention Of
sending hc clothing 10 Neto York caS
ltor The destruction Of The masses there.
STdn told me he kneu he contents n The
q RkS from ichat DR.. Blackburn had tod
him. Mr.. Swan once told me that Dr.
Black Hurn was going to leave some five
or six trunks Of clothing from yellow
fever at his house, but he afterwards told
u,e ,lierc were only three, and that DR..
l Blackburn had told him that he had
changed his mind, that he had engaged
the services OF colorcd man who would
Z take the other three with him; he also
] AOAu lUt lnUL llt was uIutN w tAHtNt llt
trunks as he had nothing but DE-. Black
burns word about their contents, aud
would prefer waiting HE return; Mr.
Swan also expressed his suspicious that
the other trunks taken by DIR. Blackburn
rcrc infected.
The drnyman who took the trunks to
Swans house, aud the bnr.koepcr who
saw them sent ftom DR.. Blackburn S
boarding place to Swans, testified TO the
facts coming under their knowledge
The latter sweSts he heard Or. blackburn
tell Swan TO sec that he attended to the
shipping of the baggage LETT behind by
the first opportunity, and that Swan
agreed TO do so. But the most revolving
! part Of the nurses, who explain how the
infected clothing was obtained. DIR.
Blacburn was stopping at the Hamilton
| Hotel, where some of the inmates were
suffering from yellow fever. Among
Others the housemaid was sick. and Dr.
Blackburn attended her. The nurse
says:
DR.. Blackburn said she must have
more covering, and be sweated more
requested a blanket from Miss Crowell,
but she told me she did not wish any
others used but those which had already
been done with the fever patients. did
not think the women required any extra
clothing as she was sweating profnso at
the time. When DR.. Blackburn returned
and found | had not pu. any extra blank
cts or covering over her, he seemed an.
noycd and told me to come TO his room;
aud did SO; and l then helped him to
| lit down trunk, from which he took
some guernsey coats, trousers, aud diifer-
ent things, all of them being woolen,
and laid them over her and around her,
as he said, to prevent the air getting to
her, and he ordered me not TO disturb
thom till he returned. He put the things
on the top of the bed. clothes. He took
the trunk, with my assistance, into the
room of the servant woman. During the
night the woman was SO exhausted by
the sweating and the weight OF the clothes,
that removed the things placed over her
by DR.. Blackburn down to her feet; and
when he returned at four o'clock on Sun
day morning he scolded me for removing
any of the things before he came. lie
hcR toot all of he things and pldc,d hem
back in his trunk. DR., blackburn SAID
tic womaa lcds suffering from Jellow te-
uer, which broke 10 about "a hours.
! a male nurse who had tended some
yellow fever patients at Mrs. Slater's,
testified as follows:
DE-. Blackburn attended one of the pa
tients that nursqd Captain Galloway
of the Confederate Army, who had lately
been pilut of a steamer, he was one that
lied. I only Intended him from O'Clock
on SUNDAY ni6hi, aud Sdied at a quarter
TO on Tuesday morning. DR.. blackburn
I came TO the house about IL O'Clock, and
remined three until he died; after he was
dead, Captain Stevens, Mrs. Siater's som
in. law asked what wos to be done with
the clothes | supposed he meant the
clothes he died in, and then DR.. Black
burn turned TO me aud said. "fou go
/ out of the room for little while," and
went out; Capt. Stevens Immediately fol.
lowed me and gave me directions to 60
at once and see about his being buried,
he then turned round and said | mus. 90
aud see what Is TO be dono about the
clothes; when | returned about an hour
a,terward, found the dead body shrouded
but saw nothing of the clothes that had
been taken from him; | don't know what
became of them; Just before he died he
had hemorrhage OF the lungs or at least
the Doctor said so and Capt Stevens
held a handkerchief al his mouth and re-
&C ivsd The blood: it was Capt. Steven;
4 handkerchief a white one OF the usua
: size for gentlemen; ] don't know what
become of the handkerchief; Capt. Ste
vens is 4 Southerner, he was captain ol
a vessel when the war first broke ou',
never packed any trunk at Mfs. Slater'si
the sheet on which he lay | buried, and
the other brd.clothes were thrown out o
window; Mrs. Slater told me she mis-
sed great many things.
The handkerchief placed by the con
sprators at the mouth OF their dying com
pauon, the clothes stripped from his dea'
{; body, the sheets stolen from the bed, ant
Z the garments placed around the sicl
house maid at the hotel all poisoned will
. yellow fever virus were all found in th'
Y three trunks sent by Blackburn to Swan
house, for the purpose of shipment to thu
: North. The other testimony showed tina
DR. Blackburn had claimed 20 belong L
Mississippi, that he came to Bermuda
= from Halifax, and that he returned Il
[; Halifax. II would be to the Nova SEQ
= lian authorities, il they would look aite
i this monster. s.H
Swan was committed for trial in defaul
c of surety, which he declined to give
c rreferring the security o. the Jail TO ia
(. cling his fellow. men, after the disclosure
o Of such horr bic villainy.
II
OF "I say, old fellow, what are you
r. politics - suid one friend, quizzing aac
IS iher. conservative ; my father was
r. conservative. "Ald what is your reli
m gon :" continued the other. "Protestan
ID my father was Protestant" was III
r | nnsvery "a nd whv are YOU bachelor