The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-03
THE ARRISON INTERNAL MACHINE.

The caption of this article refers to one
of the most cold-blooded schemes of ven
geance that ever reached elimination
in the history of crime in the New World.
1t was thrilling to the highest degree,
and excited the most widespread aston
ishment and indignation at the time of
its occurrence. Cincinnati, Ohio, was
the scene of the affair, and the Goth of
June, 1854, the date at which it occur
red.
About a week before the date men
toned, fine choking, wel-dressed man
called upon DR.. A. H. Baker, of the Gin
cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery,
and made inquiries concerning Mr.. Isaac
II. Allison, Steward of the Marine Hos
pital, and also student in the college.
The man was a stranger TO DR.. Baker,
and the particular inquiries that he made
concerning Allison's general appearance,
dress, and habits led the doctor to be-
ieve that he contemplated doing the
steward an injury. This belief was
strengthened by the mans remark, in a
peculiar tone of voice, as he closed the
interview, 81 will see him in less than a
week"
DIR. Baker was so concerned about the
affair that he informed Allison of the
visit paid him, and asked him if he had
any enemies, to which Allison replied
that notorious gambler was at enmity
with him, as the gambler had once in
trusted a secret to him, which he had
since feared Allison would divulge.
A few days after the visit of the
stranger to the hospital, man answer
ing his description hired two boys, about
9 o'clock on a Monday night, to carry a
small box to the steward of the Marine
Hospital. The boys accepted the trust,
and were then cautioned by the man not
to shake the box, as they might damage
its contents. They took the box, which
was wrapped in brown paper and tied
with a cord, to o. Stockton's gentle
mems furnishing store, at the corner of
Longworth street and Western Row,
where they left it in charge of clerk,
who agreed to see that Mr.. Allison re-
ceived it, as it was directed to that gen
tleman. Soon after receiving the box
the clerk delivered it to DR.. John w.
Baker, whose Office was in the same
building. DR.. Baker was to give it to
Allison, but being engaged with patient
at the time, he laid it on his table, where
DIR. Cummins noticed itand shook it, find
ing that it contained hard substance,
which ratified within. The box was
about foot long and six inches wide,
with sliding lid. 1t weighed about
ton pounds.
After DR.. Baker had finished with his
patient, he took the box up stairs and
delivered it to Mrs. Allison, the stew
ards wife. Mrs. Allison took it into
her room and gave it to her husband,
who sat down upon a chair, united the
string, and removed the paper. AS he
pulled back the sliding lid to discover
the nature of the contents, terrible ex-
plosion occurred, that shook the build
ing as if an earthquake had taken place,
and caused window panes to be shattered
and the plastering upon the walls and
ceiling to fall upon the floors. The ex-
plosion was followed by screams of ter
ror from the stewards room, and when
DIR. Baker with others rushed up stairs
they were nearly suffocated by strange
gas that filled the apartment. The bed
clothes upon the stewards bed were
burning, and Mrs. Allisons clothes were
also on fire. Between her screams she
called out to DIR. Baker: "For Code
sake, doctor, come and help u.s." Ali
son could not at first be seen in the
smoky room, although his piteous moani
could be heard distinctly. After tearing
the burning dress from Mrs. Allison, snG
extinguishing the fire wherever it had
ignited, DR.. Baker discovered the stew
ard rolling in his agony in far cornel
of the room. He was endeavoring tc
crawl to front window on his hands
and knees, and presented shocking
spectacle, with his entrails protruding