, 1878-01-05
Starved to Death.


Ou lstoo IAIuay CVcuiIS III. IL
d. Goodwin, who has an office
on O'FaIlon street, between
Fifth and Sixth, was called to
see a woman who was supposed
to be at deaths door. He found
his patient in room 6S of the
Ashley building. He learned
that she had been sick for some
time. The folks around her had
no knowledge Of what was the
matter with her, but they knew
that she had not had medical at
tendance. DR.. Goodwin found a
single calomel pill in the box in
the room, and afterward ascer-
tanned that neighbor had given
the suffering woman a bowl of
soup. The doctor also learned
that the woman had had little or
nothing to eat previous to taking
the soup, and gave 1t as his I'M
preston that the woman was
then suffering from inflammation
of the stomach, caused by cor
rosive sublimate, which was
formed in the stomach from the
action of the soup upon the cal
omel, a result that may be caus-
ed by the action of alkaline
chlorides upon calomel. He at
tended to the woman's wants
carefully, but saw that she was
past hope, and gave her such
remedies and anodynes as his
experience in such cases sug-
gested. He did not expect her
to live until sunset of that day,
but she survived until 10 o'clock
in the evening. The scene IN
the death chamber was indeed a
sorrowful one. There were few
to weep for the departed one.
The husband of the woman lay
across the foot of the bed, the
shriveled child by it's mothers
side, and where the breath had
left it there still lay the
Lifeless body,
A worn out fe ter that the soul
Had broken and thrown away.
The father and husband of
this small and unfortunate fam
lily had been a sober and indus
trious man, painter by trade,
but had some time ago been seiz-
ed by that collie to which those
Of his trade are SO liable, and
was subsequently visited by an
attack of paralysis, and so rem
dered perfectly feeble and help
less. DR.. Goodwin found him
barely able to stagger along, and
so weak and helpless that he
deems his days numbered. The
child was in the same poor con.
dition, and an idea Of how terri
bly, the poor must suffer can be
CLEANED from the following de-
scription by DIR. Goodwin of the
manner in which he came to find
the child. The Doctor said:
"When l came in there was
but very poor light in the room,
and l noticed there was a child
beside the mother. why said
l. this child must be a year old
The neighbors told me it was
five or six years old. | could
hardly believe it, but when l
took the lamp from the bureau
and brought it to ward the bed, l
saw that the face, instead of be-
ing that Of a child, was haggard
and carcworn, and was more like
that of q shriveiled old man.
The child was a perfect skeleton,
its joints sticking out through
the skin and its general appear
ance that of Il body emaciated
and fallen away from want of
food. There was no sign of any
circulation to be seen through
the flesh"
The name of the dead woman
was Elizabeth Gibson. While
she was yet alive she told a
neighbor that if she had had the
plato of soup-which was her
last food = earlier, she might
have been saved. AS it was, she
starved to death.
A dispatch from Osceola, Mo-, on
the 10Th ult., says mob of armed
and masked men took possession OF
that town on Friday night, arrested
everybody on the streets at tie muz-
zle of reyolyers and shotuuns. and