Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-08


/ Itwas written with hard lead penci
on an ordinary bit OF white, unruiet
Writing paper.
Then came BrcwSter's evidence. II,
identified the prescription. Wa6n he fount
there was something wrong with Mis-
sSelby, the lecensed, hewenttoAIarcclin'
Iandsaw Dfake, who admitted to lhavn,
tflifeesgrains of atfopiain the ptesofip
tbn ihstsadhf the sdfnc quantity of assa
'fiSs fa%sh osmS,hcdicatevidcnce As Do th,
effects of atropia, and the amount tha
should be given in dose which, made hal
a grainito !eashipD, when ono-sixth bfS ,
grain should be enough.
1t all looked very bad for poor Charley
and saw plainly that, in the present stat,
of the case, Sanford could not help hin
any. There was only one question n,
asked DIR. Brewster, which seemed rather
to bother-the. doctor, and was suggestiy,
to me- ID 'h ftthaftB FafII
>" Doctor" he said, chow was it that
when you suspected something WRONG
with Miss Selby you left her for nearlS
half an hour with the ignorant people o
this house, and went yourself down tC
Marcelin' S, instead of trying something tC
relieve the deceased, and sending mes
Scngcr TO MarCchnStT .t.ft ..tA
DIR. Brewster said he wanted to be per
sonall satisfied e--E.T n -, Z
-" And how was it, DOCTOR that, wher
you were personally satisfied, you con
tented yourself with using only simple
remedies, such as sulphato of zinc, and
did not call in other aid until Miss Sclby
was past all hope?" .r...,.y ..-,-,.,
DR., Brewster answered that he had
acted to the best of his Judgment, and he
was not responsible to anybody, even il
he had erred, which he did not q And
so closed the inquest, and Charley was
committed to stand his trial for man.
slaughter, his bail having been placed al
ten thousand dollars. OF course, bail was
impossible, and Charlie went to prison
chcered into a little hope by Sanford and
myself, but still nearly ,heart-broken
or myself visited him daily, and
did our. best to cheer him !; but the pros
pect was dark, and the State Prison
loomed up before The day of his trial
was Approaching, and there was not bit
of evidence to submit in defence, save
good character, and recommendations from
former employers and from Marcelin, all
OF which was poor hope.
One day business led me past the house
where Miss Selby had died, and l do moi
know what induced the idea, but l thought
| would go in. The only idea had, in
fact, was to see the messenger who took
the prescription, and talk with him
though knew him to be only an ignorant
boy. l saw the landlady-it was a board.
g-house-who was kind, mothcrly sort
of woman, and, after little gossip with
her, got her interested in Oharley's case,
as an orphan, and without friend in the
world but myself. Then l found that the
old lady was troubled with dyspcptic pain,
which undertook to cure, sending out
for medicine on the spot, without letting
It cost her anything, and finally won upon
Mrs. Bramble so, that, US l was going
away, she said "Now, doctor, why don't
ye come and take my little front reception
room, and put up sign here? There
amt no doctor anywhars around this
neighborhood,} and I'll board yc very
cheap, iist to have yc in the house on
'casion."
laughed at the old lady's proposition,
and told her that l would think il over by
next day; 1 did SO, and saw that Mrs.
Bramble's house was much superior in
appearance and location TO the one in
habited. The result was, struck bar
gain with the old lady, and moved imme-
diately to her domicile. hadn't been
there three days, when, one morning,
Mrs. Bramble, who was very fond of goS-
siping in myirooHl, said !. doctor, can't
help thinking all the time about that poor
gal that was pisencd upstairs. / haven't
had that room opened since the morning
after she died. Seems to me us if't might
be haunted
"Yesl" l responded,
"There war something strange, too,
about her; and that doctorman that came
to see her so much"
"Yes /" / said again, pricking up my
cars, and looking inquiringly at her.
"Thar was so much sneaking in and out,
and coming at all kinds of queer times /;
and then they'd quarl, and, when he went
away, she'd fret and cry SO, that she'd be
c'cnIa'most sick" Aa - N@tt-
Hallop l said to myself "here's anew
shape to this matter" And then l said
to Mrs. Bramble, "Where did Miss Sclby
come from ?"
"Well, that's the strangest thing of all,
doctor. She never would tell where she
came from and the most that she ever
dropped was, that she was from New
Hampshire; but then her name never was
Selby in this world"
How do you know that, Mrs. Bran
BILE ?" 49, .- z4-
because every bit of her underclothes
had another name rubbed out on 'cm and
one day there came man here, and asked
for Miss Goodwin, and, when he was told
that no sich person lived here, he insisted,
and said he'd seed her come in here.
Then, when this was talked of at tea-table,
before Miss Sclby, she got dreadful excited
about it, though nobody said a word about
her being the one that just come in before
the man asked for Miss Goodwin"
The old lady was making some revela-
tons here that stirred mygcuriosity but
could not see how they could help Char
lcy's case, except that, if there was any
thing mysterious between the dead woman
and the doctor, might sift it ont, and use
it to soften his evidence against Charley,
or, perhaps, force his interest to help the
poor boy. "All's fair in love and war"
and so l took hold of the slender clew 10
trace out who Miss Sclby, or Goodwin,
might be The last, l Thought, was the
true name, and, although il seemed absurd
to enter upon the search, in such way,
concluded to write to every postmaster in
New Hampshire. | framed a letter, say
ing that there was something of great inn
portance pending to family by the name
of Goodwin, somewhere in that State, and
requested each postmaster, If the name
existedin his locality, to please to send
me list of members of the family, present
and absent, especially the latter, and that
if the necessary information proved to be
ELECTED through him, he should be well
reYarded.9 TFI iIIS 81
This letter brought eleven responses,
one of which Vas from u member of the
Goodwin family, into whose hands the
postmaster of the town of NJ had
put my lettsr. Ihad no soonef read this
letter OF Mrs. Sarah Goodwin, than
cried "Eureka!" The very tone of il
showed mother seeking for her lost child
from the expression she put upon my ask
ing for the names of the absent. She
songht a daughter who had left her year
before, and the description, which read
to Mrs, Bramble, was recognized in a mo
ment. OF course, Mrs. Goodwin must bC
sent for. Her daughters effects were still
in the locked-up room, and they troubled
moor Mrs Bramble almost as badly as /
they had been ghost therefore wrote
to Mrs. Goodwin that, if she would come
10 Boston, could give her intelligence o