The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-25
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 1874

Tie night. one was In q S6ml-cOD-
sciOus condition, from which she could be
aroused by considerable effort, but would re-
lapse at once into former condition. Her
countenance was OF ashen color, pulse quick
laborly breathing. / learned that she had
taken 26 grains of opium the night before
By using great effort 1 aroused her suffi-
GENTLY TO answer the question, "If she had
taken so much" She answered: "26." /
inquired if she had taken morphine. She
answered, "Opium." / asked If she had
taken it at one dose. She answered 'sNo.n
asked when she took it. ssLast evening"
was her response. Upon asking her "why,"
she answered, II can not tell lieu
Her answers came slowly and were OBJ
tanned through considerable difficulty, the
patient 0f,en falling into stupOr before the
replies were fully made, in which event had
recourse to ice applied to the spine. Motto
ing that she breathed. with difficulty, lifted
her up to a.sittiug posture. With the excep-
ton OF changing her position, application of
ice to the spine and chest, cold towels 10 the
head and administering brandy and ammo
MIA, made no change from the prescriptions
of DR.. Parvin. After lifting her into an arm
chair, with direction to continue the use of
the stimulent, / left the patient at 1915
o'clock, having another engagement, and
DR.. Parvin's return being expected at ii
O'Clock. / next saw Miss Harding at 1890
O'Clock; found her upon the bed in perfectly
unconscious condition, the pulse too rapid to
be counted, the skin spotted. the lungs con-
gested, breathing with great difficulty; eyes
fixed, pupils thoroughly contracted.
NO RESPONSE
could be obtained to any calling; no effect
could be produced by the application of the
strongest ammonia to the nostrils, or by
tickling the fauces of the throat with
feather. / at once wrote note to DIR. Par
vim, stating, "Miss Harding is dying; come
Immediately" which i gave to her father
who was standing by. During his
absence l removed Miss Harding to the
parlor below, hoping that the cooler draft
would assist in her restoration, but all her
symptoms grew rapidly worse. In about
three-quarters of an hour Mr.. Harding re-
turned. He entered the house in a hurried
manner and started up stairs. After re-
peated calls by his wife, he was induced to
come into the room. His counten-
snce seemed sunken and frozen. changed
greatly since his departure from the
house. He walked rapidly to the desk, in
which he placed his pocketbook and pa
pers. Looking at his daughter a moment,
he stepped hurriedly into the hall, request
ing me to follow. After closing the door he
asked, "Do you know what the trouble is?''
replied, From what she told me, she is
dying from opium poison" He said ssThere
is man at the bottom of
this; and while going for Parvin,
/ met him and Killed the id cuss."
That's all right" said 1, "walk in and
keep COOL" After following me into the
room he sat down by his daughter, holding
her hand until her death, which occurred
about 3 o'clock. Upon being asked if Miss
Harding was encient at the time of her
death, DIR. Fletcher stated that it was his be-
lief that she was not in that condition.
MR.. NORTH INTERVIEWED.
Mr.. Moritz was called upon last evening at
$3.50 O'Clock, and found laying quite
easily, but rather weak and unable to speak
much above a whisper. He expressed a
desire to make his statement, but was ad-
monished not to talk too freely. The con-
versation between him and the reporter was
about as follows:
@. When did you first see Mr.. Harding
this afternoon?
A. About lis o'clock.
q. Where was it?
A. Right at the corner of Alabama and
Vermont.
Q. Did either of you speak at the time of
meeting2
A. Yes.
@. What was said?
A. remarked, George, what are YOU
doing up this way?" That was all. He
never answered me.
Q. What did he then do?
a. he took out his pistol, pointed it at me
and fired at me several times.
@. How many times did he fire?
A. He fired four times, / guess;
THE PISTOL sNAPPED ONCE.
@. II is rumcred that you seduced Miss
Harding, and that that was the origin of the
trouble. What have you TO say to that?
A. The origin of the trouble is as much a
mystery to me as anybody. 1
know as little about it as any one.
] only know from inference and from what
the Evening News says this evening, but it
is terrible SANDER.
O. What do you know of Miss Harding?
A. great deal. 1 first got acquainted
with her through him. 1t was not until that
trip Harding made to Arkansas Springs. He
came to me before he Went there and
made few remarks with regard to some of
her ways of doing, and wanted to know
whether would interest ms myself svii in her be-
half ! agreed TO do so. But he insisted
that should not let her know that he had
wished me to do so. / noticed her strange
conduct, and afterward told her of it. L
told her only as a particular friend. have
not spoken to the girl for three or four
months. rrr Gan
g. Had you ever been on intimate terms
Z A. was not at all intimate with her at
any time. She finally persuaded me to tell
her what her father had told me. She did
not for moment believe that her father had
ever confided such a thing to me. She
thought was one OF her enemies, and had
put her father up to these suspicious about
her, and so stated 10 another party.
When told her of her strange
conduct she insisted upon know
ing who told nee. / said that her dear
est friend had intimated. But she coaxed
it out of me at last.
@. What did you say to her, and where
did you say it?
A. spoke to her about it in the Office.
told her that her running around and her
careless way of showing herself in the street
was creating rather.
AN UNsAvoRY IMPRESSION.
@. You did it simply on the score of
friendship?
A. did 1t merely because of Harding's
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