The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-28
An Entern;rising Coroner.


Butcher, when we knew him; was
coroner up in WiIliansport. Business,
that winter, was dreadful dull. No
body died suddenly, or was drowned or
murdered, and Butcher not only
had nothing to do, but he made no fees,
and was as poor as Walt Whitman's
poetry. Suddenly a mania for commit,
ting suicide seemed to break out among
the people. Mrs. Brown fed herself
with strychnine; both the Smith girls
stuffed themselves with arsenic; Aleok
Jones took dose of laudanum John
sons colored girl swallowed some bug
poison, and Mrs. Murphy's little son
ate four boxes of phosphorus matches.
These tragic events occurred at inter
walls of few days, and In each case 20
sooner were the facts discovered than
DR.. Bumm was at once on hand with
his stomach pump. He emptied Mrs.
Brown all of sudden; he pumped out
the Smith girls; he tore the laudanum
out of Jones he separated the poison
from the colored, girl, and he nearly
turned Mrs, Murphy's boy wrong side
out. All of them recovered. The cor
oner viewed these proceedings with re-
gret. He went to Bumm andsuggested
| that he would give 800 if the doctor
would close out his pump, and $50
more if he would go out OF town for
three or four weeks. The coroner said
he did not wish to seem inportunate
or obtrusive, but. was tired of having
doctors NEEDLE with his business Then
| DIR. Rumm affirmed that he would not
only not sell and not leave town, but
when the next poisoning case occurred,
he would buy a steam-engine, attach it
| to the machine, and pump the patient
| throughout the. unending ages of all
| eternity if he wanted to. That night,
Butcher bribed the doctors boy to
bring him the pump for few moments.
Then he rubbed some nitro-glycerine
around the end of the piston and sent
it back. The next day Mary Jane Nc
Guire took oxaIic acid. The doctor
came he inserted the apparatus down
| her throat and plunged the piston
down. A snap, shrek, loud explo-
sion, and Mary Jane, o where was
she F? Forty-seven pieces of her were
found, and they picked. up twelve frag-
ments of the doctor, so the coroner had
a chance for SO inquests, the fees of
which enabled him to buy a barrel of
flour, get his wagon fixed, and give his
wife pink silk dress. He was the most
enterprising coroner they ever had in
Williamsport. philadelphia, Post.
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