Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-19


'Chtidrcn.
Correspondence of the Chicago Inter- Ocean.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, September 7.-On
of the most slckening cases of Grim
and horror that modern journal ha
ever had OCCASION to. record, has 1us
b en- developed in the neighborin,
state Of Wisconsin-a case sufficient il
all ITS horrible details to almost cans,
the human mind to believe that Sata1
takes mortal form in which to work on
his superhuman iniquities. A shor
time since telegram to the Inter- -Ocea,
announced that Mrs. Charlotte Lamb
OF Trimbelle, Wis.,, had been arrested
on suspicion of numbering he,
husband, and now a further de
velopment of facts bring tt
light the moral certainty that this fieni
in female form is not only guilty OF that
act, but: that she also killed her two
children and two neighbors, aud pos
sibly two others. This sickening record
of possible and certain crime dates al
far back as the year 1854. at winch time
. former wife of Mr.. Lamb died, and
within" q year afterward a young lady
to whom he was paying attention, bott
in q sudden and mysterious manner
The present Mrs. Lamb was at thai
time an inmate of his family, and these
later developments have aroused. the
suspicion that these, unfortunate per
sons also we're. victims to her mali9.
nancy: The record the last two year,
is as follows: :
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb have been livina
on farm at Trimbelle since 1866, in 4
'neighborhood of devoted Methodists,
of which society Mrs. Lamb was ap
.parenslya a faithful and efficient mem.
Der, and it is owing to this fact that
suspicion, which might otherwise have
been openly expressed against her, has
been allayed. For some eighteen
months previous to September, 1871,
the husband and .7.rMife 50 had
been. living in q more or less
only declared state OF feudal-
ism. owing to the refusal of the hus-
band to deed the property over to her;
he declaring that she should have her
third, and the children the rest, in case
of his demise. On the 18th of Septem-
Der, 1871, Mr.. Lamb was taken with a
singular malady while at work in the
corn field, and died in great agoDy y in
a few moments. The death was ascr,b-
ed to hear disease; Again Mrs. Lamb
made unsuccessful attempt to get con-
troll of the entire farm, saying that she
expected that the children would turn
her out of doors when she got old.
Last May the son Orrin, a lad of IS
years, in good health, was suddenly
taken sick and died in half an hour af-
ter eating piece of bread and butter
which he declared "tasted bitter. :"
This death was also attributed to heart
disease. On the oath of June the
daughter, Sarah, wss taken with con-
vulsions on.. died within an hour. -.
EARLY this spring Mrs. Lamb became
frequent visitor at the residence of a
near neighbor, Mr.. James Ott,naii.
She was not welcomed with great
deal of cordiality, but continued her
visits, and was often heard to declare q
great admiration for Mr.. Ottman. One
day after Mrs. Ottman had returned
from a call at Mrs. Lambs, where she
said that she had taken q glass of bit
ters, she was taken violently i'll. "A
physician was summoned, and 80 sue.
cessfu!ly treated the malady that the
lady rapidly improved. The next day
Mrs. Lamb called and was very at
tentive to the invalid. She prepared a
slice of toast for her, and administered
some of the medicine left by the ply
sician. Mrs. Ottman was instantly
taken with agonizing pains, and died
in fifteen minutes. Shortly after this
Mrs. Lamb was employed in the fa1uily
of Royal Garland, man living in Dia-
mond Bluff Township. On the 18th Of
August Mrs. Lamb turned Garland a;
cup of tea at dinner. He was imme-
diately taken with great pains, and
died in awful agony within an hour.
The almost unaccountable blindness
of the public now fell off rs by q shock,
and on the 26th of the month she Wa
arrested for causing the death of Gar
land. The scales once from the public
eye, the horrible chain of deaths caused
by the wholesale murderess, was dis
covered, and immediate Investigations
were commenced. Both strychnine and
arsenic were found on her premises.
The stomach Of Garland was exhumed
and examined, as were also those of
Mrs. Ottman and the two children, and
strychnine was found in each of them.
The trial of this inhuman monster will
come off at Ellsworth in November
next. I. E. u. G..