The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-15
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL THURSDAY APRIL Is 1875

| to his wife a medical circular. He dictated
a moment, and then said that he would take
| his medicine. Since his earliest treatment
he had dictated every symptom of bis dis
ease, and every effect OF his medinine to his
wife, making a valuable record OF DIR. Brown
Ssqusrd's treatment. He lay down on his
| bed with his bemlock beside him, took fifty
drops, and began slowly to dictate to his
wife. His mind was clear, and his manner
lucid. He told his wife not to be alarmed
| at any symptom, as DR.. Agnew had told
! him Just how the symptoms would follow
| each other, and just how he would pass out
| from under the drugs influence. The OBJ
! ject of all was to relax all the muscles so
that the twitching of the facial muscles
would cease, and when this was DONE con-
tinuation OF the hemlock in smaller doses, it
I was hoped, would relieve him entirely. He
took the first dose, and his wife wrote his
words down as follows: 4:10 p. NJ took so
minims Squibb's fluid extract of conium
(hemlock) so minutes to 5 P. M, effect, very
decided in dizziness,
RELAXATION OF MUSCLES AND LIMBS;
so minims more then taken; difficulty of
walking Immediately and want of power to
control movements: forced to lie down. but
no mitigation of spasms, limbs and legs
weak, unable to hold up head, speech
thickening, some pain and heaviness in top
and back part of head; pulse &C. 3:15 P. NJ,
took City drops; some nausea, some tremor
at base OF clavicle and muscles across the
chest, just above the sternum; no dimin-
ution of spasms about eyes nor of photos
phobia. 5:25 p. NJ, drowsiness, inclined TO
speech difficult, fullness in throat,
prostration nearly complete, dip
lopI double sight) vastly increased.
6:10 P. M.-Nausea, twitchings on right side,
unable to srticulate, eyes closed, fullneSs
almost to suffocstion in throat,
pulse about sixty. In part six He called
for water Just before he began the sentsnce
that was never finished. His wife ran to get
some coffee, and as she returned she saw
her husbaPd dead. His last utterances were
thick -tongued, but he had anticipated this
symptom, and expected to pass
from it into the relaxation wherein
lay the cure. He was dead from
$50 drops of hemlock, and died quietly
The event.ul death was q sequel to an event
ful life. In 1861 Mr.. Walker was sent to #.
b, a place twenty-five miles from Washing
ton, by Gen. Manchester, to capture Emack,
the reb-l spy. He took a cavalry troop and
made the capture. He put the spy under
the supervision of two men, who allowed
him to escape. Emack drew bowie knife.
and as Mr.. Walker-known then as Gen.
Walker-was washing his face, the rebel
stabbed him in the abdomen, running the
KNIFE through the Dack, ana Inen STABBED
him twice again, but the blows were cut of
by memorandum book. Emack |
scaped, and was afterward in
charge of Libby Prison. where Col |
Wood and Gen. Michael Corcoran heard him |
boast of his exploit. He was afterward |
known as Bowie knife Emack, the Yankee
Killer. Mr.. Walker was poisoned in the
National Hotel III 1857 in Washington, and |
as he narrowly escaped death then, so he
did four years later. After the war he
was broker at 81 Beaver street. He was
aiterwsrd deputy internal revenue collector.
He leaves family of five children, one
A large number of friends visited
his house yesterday, and his funeral on
Wednesday from st. Peters Episcopal
Church is to be under Masonic supervision.
Mr.. Walker was past grand master of Illi-
nois. The coroner's inquest is TO be held
this afternoon. Already the case has excited
the most intense interest among Brooklyn
The death record is preserved
8s an unprecedented document.