The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-08
A SAD STORY.
An Unfaithful Wife supposed to Have Been
Poisoned by Her ParamOur-Their Life In the
AdirOndacks,
| From the Troy Press.]

An UhlhibnIui WHe buppOsed 10 have Been
Poisoned by Her Paramour-Their Life In the
Adir0ndacks.
From the Troy Press.]
Some time ago we noticed the fact
that the body OF Mrs. Lucinda Wicks, of
East Chazy, Clinton County, who had
clipped about year ago with man
named Sheldon, had been returned 10
her home by her paramour. Toe details
of the elopmeut and death of the woman
have been made public by the White
hall Chronicle, ana they are sad in the
extreme. The deceased was q young
married woman Wnom Sheldon had iiI-
duced to leave the home tnat was made
happy by her presence sand rendered
da. and, des"late by her downfall.
Sheldon was short of money, and forged
a note on his father for a small amount,
and the misguided vile appropriated
$500 Of her husbands money, and the
guilty couple fed into the wilds OF The
Acknowledges, where they lived until
death removed The woman.' Sheldon, it
is said, left wife and four children
when ite fed with the !aithiess woman,
and the lILter torsook the happy CIRCLE
in which she had BEEN an ornament.
The couple had no way of obtaining
money when their ill-g GOTTEN gains were
and sin at the house Of one Richard
Turner. In the early part Of April a
child was born TO her, and the grief that
she Aau felt for some time now became
almost unbearable. She kept her
thoughts close in her bosom, and those
VINO met the cou pie in their wild habita-
tion were led TO believe that they were
man and wife. The father of the woman
made every effort to ascertain ner
whereaOuu Q, but all to no purpose.
hen sickness overlook her. she asked
Sheldon 10 send for d doctor, which ne
did. The Chronicle concludes the sad
story as follows: "Returning soon after
his visit to u doctor he produced small
bottle Of liquid, which he said the uoc-
tor had sent, and that she must take
some immediately. TO this she objected
at first, but be insisted, and finally gave
her teaspoonlui. AS soon as the
Liquid entered her stomach she COM
p.alned OF burning SENSATION, and in a
moment after commenced vomiting in a
fearful manner. Two or three hours
after she breathed her last. This repLil
Sheldon pawned all her valuable clothes
to Mr.. George BROWN receiving from
him SAL. He then LETT with the body
for East Chazy, transporting il fifty
miles over a rough road to Fort
Edward. and from, thence by rail
10. the depot, within two
miles of her once happy home. On its
arrival there he pinned her name to the
coffin, ana requested that some one
would inform the parents Of this fact.
The family did receive the information,
aud her mother, Mrs. Wilson, fastened
to o7the depot and recognized the body as
that Of her long lost daughter. In the
meantime tue brute Sheldon fed to the
woods, ana in aiday or two returned to
this place, leaving the little babe, but
three weeks old, in the family OF Mr.
David Oryitt, and then lett for parts
unknown. Suspicion was at ono 9
aroused that he had poisoned the lady,
and Mrs. Turner, to test the effect0f the
medicine, placed a few drops upon her
tongue. 1t Instantly began eating into
her tongue, and mad she not attended TO
tue matter would, in all probability,
have lost her tongue.