Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-14
a WESTERN BOR6IA.
Story of q She.Deyil Named Lamb
Her Liberal Dispensati0n Of
Strychnine-Her Husband
and Two Children
Poisoned.
How Mrs. Ottman was Done For
The Cup Of Tea that Finished =
Royal Garland-Other Victims.

est OF the household, and only ten years Of
age az ;he time of her death.
| WHERE, AND HOW THEY LIVED.
The family removed to Trimbelle, Wis
eonsln, about sixty miles from St. Paul,
ABOUT eight years ago, and have continued
70 I'VE there without anything specially no
nceable in their conduct up to within Is
months ago. The village of Trimbelle is In
rlerce county, Wisconsin, nearly opposite
hed wing, Minnesota, and the Lamb family
Iived upon farm of 100 acres, Eve miles
distant from the village. The house is q
pam but comfortable structure. and has
Deen surrounded during the lifetime of
Mr. Lamb with everything required for
Inc proper maintenance Of his family, and
IT'S interior was said TO have been more
than ordinarily well supplied. he was
nard working man, respected by his neigh
| bors, while his wife pursued the even tenor
J OF her way, and gradually won general es-
TEEN by her Christian department, and
eventually became conspicuous for her
ready assistance Ia all cases of sickness and
her efficient works In all religious enter
prises, being member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, aud, to use the language
| of our informant, ''one of its most active
workers In the Township Of Trim
BELLE" But, notwithstanding
all the good she did there
were those in the community who could
not become attached to the kindly nurse
and Christian worker, being repealed by
an indeinable something which they neither
| pretended to explain nor account for on any
known action of her daily life. Some TINA
before the death of Mr.. Lamb, it Is alleged,
upon good authority, that the wife expressed
strong desire to have a portion of the
land set apart and conveyed 10 her by deed,
| but the husband objected, and disagree
ments ensued. These finally became so
serious that the husband was induced to
transfer to the wife, and to be owned in
her individual right, about $500 worth of
personal property, and the feud was con-
sidered at an end. The family affairs of
the Lambs continued without change or
| striking event until the
DEATH OF CHAUNCEY S. LAMB,
the husband, which occurred on the 18th
of September, III, and under the following
circumstances: he had Just gone into bis
corn field and began work when he was
seized with some singular malady; his arms
lost the power of responding to the will, he
fell to the ground, and was soon afterward
d DoC-LuO NACl1L1 vi ulocdSt, AZ
cording to the testimony of the wife and
neighborhood, and the widow received the
sincere sympathy Of the community in her
sudden affection.
THAT FARM AGAIN.
After the strange and lonely death of Mr..
Lamb, the wife assumed control Of the
farm, and in its subsequent management
had occasion to consult her neighbors,
among others, Mr.. James Gilman, citizen
of Trimbelle. In one of these converse
tons it is alleged that she again referred to
the land, and expressed desire TO obtain
exclusive control of the farm. Mr.. Gilman
told her that she would have life interest
and her third in the realty, and that she
need have no apprehension for the future
she would be well cared for by the child
rem. She replied substantially that she
could not depend upon them-"they would
turn her out of doors when she got old"
THE STORY OF cARR-AN ATTEMPT AND
FAILURE.
Some time after the death of Mr.. Lamb
the widow became frequent visitor at the
house of Mr.. Carr, of TrimbeIle, aud Mrs.
Carr and Mrs. Lamb became intimate
friends-the widow being 10 less an ad-
mirer of the good qualities of Mr.. Carr. In
course Of time the two women had occasion
to walk out together, and during the inter-
views Mrs. Lamb asserted that she had re-
Gently been al Red Wing, and while there
she had consulted fOrtune-teller, who had
informed her that she was soon to lose a
dear friend, and that she Mrs. LAMB would
eventually marry the husband of the dear
friend who was about to be IN GrticUl0
DaOrtis. The inference was so plain and
the predictioL so directly applicable to Mrs.
Carr that the lady repealed the cheerful
prospect and prophecy instanter, and she
closed the conversation with the suggestive
words: "Mrs. Lamb, / am not going to
de-" But Notwithstanding her vigorous
protest, her escape was a narrow one, and
the Red Wing seer missed certificate.
The circumstance was related TO Mr.. Carr
upon the return of his wife; his suspicious
were aroused, but by mutual consent they
made no public reference to the matter,
and the friendly relations between the widow
and wife were maintained without marked
interruption until q few days after
ward, when Mrs. Carr dropped into
Mrs. Lambs house, and at the invitation
of the latter sat down to tea. A cup was
handed Mrs. Carr by the hostess, and upon
taking a swallow an intensely bitter taste
was noticed. Mrs. Car suspected nothing |
wrong, but remarked that the tea was too |
strong for her, and arose to pour it back |
into the vessel from which it had been |
poured by Mrs. Lamb. The latter grasped |
the cup from the hand of Mrs. Carr and |
threw the contents out of the window. Mrs |
Carr returned home and was soon seized |
with violent pains in the stomach, spas |
modic movements of the muscles of the |
arms, throat and jaws. She tried to |
vomit, aud while doing so the Jaws |
were closed so that the skin was torn |
from the finger while in process of removal. |
Succeeding finally in ejecting the |
contents of the stomach, Mrs. Cars life |
was saved, but the suspicious of both Carr
and his wife being fully aroused in regard
to horrible possibility, further relations
between the families were closed at
once and forever though the
Cars dared not express their fears on
account of the heretofore exemplary con-
duct of Mrs. Lamb, and a reputation for
which would have subjected those
uttering such a suspicion to reprosch or a
mob by the good citizens Of Trimbelle. 1t
was kept psrfect secret until other events
in a revelation, the accumulated
horrors of which are almost without a
parallel and entirely beyond description.
THE WINTER PASSED,
Mrs Lamb remaining quietly upon her
farm, attending to her duties as usual, and
bestowing such attentions upon the sick
that she was regarded as rural Samaritan
by those stricken down with disease, and
those who had an opportunity to witness
her apparently charitable impulses and
kindly actions. After the spring opened,
she called the attention Of neighbors to the
condition of one or more of her children,
and advised them repeatedly that there was
something
WRONG WITH THEIR HEARTS.
Although the neighbors failed to detect
any outward manifestations Of iInpeded &C.
ton, and the children appeared as well as
usual, they accepted her word, and presum-
ed that the heart difficulty from which the
father had died had been entailed upon the
children.
A PREDICTION AND DEATH.
In May last Mrs. Lamb claimed to be
distressed by spprehensions of some Gala
nifty in her family, and the calamity"
came. Orrin S. Lamb Called Don,) a son
only thirt- en- years of age and favorite,
was called into the house by
the mother while he was
engaged at play with snether lad
named Sears. Both walked in and Orrin
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