The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-17
. BORGIA CASE IN VIRGINIA.
The Mystery Ofihe Lloyds-A Mother
md Six Alleged Vietims-A Hus-
band, an Aunt and Four Children
Excitement In LeesburG.

LEEsBURG, Va, April II.
On the 9th OF March last this COM
munity was thrown into state of great
excitement by the announcement that
MRS. EMILY z. LLOYD,
a lady Of responsibility and means and
strict member OF the Episcopal
Church, was suspected of having
pois ,ned her whole family, consisting
of a husband and Jour children, as we'll
as an elderly lady,relative Of the family.
from Washington. who was visiting
her.
THE FACTS IN THE CASE,
a. developed at that time. were to the
fleet that four years ago the Lloyd
family consisted Of six persons-Ch-rle1
E L oyd, Emily (his wife, the accu-ed)
and lour bright. beauti al chi dren Two
! bows and TWO srrls) 10 the winter OF
lS39.7O Mr.. Lloyd was taken i'll with
pneumonia, and after severe illness
became convaie>cent, but he afterwards
became worse aud
DIED SUDDENLY.
As he was an int'uprrate man, no one
thought strange Of his death, and he
was buried without a pot moriem ex'.
animation. \ ter his death the mother
-eemed TO become intensely attached to
the children. She procured for them n
nurse, bean TO drrss them nicely, ami
accorded 10 them many privileges that
the stern ard cruel Iathe1 had denlei
them. She sent them out with The
nur,e and allowed them to go about as
they de-ired, and it was MATER OF
remark among all the villagers how de.
voted was Mrs. Lloyd to lie. family. In
he summer Of 1870
THE TWO EoI4,
AGED ci.ht aud ten years respectively,
accompanied the rurse to the iieid 10
rt;her tlackherrieS. When they re-
turned in the evening the chilirer, who
appeared 10 have been poi-omed VIA
poison oak were taken SICK, AMI died
III iienlv The &"o.her seemed over.
whrlmel with g:;et at her l"s', and
ordered lro.4 the llGGe undo. ta!;er
HIS y, ST CA>KITS FIR HER DEAD
children and made the most ample ard
lavish arrangements tor their burial.
So sorrow stricken d she appear that
the wnole c,mmuuity symPathize'i with
her in marked degree, and not the
slightest shadow Of suspicion dwe.t III
the pccpl.'s mind that the CHI lireu had |
been ioully dealt with. They were
borne to The grave SIDE by lie AID
buried together. After their burial the
mother seemed TO dote W on the two
children with great Ter
veacy, and with amplemeaus provi led
iavisnly Tor their wants She often
rem arked that she lived only 'or her
Child en-. ani their mrs seemed fully
as devoted to the two remaining ones
as The mo her. The death o. the father
and two boys hal been almost forgotten,
"a we'll "a that OF an aged aunt OF MIS-.
LLOYD, who WIS on q visit 10 them IN
the summer OF ISL, and their sudden
lie mise was no longer talked OF in the
community, when one evening 1t WAS
announced that
TIE ElDE>T GIRL,
a beautiful, lrea thy Child of some five
wears had been taken suddenly i'll, with
much tie same SYMPTOMS a. attended
the sickness OF the father and the o,hrr
children. The chi d fingered day or
iwJ and died. Yet 10 su-l icion A.
ttchet 10 the M ther or 10 any member
of the household, for she WAS devo'ei
member Of the church, and seemiDGlv
attached to Ter children. The child
was buried without a thought OF its
having been destroyed nv her hand,
and time pa S d on I'm il March %,
when the announcement came that
THE F URTH AND LAST CHILD
was sick with the same symptoms at
tending the sickness a. had characie>-
lied the less ali the o,her members
of tie family. 1t was sick but a day
or two and del, but vet no suspic.on
came to the peoples mind that the
child had been poisoned. The evening
after the death of the last child the
singular fatality attending the Llovd
family became the sui ct Of much
earnest conversat Oh all over this llrtie
village. There is law o. Virginia
that requires
DRUGGISTS WHEN THEY SELL PII>oN
10 note upon q register the date AID
n .r-on TO whom sold, and this subject
became 20 generally talked OF TIA
some sug Ies,,d an EXAMINATION of the
drug. ists hooks, VIII CT was done. and
it appeared that short me previous
10 each OF thcs. deaths, Mrs. Lloyd had
purchased
AN OUNCE OF ARSENIC
These aad oih-r facts inducei the
Mayer, Il. NJ. Bently to summon
Corou,r's jury aud hold an inquest,
which WAS a, coriingly ne, and upon
on examina ion OF tue mater 10 salts,
factory accounts OF these arSen'c pur-
chases could be made, and they deer
mined 10 have post mortem exam;na.
tion and submit the sto mach to analyza-
ton, to which the mother did not
oppose the slightest objection.
THE STOMACH OF THE CHILD
was accord ngly taken out, placed in 9
glass lar and taken to Baltimore and
delivered to Professor Tonry, who was
one OF the chemists in the Wharton
trial, TO be anal, zed, yet there were 'ew
people willing 10 believe that poison
would be found. Since that da!e the