The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-05

the deep, unfathomed caves of ocean
hide many gem, so amid the
myriads of human kind many O
case of poisoning remains unre-
vealed. The Palmer poisoning In
England was hideous in its startling
developments. But, as an illustration
of the truth of the above assertions, the
affair of Modzalewski in Hungaria will
serve. In 1920 Magyar magnate,
Czinski, lost his fourth wife. Each of
his wives had dropped for a few months,
and, after the demise and thorough
dissection Of the cadaver, no grounds
for the extinction eli the vital flame
could be found by the learned Hun
garian doctors. But, in 1920, the pop
ulace of Buda-Pesth were startled by a
dei.unciation of Czinski by dependent
of his house, the woman Modzalewski.
She declared that the Magyar had
poisoned all his wives that she had
procured the poison from the isatis, a
species of plant resembling somewhat
the wood wherewith the ancient Britons
used to tattoo their bodies that the ex-
tract from this plant. when mixed with
certain chemical acids, became most
powerful poison, the presence of which
was scarcely detachable after death.
The bodies were exhumed and thor
ough examination of them made. After
a minute and rigid search the analyst
come upon the track of this heretofore
undiscovered and unknown toxologic
mixture. and the truth of the woman
Modzalewski's assertions was proven.
Yet without her aid, and the clew with
which she guided the men of medicine,
science would never have brought to the
light of day the real cause of the death
OF Mrs. Czinski Nos. l, 2 and B. And
who knows how many such cases as
these are happening in the present
time?
A strange and curious cause of death
was elected at post norton examipa-
ton in Toronto in 1871. A young man
named Henry Hubbard, aged 38, fell
dead while walking the streets. OF
course the usual inquiry was instituted
and examination ade. 1t was at first
supposed he was the victim of heart
disease. but the most vigorous search
failed to detect any signs of disease in
that organ. The doctors were puzzled;
the man was healthy and in full posses
sion of his powers; what could have
caused luis sudden departure from this
world 1t was at last traced; in one
section of the heart, while under the
microscope, was discovered the minute
point of needle. Death had been
brought about by this broken point of
needle. But how did the needle get to
flo 4la,x
researches, and were at last able to fol-
low the course of the needles point,
which had entered the mans foot along
the os calcis, the tibia and femur, along
the muscles of the glutaeus medius and
glutaeus maximus, and so on until it
penetrated the pericardiun and entered
the aorta, when death resulted. This is
one of the most remarkable cases on rec
ord, and shows from what slight acct
dents death may result. All the time the
deceased man had no knowledge of his i'm
pending doom; slowly and surely the
fatal piece of steel pursued its serpen-
tine route until it came in contact with
the vital organ.
Suffocation has also been and is doubt
less employed in numerous methods by
murderous fends in human form as
means of getting rid of their victim in
which shall leave no trace be-
hind. With infants is this particularly
so. One hand placed over an infants
mouth, and the other pressed heavily on
its breast, will occasion death. in few
and, if this be done when the
child is inhaling its breath, it is hard to
detect. Many more modes and manners
Of mysterious deaths might be quoted to
prove that it is not always certain that
detection must follow from post norton
examinations. Science has done much
in unwilling many of the occult causes,
in regard to poisoning; but
even to-day deaths are happening sud-
lenly and mysteriously, and the most
rigid and complete medical examination
Of the corpse reveals nothing; the scien-
list still stands baffied and is unable to
in victorious accent with the
poet, ooh, Death, where is thy VIC
5ory?"