The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-09-20

| Mohmc-no WIAAS MS FrOperty anu I
Herseshoe Patent to Mr.. Bersh's So
eisty.
| DR.. w. III. Jewett lived Tor many
lyears in seclusion in North Haven
Me. He was noted for his fondness
for dumb animals, and was frequent
ly seen to interfere in behalf of suffer
ing dumb brutes. In August he
wrote to Mr.. Bergh, saying that he
intended to present the patent to the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
to Animals He hoped that the soci.
ETY. would make good use of the pat
ent, and from the proceeds have vet.
erinary colleges erected in every
State in the Union, free lectures Civ.
en-, tracts on the care of dumb ami
mails circulated, and cOmmittees es-
tablished to seek out cases of cruelty
In postscript he said that he was
about recovering from a severe i'll
ness, and that he would send the pat
ent and his will to the society in a
short time. He added that he hoped
there were no Louis Bonard entangle-
ments in the will, which had drawn
by Justice of the Peace.
Shortly after making his will, the
doctor again became very ill, and vas
confined to his room, and cared for
by neighbor. The doctor declined
to speak Of himself or his affairs, al.
though it is supposed he was very
wealthy. On the morning of the 20th
ult. he seemed better, and arose, say
ing that he desired to make some ex
periments. He sent for two bottles
Of turpentine, and in the evening dis
missed his friend. About midnightsome
from the passers by saw flames issuing
windows of the doctors house, enter
ing they saw the doctor, apparently life
less, lying on the bed. Blood was
issuing from deep cash, which had
evidently been cut with a lancet. on
one Of his legs below the knee. The
FIRE was extinguished, and the doctor
was carried into open air where he
was tenderly watched. He died
shortly afterward. His habits were
similar to those of the late Louis Bo-
nard, who bequeathed his wealth to
Mr.. Bergh's society. Mr. Bsrgh has
written to the authorities o: North
Haven to obtain information concern
ing the will and the specifications of
the patent
DIR. SCHoEPPE ACoUIrTED.-In the
fall Of 1869 Paul Scnoeppe, a young
German physician of Carlisle, Pa,
was convicted of the crime OF mur-
der and sentenced to death, ON charge
OF having poisoned Miss Steinecke,
an aged spinster. He was respited,
and through influence in his favor
the passage Of Law by the Legisla-
ture Of Pennsylvania was obtained,
by which he had a new trial. Gu
this trial, last week, the lawyers en-
gagged for his defence considered his
innocence 30 established by the evil
dence, or rather the entire want of
evidence, that they submitted the
case TO the jury without argument
The presiding Judge remarked that
he regarded the moral evidence as
exceedingly weak, fully IS much so
as the medical or chemical, which
was no evidence at all; and if the
case, as presented during this trial,
had been brought before him on a
habeas corpus, he could no. con-
seientiously have committed the
prisoner to answer the charge OF
murder, and he regarded it as Gods
providence that the former judgment
of this Court was not carried out,
and the Court thus saved from the
of a great wrong. 1t
would have been, said he, judicial
murder. The jury almost immedia-
tely agreed upon a verdict of ac--
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