Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-28


especially about the beer obtained at the t
Poplar street saloon, which she said had {
a strange and peculiar taste Bg this time {
the other girl, Mamie Bucker, doubled {
up and became alarmingly i'll. The young
men at once summoned medical aid and
remedies or antidotes for poison were
Immediately administered. From the
symptoms developed the physician was
Of opinion that the poison swallowed in
the beer was %strychnine, aud a. it is
known az an acid poison, and the milk in
the punches drank in the room Of the
young men being an elkali, it acted, OF
course,a a neutralizer Of the former, and
no doubt saved the lives of the girls, .kah
being almost a specific aIaidst The evil
effects of acid poison, and vice versa
At about 3 o'clock on Wednesday moTu
ing the girls we're placed 10 a hack aud
we're removed to their home at Jennie
McLean's, on DeSoto street. When there
the poison commenced working, and the
girls suffered excessively from torturiug
pains and spasms, and so loud were their
screams from the effect Of the pains
that the attention Of an officer
of police, who was riding by on
his rounds, was attracted, and he
at once entered the house aud made the
discovery. Other physicians were az
once summoned, and since that time
they have been under strict medical at
tention. The physicians were uuaui
mously Of opinion that the poison taker
10 was strychnine, judging from the effects
The women we're placed under the inhu
ence OF narcotics, yet so powerful wer'
the doses Of poison that they again ha,
III repeated commissions and became insen
H. sible, suffering terrible tortures. Whel
Oh the aroxysms came on their bodies be
W came rigid aud curved, and APPARENT,
ne thew bent double from intense suffering
ge They we're unable to speak OF give
~ coherent account Of what they drank o
how it tasted. On Saturday the phys
clans were able to get contro
i'm of the cases, and changes 10
the better became apparent. In
dangerous spasms and convul4ion
M ceased, and symptoms Of recovery b.
came discoverable. Yesterday and to'da
they we're much better aud are now cor
paratively out Of danger, but are sti
kept under the influence Of morphl'
and other narcotics, with a view to pr
tect the nervous system from the DANCE
GUS shocks incident to taking that poisC
known as strychnine.
re- The physicians are clearly and unar
r mously Of opinion that strychnine "
given to the girls in the beer they draI
from that Poplar street boulevard be
he'd saloon, but how it came to be in there
has a mystery. The affair demands a scare
$ a ing investigation, as it is evident a Grill
In neG of the most heinous character was soug
-VO to have been perpetrated. All the p
ties have been questioned by the pol
W authorities, but as yet no arrests have b'
az made, as the girls, owing to their illn
and to the effects of the narcotics tas
"Oe BY them, have been unable to give q cl
." and coherent account Of the entire
fair. 1t WAS an attempt at a horrible &
m~urderous crime on the part OF SO
person or persons, who should if posi-
:n be brought to justice. The young u
at whose room the girls we're taken
r. were at once exonerated by the pc
authorities, it clearly appearing that
poisonigg waa as much a surprise
mystery to them as TO others. When
+ girls we're taken sick they immedia
summoned medical aid, and contribV
all the personal and medical atten
necessary. II is a mystery strange ant
:. ms applicable at present, but like all o
/ the .iI.c H. f.. q 4,
opmeus and exposure. There are m
other facts connected VITA the case "
IS will our " 80 ~ .ss.on
Justice may be done to the suspe
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