The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-07-08
Special Dispatch to the New York Herald


Wilesbarre, Pa, June 26, lS75.-At no
time during the great coal strike just
ended has there been such excitement in
this city and neighborhood as now exists
over the sudden death, under most sus-
picious circumstances, of Mrs. D. T..
Bound, wife ofthe Superintendent of the
Lackawanna and Bloomsbury Railway
All sorts of rumors are aAoat in regard
10 the affair, and the general opinion is
that Mrs. Bound met her death at the
hands fher husband and young wo-
man named Alice Severson. The do
mestic relations of Mr.. and Mrs Bound
had been unpleasant for some months,
in consequence of the intimacy that ex-
isted between the former and Miss Sew
erson, and the manner of Mrs. Bounds
death, coupled with the above facts, has
given rise to the suspicion of foul play,
and if the chemical analysis Of her stom-
acb, which is now being made in New
York, results in the finding of any trace
ofthe poison that is alleged to have been
administered to the deceased, the sur
yeiIlance that is now kept over the sus.
pected parties will be followed by their
immediate arrest
The deceased lady was the second wife
of D. T. Bound, and was highly accom-
plished and cultivated lady. She formed
the acquaintance of Mr.. Bound about ten
years ago, while visiting the family of
DR.. Mackey, of Hyde Park, relatives Of
hers. She was at that time principal Of
a select school at Milford, Pa, and the
center of refined social circle. Mr..
Bound being a man ofvery considerable
wealth and prominence in the La ka-
wanna Valley, she accepted his proposal
of marriage and became his wife in the
latter part of 1865. Her maiden name
was Lucinda Beecher, and her relatives
are among the most eminent people in
this section. Ex-Lieutenant Governor
William Bross is cousin of hers, and he
is now in the East assisting in the prose-
cution ofthe investigation into the cause
other death. Mr.. and Mrs. Bound took
up their residence in Kingston, opposite
this city, and it is said they never lived
happily together. 1t is certain that dur
ing the past ten years the conduct ofthe
former has been source of constant
scandal His relations with the young
woman mentioned were notorious. But
few months ago, during the absence of
his wife, who was visiting friends, he de-
fed public opinion by actually installing
Miss Severson in his wife's place in his
house.
When Mrs. Bound returned she at
once Indignantly dismissed the woman
from the house. Bound Immediately
escorted her back again, and told his
wife that Miss Severson was to remain
there, and if she Mrs. Bound) did not
like it she might leave. His children
by bis first wife, singularly enough, sus-
tanned his action, and the consequence
was constant and bitter domestic quar-
rel. until the sudden death of Mrs.
Bound last week. Before retiring on
Friday night she ate dish of strawber-
ries and An hour or SO afterward
she was seized with intense burning in
her stomach, violent convulsions and pro-
fuse vomiting. She remained in this
condition until midnight, when she died.
Arrangements were made for her burial
which was to be in the cemetery at Mil
ford, Pa. Before the corpse was carried
to the train, however, an officer from
Scranton arrived in Kingston with war
rant authorizing him to detain the body
for post mortem examination. The war
rantwas sworn out by the friends of the
deceased, to whom, it is claimed, she de-
clared, few days before her death, that
she believed her lite was in danger, and
requested that in case of her death an
examination of her remains should be
made.
Drs. Mackey, Corse and others held a
post mortem examination before Alder
man Waters, of Scranton, and the stom-
aeh was found to he in such state that
authority was asked and granted to ob-
tain chemical analysis Of it. 1t was
sent to New York on Tuesday, and the
report of the chemist is awaited with in
tense anxiety by the public.
Meantime the suspected parties are
kept under surveillance by the authori-
ties, and their arrest will be made at
once if the analysis warrants it. SO gen.
eral is the belief that the parties are
guilty that Bounds house, in Kingston,
Is Stunned as if it were a pest house.
DIR. Ludwig, the Bound family physician,
declares that death was caused by in
iammation of the bowels, and that there
were no evidences of poison in the sys-
tenn of the deceased lady.
Miss Severson still remains in Bounds
house, which seems to deepen the indig-
nation of the people.