Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-14
EVENING STAR.
The wisconsin Borgia

CLIMAX OF MODERN DBVILTRY-THE FEMALE
FIErD MURDERS SIX PERSONS. AMONG THEM
PARTICULARS.
Correspondence of the Chicago Inter Ocean. 7
ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept T.-One of the most
sickeniDg cases of crime and horror that the
modern journalist has ever h sd occasion 70 re-
cord has Just been developed in the Deighboring
state of Wisconsin, case sufficient in Ali It's
horrible details to almost cause the human mind
TO believe that satan takes mortal form in which
TO wOrk out his superhuman iniquites. A short
TIME since, a telegram to the InteT-Ocesn an
nCunced that a Mrs. Charlotte Lamb OF Trim
BELLE, Wis, had been arrested on suspicion of
murderH her husband, and now a further de-
VtiOlmelt OF facts brings to Iii ht the moral
certainty that this tiend in female form is not
only guilty of that act, but that she also killed
her two children and two neighbOrs. and pOssi-
bly, two o hers. i mis- sickening record of posi-
bic and certain crime dates a. far back as the
wear lsJ4- at which time a former wife OF Mr.
Lamb died, and within year afterward a
young lazy 10 NhOm he Wa paying attention,
both in = sudden and mysterious manner
TIE present Mrs Lamb was az that time an in
mate Of his family, and these later develop
ments have aroused the suspicion that these
unfortunate persons also were victims 10 her
mallgnaE.'v- The record the last two wears il
A. follow MIR. and Mrs. Lamb have been
living on farm al Erimbeille since lS66. in a
neighbour O"d of devoted Methodists of which
society Ms Lamb vas apparently faithful
and en- O., nj member, and it Is owing to this
Yact tuat suspicion, which might otherwise
have been openly expressed against her. has
been allan ell For eighteen months previous to
september. ISL, the husband and wife had been
living IN more or less openly decls state OF
Ieud, Owl 10 the refusal OF the husband to
Deed the property over 10 her, he declaring tn At
she should have her third and the children the
rest, IN case OF his demise. On the 18th OF
September, ISL, Mr.. Lamb was taken with
a singular malady while at work in a corn
ned, and died in great agony in few mo-
meDts- The death WAS ascri bed TO heart disease
Again MI. Lamb made unsuccessful attempts
10 get control OF the entire farm, SAYING that
she eNpec' ed that the children would turn her
q 4 haEt rhar1 Eh oil
son, Orrin, a lad OF IS years, in good health was
suddenly taken sick and died in half an hour
sitter eating piece of bread and butter which
he declared "tasted bitter" This death was
also attributed TO heart disease. on the 2Ith
OF June tie daughter. Sarah, was taken with
Commissions. and died within an hour. Early
this spring Mrs. Lamb became a Il 81 tent WISH
tOT at the residence of a near leighbOr, Mr.
James Gilman. She was not slc1med with a
great deal OF cOrdiality, but Continued her
visits ana was often heard to declare a great
admiration Tor Mr.. Ottman. One day after
klls. Ottm IN had returned from a call at Mrs
Lambs, where she said that she had taken a
glass OF bltters, she was taken violently ILL A
physician was summoned, and 30 successfully
treated the malsdy that the lady RAPIDLY i'm
proved. The next day Mrs. Lamb called, and
was very attentive 10 the invalid. She pre-
pared slice OF toast for her, aud administered
some OF the medicine lett by the physician
Mis-. Ottman was Instantly taken with agOniz-
ing pains, and died in fifteen minutes
Shortly after this Mrs. Lamb was EMPLOYED in
the family OF Royal Garland, a man living in
Diamond Bluff Township On the 18th OF Au-
gust Mrs Lamb turned Garland a cup of tea at
elmer. lie was immediately taken with great
pains, and died in awful agony within an hour
HE almost unaccOuntahle blindness of the pub
nc now Tell on as by shock, and on the 18th Of
the month she was arrested Tor causing the
death OF Garland. The scales once from the
Iubhc eye the horrible chain of deaths caused
by this wholesale nlurdeTeSs were revealed.
Both strychnine and arsenic were found on her
Premises. The stomach Of Garland was ex-
lumed AID CXamineJ, a were also those of Mrs
tftm2n AMI the two children. and Strychnine
Wa found IN each of them. The trial OF this in
human monster VIII come OIL at Ellsworth in
N1FCiutt next r. L. q.