The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-02-28
A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
A Woman Gives Birth to a Child in a
House of III Repute and After
ward Finos If Dead.
A Faint Suspicion That it May Have
Been Poisoned.

Several dsyaEp a woman named Ella Lope.
e man arrived in this city. aud after visiting
! several places, finally STOPPED u house Of
iII-ftme on lower Main street, known as the
"Eose Bud" There she gave birth to a child
wIiri. gd very suddenly last sunday morn.
ing. The only facts We have in Che case can
he obtained from the re port OF the coroner,
inquest, which Is as follows:
INQUEST On HE DEATH OF A MALE CHILD
| FDBGCART -iTH, lS7s-
| Ella LOpeman, being daily sworn, deposes
aud says:
..ADouI ii ". We k the caI.d now dead was
DesoIt IA ia Linn county, Kansas; am now
LyIu- mere three well k>'
] '.hyH Old Is TINS cnI4d?' "Eley n days"
I Iii we You nal a p.l ySlcIan in your sick
ness:' No; a co-orei oman waited OH me:
1 the cnild was born healthy and continued 80
| until last night; this morning aDJ.t nine or
ten o'clock / noticed IL gIsp4ng for breath ~
| Nv hat dId you do tueuc' 'Mrs. Band
topk the child from me and washed H.
and We sent tor DIR. Callahan; ii sho ~ed no
symptom OF having been Poisoned / do not
know what the symptoms ar; Morphine Car
tn. tiuur."
Did you see this girl give the child any
thing to drink ." .'les, / diu: she fixed a
susai tat and put molasses IN 1t, and put II
IA tine chIld,s month; she then gave me
Dtck TIE child, on the pillow, at my back
and II never NOV, after; she remarked 10
me, ana said she gave the sugar telt SO that
The damned brtl wonld not b. squilllng all
night IEis Was about three O'Clock, A. VI
she then lay down on the floor again.
ana have not Segn her since
by Juror-"Nas IL at your request the SUI
gar teal was giyeue" NO, sir; 1 objected 10
II, and said 10 was the worst thing sne could
do; she also remarked that she had done
dirt since she came To the house, and she
would do some before she would ietve.H
LILLE LoPEMAN.
Maria Bland being duly sworn d pos. 5 and |
says: Il am The pToprietress OF this house" |
"Do you know the mother OF this child ~ /
Il 90; was standing at my door, about three /
weeks ago, and she came TO me; she asked |
me my maine, and tod her and asked her
a week, She said, with Mrs. Belle Williams,
and she told me To go away; she then tod
me she went 10 the Home, and told me she
uld not stay there any time; she sad she
and sine cried 20, 4 consented that she would
stay week with me; the night |
size was confiHed, IL was about II o'clock 1 |
sent tor "A co!ored woman named Betsy Over |
ton, VINO waited on her in her sick ues> there |
was a woman named Morphine Carrie sleep |
ins IN the same room with her; last night /
Tod Carrie the child Wa cry ing up stairs, and
90 and see what was the matter; She said !
the chlid was dead; when she returned TO
me asked her what was the matter and she ;
said nothing; that She gave II to the mother
and II was sucking; this morning was cali
ID 10 go and see That child and | did SO, and
ound The child dying; 1 heard some one say
oI poisoa, and sent for Dr.Ca.Ia- |
Ian; he came, and the child fingered for
'ome hours aud d.,d; 1 told the doctor the
;ulId MAS poisoned"
..N hy did sou think so?" ''BecauSe found 3
IN the ted on the floor paper lpr, duu ell To
he jury having ihe io.ds Of a prescription
,ap-r." -