Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-03
MEMORIES OF ONE WHO WAS
.e HANGED. is.

It has sometimes happened that when
man has been hanged he has, either
through the carelessness or unskiltul-
ness of the hangman, or some other
unforeseen cause, escaped death.
Some people may imagine that IN such
n lease there is not so much disgrace in
helng hanged. Let them not indulge
in this belief any longer, for |. who
speak from my own personal experience,
have found the situation a very un-
pleasant one.
Those whose fate has led them to
the scaflold, and who have had the
misfortune to be cut down too soon,
have my sincere pity. There are many
persons who, on such an accession, would
be very happy to be cut down before
life was extinct, and they think that |
have very strange opinions, But |
reason from experience, ErpcH0
crcder Robcrto. That Is to say, have
been hanged although my name is not
Robert You shall know why, and
what was the result of it. As for those
capricious minds who think it strange
that should write my history in my
last will and testament, | would simply
ask them where they expect me to
write It, Do they imagine that one
who has been hanged ought to write a
book ahont II Z
1t is now twenty years since the event
of which ! write took place, but the
stigma of having been hanged, which
follows me in spite of myself, is none
the less bad recommendation among
scwupulous people. era.- sr r..
VAS an honest grocer of Lausanne,
my birthplace. | had a hourishing
business, and every day added some
thing to my fortune. Ii was my GUS
tom, in common with my brother
grocers, TO add mutton tallow to the
sailed butter, flour to the powdered SUI
gar, sage leaves to the tea, cider to the
cognac, water to the tobacco, sawlust
TO the ground pepper, and roast beans
to the coffee. These little auXiiaries
were not noticed from the fact that
their consumption wils more on less
general
had a clerk who was an excellent
hand at that business, and he mixed
'the different articles so skilltully to-
gether that no one found any fault
with the merchandise Proud of his
success, he wished to do better. He
imagined that with jalap, flour. the
juice of white prunes, and | do not
know what other drug besides, but
something less innocent, perhaps. he
could make the honey go further; but
hls composition produced an effect ne
certainly did not foresce. About n
dozen OF Our customers who used that
honey We're taken sick, and some OF
them died. | was the first to suspect
the truth. placed a jar of pure honey
i'll the shop, and carried the adulter-
ated honey into my wite's rooon, for |
was married. gave ms reason that
Icould not sell any more of it, rs it
had an unpleasant taste. My wife was
very economical and not wishing to
waste the honey, she determined TO
have it for her supper. Happily, she
had no children, or she would have
Toasted them likewise During the
night she was taken SO i'll that | was
Obliged to send for the Musician. He
Immediately recognized symptoms OF
poisoning. He asked her what she had
tdttu, Huu NtlN HdluIdItN Slt auSNtTtl
that she had supped on some honey
that had taken ont Of the shop be
cause my customers did not like it.
The physician appeared struck 10y this
circumstance, and, giving some pre-
scriptions, be retired, saying that he
would return in an hour. | awoke my
clerk to send HIM to the apothecnry
with the prescriptions, and when he
learned what had passed he became
pale and trembling, He went ont i'm
mediutely on my errand, but did not
return, and il was the apothocary him
self who brought the medicine
This incident increased my trouble
At the end of an hour the physician
ret'fnea hliari7ig snurse With him.
ana telling me that the patient must