The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-03
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4 Young Lady POi>Ons Hprseis
while Undsr .ne Influence Of " Re-
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4 Young Lady POisOns Herself
while Undsr .ne Influence Of Re
IISiOus Mania.
( From the Sedalia (Mo) Democrat.
/ It was reported on the streets yester
! dsy morning that mournful trsgso
b I'd occurred 1t Knob y os.er, Thursday
night, which was creating great excite
raeut IN the community The Democa'
Immediately telegrsphed for the particu
ars of the sad occurrence, which 1t Il
this morning enabled to lay before It's
readers. It took place at the residence
oil Enos Howard, three miles north OF
Knob NOster, and the victim was DIS
daughter Ella, a beautiful girl OF sixteen
years af age. She was engaged TO a
married to young farmer in the neigh
borhooi, and preparations were being
made for the nuptisl7. wednesday
mig hit last she went 10 revival meeting
al Pleasant Grove Church, six miles
from the Knots, and while there made a
profession of religion. On the way
home her lover made sport OF her ''tolly,
as he termed it, and tod her that relig-
ion oil that sort was nothing but excite
ment This distressed Miss. Howard
greatly; and in parting from the young
man told him that he would be sorry for
what ne said. Nothing however, sp
peared strange in her conduct; but she
wrote the next morning 10 the young
man that "if he wanted to see her alive
he would have TO do it before o'clock
the next morning. BY some misad-
venture the letter failed to reach its des-
tination, and promptly at 8 o'clock Ella
Howard took poison which, IN some way,
had fallen into her po:session-a large
dose o. arsenic. IL wss several hours be-
fore the family became aware of what
had transplred, and then physicians were
hastily summoned from Knob Noster.
But it WAS 100 late. The poison had
done its fatal work, and she expired at
II o'clock at night in great agony. Her
family are, however, firm in tie Convlc.
ZION mat she did not take the poison in
tertiouslly. They Say that she had been
having chIls, and hat soc had been TAX
ing solution o. quiuiuo for 1t. The
IN ais containing these two prescriptions
occupied the man.ei piece, and were eX-
act.y alike. Thy believe that the arse
uic was taken by mistake This belief IL
no, however shared by the community,
and the letter she wrote to her lover
W ,ulI seem TO contradict. it. And YET it
seems increiihle That an intelligent and
respectable cir! land she was both) would
he her life Tor 20 trivial = cause as that
alleged. TINS latter supposilion Is the
slrOL gest evidence upon which the theory
that it was mistake IS founded. TIE
unhappy circumstance has thrown q.
cloud over the eHtiro community, for
there is 10 more respectable family in
johnson county. Eos HOward TIE
father of Z Ia, is u w3il-t0-do farmer, and
Ills dsughter had every reason IN the
world 20 look forward 10 the most happy
prospects in lite. The physicians who
aucndod her are under the impression,
.hsi lhe religious excitement under
which .he WAS lsborlrg, acting upon
constitution naturally delicate, and rend-
cred more so by sickness, produced 8
kind Of hys,ericsl mania, under tho in
huance OF which the tata! drug was taken.
This Is the most probable solution OF the
c.so. Her family are plunged into the
deepcs! grief ana the young msn who Is
IN some degree the unhappy cause OF the
s-ll-murder is fraE:i2 with remorse. Al
10 ,ct1e- it ls one OF he s4ddest incidents
TIA, has eyer occurred ia this psrt Of the
tate.