The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-06

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them across theaiyar In i,is naslse. : Thene
gro refused to do so, and an alteration en-
sued, when the white men drew their pistol!
and commenced firing, killing the negro In
stantly, and then made their escape. Infor
nation of Che nllirder.sp rdpidly thfehgt
the neighborhood, and D crowd Of some
twenty or thirty negroes, oil armed, soon
assembled and commenced search for THE
murderers, but had not succeeded in finding
them at last accounts htarg RepI6.
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SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY-ARREsT OF
HER HUSBAND ON THE CHARGE OF HAVING
POISONED HER.-One of those strange and
mysterious cases Of domestic tragedy which
startle and convulse with painful excitement
"a quiet and yirtuous and law-loving commu-
nifty occurred near the town Of Mount
Crawford, in Rockingham county, on Thurs
day Of last week the 18th of March. On that
day, about. noon, Mrs. Deliah Cameron, wife
OF John Cameron, an active, well-to-do, en-
terprising man, died suddenly, after having
taken what she supposed was dose Of salts,
but which, from the sudden and deadly eff.
fects produced, is believed to have been i'm
pregnated with dose Of strychnine.
Immediately after taking the dose, which
was about teaspoonful, and which
was taken for the sick headache of
which she complained, she was thrown into
violent commissions, which continued with
but brief intermission for the space Of about
an hour and bali, when death terminated
her mortal agony. Her husband was absent
i'll one Of his fields, not far from his resi-
dence, when the dose was taken. One of
Mrs. Cameron's children, young lady
eighteen years Of age, ran to some of the
neighbors ind announced the sudden and
violent illness of her mother. Collecting
quickly, her neighbors found her in
the terrible bodily agony spoken of.
Her husband being called. from the
field, suggested that cream should be given
her, as that was good in such cases. Mrs.
Cameron continued rapidly to grow worse,
the commissions becoming more and more
violent, and her body more rigid, until death
ensued. In the intervals which elapsed be-
tween the paroXysms, she charged her hus-
baud with having prepared the poison which
she had taken, and which she felt assured
would soon terminate in her death. She
said to him, "John, you have poisoned me ;
you said you would do it, and you have
done it." She said he had prepared it the
Sunday before when she was at Fairriew at
church.
On Saturday morning Coroner L. II. OFT
summoned a jury, who proceeded to hold an
inquest over the body OF the deceased. The
evidence adduced before the jury elected the
facts already stated, with the additional ones
that deceased and her husband had for some
time lived very unhappily together, fire.
quently disputing angrily, and upon one or
two occasions coming to blows. The cause
of these family difficulties was said to be the
visits of Cameron to the house Of a disrepu-
table woman, or women, not far from his re-
sidence In fact, difficulty had occurred
between the parties only about fortnight
before the fatal Thursday, in which Cameron
had inflicted personal chastisement upon his
said to be in the habit of visiting. ,.
After hearing the evidence in the case
some of the witnesses summoned being q
number of the most skilfll and experienced
physicians in the county, the unanimous
judgment Of the jury of Inquest was that the
deceased had been poisoned, and that the
agent was; strychnine. A portion of the
stomach Of the deceased was taken out, and
sent to professors Of chemistry Mt the Uni.
versity Of Virginia for examination and care
full analysis. The result Of this analysis has
not yet been heard.
The deceased was buried on Sunday, and
her husband was arrested and confined al
his residence until Monday, when he under
| went examination before justices of The
Peace L. G.. Whatsoever, NJ. Linden, JOSEPH
Byrd, and y. w. Bowman. After patient
hearing of the case the accused was sent tx
| Jail at Harrisonburg.
Cameron is about forty-two years Of age
and his wife was in the forty-llinth year O
her age. They have two children daugh
ter about eighteen and a son about fftee1
years of age. An interview between TIT
| father and the son at the Jail on Tuesday, i
represented to have been deeply affecting.
We have never known case to occur II
our county which has so excited the popular
mind in the locality where it occurred
Rockingham Register.