Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-12
The Late MIR. Wagner Poisoned.
STARTIIG AFFAIR, ,

The Late MIR. Wagner Poisoned.
STARTLIG AFFAIR, l.r
On Friday OF last week our community
was thrown into state of great excite
ment and CONSERVATION by the announce
ment that DR.. Wn. Eroemmeg haul vol
UNFAIRLY confessed that the late Barnabas
Wagner had come TO his death by poi
son administered by himself for the con-
sideration of two numbered dollars, to be
paid by Mrs. Wagner and her brother.
and surrendered himself as u prisoner.
Since then Mrs. Wagner and her brother
have also been arrested and are now in
our county Jail.
The body of Mr.. Wagner vas exhumed
on Saturday, the stomach taken out and
sent to Columbus for analyZatlon. On
Sunday an inquest was held before Cor
oner Shultz. Dir. Froemmeg was CALLED
to the witness stand. and with perfect
self-possession and as much apparent in =
difference as il he himself WAS not involv-
cd testified substantially as follows:
QUEsTIoN-Did You know Barnabas
Wagner before his death. and when did
you first see him?
ANswER-I think it was the Goth Of
Sept. last.
O-State whether you had any con-
versation relative to Mr.. Wagner before
he died?
Ayes Sir.
Q-With whom?
A-W1th Robert Caster.
Q-When was that conversation?
A-On the 10Th of Sept, ard. on the
road from his house to Kirby.
Q-What was the conversation?
A-Robert said to me, there is an old
man up stairs pretty sick. He asked me
if | can't give him medicine tor his sick
ness? | said, / never seen him and don't
know what his sickness was. He says,
its the same as the old man and the old
woman was and died with. l told him
could not give him medicine until | seen
him myself. He says, this old man is
pretty.sick all the time. | asked him, is
this old Mr.. Wagner? And he says, yes.
Then he asked me if 1 could give him
medicine to kill him slow in two or
three days? and | told him I could not
do it, never 1 do it. Then, after while,
he said him and his sister would give ME
two hundred dollars. | told him | wont
do it. Next day he saw me again. and
asked me the same question. L t)ld him
again, Mr.. Robert, don't like to do it.
/ am very poor man and never do such
things. lie asked me again and said he
would give me two hundred dollars right
of. and you can go away right OFT and
nobody will know it. told him | will
do it if | got my money to buy medicine.
He asked me how much | want and how
much it cost. | told him S1.O0 Or $l.25.
He says to me, III give you $l.25 to get
it.'' | told hin it Was pretty hard thing
to get this medicine here in town, where
every body knows me. He says to me,
My sister and | will pay the way and
you go some where and get it," and she
paid me 81. 50 and he give me S2.75 to go
to Carey and get it. The conversation
took place in Forest, in the saloon across
from the L. r., thin is where he gave me
the money. He paid me for tending his
mother this same day: he gave me tif-
teen dollars for tending her.
Next conversation was in Upper San
duSky. the evening of the next day. He
says to me, when | shall send Il dis
patch for you. then you come yourseli
and bring this medicine along with you
said L will. In the evening of the 2lst
he sent a dispatch that his mother was
worse-I shall come on the next train in
the evening. He met me at the train and
took me from Forest. and before got to
the house his mother was dead.
Q-What time did you get to the
house?
A-About O'Clock OR go.
Q-W here did you stay that night?
old lady died.
Q-Had you procured any poison be-
fore you went there.
A-Yes, sir; L procured it before
started, at the first drug store across the
| street-AYres'.
Q-What time did you receive that dis
| patch?
A bout half an hour before the train
| in the evening.
Q-How much poison did you get and
| what kind?
Alt was strychnine, one little vial
| (shows the viall.
Q-You may row state what, if any
| thing. was said by any person about adj
ministering poison to Mr.. Wagner?
| A-NeXt morning about Z O'Clock, Mr.
| Wagner was pretty sick up stairs. Mrs
! Wagner says to me, doctor, See what
tile matter with my husband. went VI
stairs, the old man was out of bed, hf
[ asked me for drink of water; | asked
| him if nobody give him some waite
sometimes; he says es, but not Often
| take the tin-cup and take it dowl
stairs and give it to Mrs. Wagner, L toll
her he wants drink of water, to get
quarter of acupful and set it on the tablt
and when she brought it she asked me i
| I got that medicine along her brothe
had told me about.
Robert Caster was in the same room
next to the bed he asked me again if
got this medicine; | told him yes | go
it here; then [ take this medicine 0at @
my pocket, put it on the table and he toll
me not to give him too much, SO h
would not die for three or four days.
Q-Did she hear this conversation
A-Yes; she was then sitting on til
floor; talked still and low so that no
| h-I hno h,.t Mrs., tafr nd pphn
Caster. 1 put in this tin cup greatl
near one grain, out of this same bottl
I shoWd her. Robert left the house a
the same time to go into the yard.
told Mrs. Wagner please hand this to til
old man, am tired, did not sleep an,
last night. She says to me. Il feel sicl
give it to him yourself" / went tup stair
and give it to him; he drank about
quarter of a tin-cupful. After while
stepped down again and we:lt outsid
in the yard; Robert Caster seen me i
the var and asked me i took Mr. Wag
ner the medicine, then he said Did yOl
give him so much that he would liv
two or three days?" [ waited about a
hour after he had drank the water, ,whei
/ came into the house Mrs. Wagner say
shall 90 up stairs and see her husband
| saw the old man up stairs and he aske
me he wanted Il little milk-S0up. / Wen
down and told Mrs. Wagner and anotl.e
lady to make little soup In u quarte
OF an hour they brought the soup in an
set it on my table. | think it was ar
otter lady. don't know her name, 81
works in the kitchen of Casters. MIR
Wagner got in the same place next {
the table. told her | put from = 10
, of a grain of the same strychnine in;
, told Mrs. Wagner this was all L woul
give him and she saws "plPaSe give if
| him yourself. feel so sick-like.n L stel
pea up stairs and give it to him mysel
:, Q-Who else was about the house b,
sides Mrs. Wagner and her brother.
Al think Mrs. Wagner's sister, MI
: Lisle.
? Q-How much did you put in the ia
time? .-. .i.a