Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-09-21
ANOTHER POISON FIEND.
A Wisconsin Woman Murders Six People
by Poisoning.

The Chicago Inter. Ocean, Of the 10th,
| has his letter from ST. Paul, MINI, giving
| fresh details Of an affair which our tele.
| giams had briefly mentioned F.;
A short time since a telegram 70 the ln-
ter Ocean announced that a Mrs. Charlotte
| Lumb.of Trimblevile, had been arrested on
suspicion of murderidg her husband, and
nov further development of facts brings
10 light the moral certainty that this tend
in female form ls not only guilty Of that
act, but that she also killed h.r two chill
dIen and two neighbJrs, aud pJsslbly two
trhtIs.
This sick ping record Of possible aud
Ger an crime dates IA far back rs the year
1854. at which time fUtncr wife of MIR,
J. tnb drd, md within a yrar afterward "A
Young lady ~ whom he Was paying atlen-
ton, 10th IN q sudden and mysterious
manner. Tie present Mrs. Lamb was at
iipt fine .n inmate OF his family, aud
these l"itcf developments have aroused the
suspicion iii,t these unfortunate persons
also were victims to hef malignaney. The
record the last two years Is as follows:
Mr. and Mrs Lamb have been living on
farm at Trinbeville since 1866, In
neighborhood of devoted Methodists, of
Nhieh society Mrs. Lamb was apparently
Il faithful aud efficient member, and Il Is
OWING to this fact that suspicion, which
might otherwise have iieen Openly expires.
sed against her, has been allayed. For
eighteen months previous 10 September,
1sii, the husband and wife had been liv-
ing la more OF hess openly declared state
Of fcud, owing " TIE refusal of the
husband to deed the property OYER tn her,
he declaring that she should have her
third, and the children the rest in case Of
HE demise.
On the 18th Of September, 1871, Mr..
Lamb was takeTi With singular malady
while at work in corn field end died in
great agony in a few moments. The
death was ascrbcd to heart disease.
Again Mrs. Lamb made unsuccessful at
tcWpts 'C gCs control Of the eutire farm,
saying that She e.p.ctel that the children
would turn her out of dOof5 when she got
Old.
Last May the son Orrin, lad Of thir-
teen years, in good health, was suddenly
taken sick, and died in half an hour after
eating a piece of bread and butter which
lie declared ''tastCd bitter" This death
was also attributed to heart disease. On
the 2lth Of June the daughter, Sarah, was
taken with commissions and died within an
hour.
Early this spring Mrs. Lamb became
frequent visitor at the residence of a near
neighbor, MIR. James Ottnan. She was
not welcomed with great deal of cCrdi-
allty, but continued her visits, and was
often heard to declare Il great admiration
for Mr.. Ottman. One day after Mrs.
Ouman had returned from a call nt Mrs.
Lambs, whtrc she said that she had taken
a glass of bitters, she was taken Violently
III. \ physician was summoned, and 30
4nRna-afffIlt, frautll fhn unulalg that tho
lady rapidly improved. The next day
Mrs. Lamb called and was very attentive
to the invalid.
She prepared u slice Of toast for her and
administered some OF the medicine left by
the physician. Mrs. Ottman was instantly
taken with agonizlng pains and died in
fifteen minutes. Shortly after this Mrs.
Lamb was employed IN the family of
Royal Garland, a nan living in Diamond
BuN township. On the 18th of August
Mr.. Lamb turned Garland a cup of tea at
dinner. lie was Immediately taken with
great pains, and died in awful agony with
IN an hour.
The almost unaccountahle blindness of
the public now fell of as by shock, and
on the 2Gth OF the month she was arrested
for causing The death of Garland. The
scales once from the public eye the hoiri-
BILE chain Of deaths caused by this whole
sale murdere-s was discovered, and imme-
dately inves igatlOns We're commenced.
Both strychnme and arsenic were found on
her premises. The stomach of Garland
was cxhumcd and examined, as were also
those of Mrs Ottman and the two chill
drcn, and strychnine was found IL each OF
.hcm. The trial of this inhuman monster
will come eli 1T ElsNorlh in November
next.