Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-15
CRIME.

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love with another mans wife, and the
wife returned the love, and they per-
mitted themselves to drift on from
one point to another until they COM
mitted murder to rid themselves of
all obstacles in the way of their
union. The woman, who murdered
her husband by poison, is a Mrs.
Cobb, and her trial has awakened
Widespread attention. The name OF
her alleged paramour is Bishop. A
dispatch says, the great sensation of
the trial was the appearance on the
witness stand of Wesley w. Bishop,
the alleged paramour of Mrs. Cobb
and her accomplice in the double muir
der of Mr.. Cobb and Mrs. Bishop.
He said he knew that he was not
obliged to testify and criminate him
self, and that no inducements had
been held out to him to lead him to
testify. He had known Kate NJ. Cobb
fourteen years, but his acquaintance
became mere intimate Ii the winter
of 1877, when he accompanied her
several times to dances and frequent
ly dancel with her. His business was
driving grocers delivery wagon, and
he delivered goo1s to families living
in the same house with her, SO that
he saw her three or four times week.
In May, 1877, she began giving him
orders, and he use1 to see her several
times a day-sometimes often as five
or six times. July 16, 1877, he gave
her hand-mirror, telling her it was
a token of friendship and that his
motives We're pure regard. She ac-
cepted it. Next week he wrote her a
letter explaining his feelings. She
answered it Immediately. These let
ters have been destrC ed. She sent
him one day a piece of poetry, the
last verse of which was as follows:
Since have known his love is mine
No longer need my soul repine.
With JOY | lift my eyes above,
For love is heaven and heaven is love.
This is no longer earth to me
While O'er il flows the glory sea,
For lie has grown Dllss ulVlne
Since have known his love was mine.
He probably wrote her fifty letters,
all of which are destroyed, and re-
ceived as many from her. He gave
her a gold-tipped pencil in August.
She said she would tell Charlie, her
husband, that she found the pencil.
Charlie did not know of the presents
or the letters. She once gave him a
watch-chain. Other presents follow
ed. In the autumn of 1877 he visit
ed her often while her husband was
away. They embraced and kissed
each other at these visits and sat IN
+ each others lap. He asked her one
: night if she ever expected to be his.
: She said yes. He asked her how.
She said she didn't know, but that Ii
: would all come out right somehow
that if she had no children she would
elope with him. He said he couldn
afford that, and suggested Il couple OF
divorces. She answered: NO; /
} cannot get q divorce L have no
grounds for it" He suggested that
she make grounds. She answered
that her husband would not leave
her, do what she might; that she
knew of only one way of becoming
rec, and that was by
..3URYISG HER HUSBAND.
,,-Le mkt morning they talked oveI
tbe s,,, ,r-esi;;on of burying her hus
Lan5 aa,s, ani she said she would
do t, if if he M wo. I'D heIp her, They dis
cnssed en- s. varions va /, ,pds Of poison. He
suggested strychnl- 'e' "coni'e II aiI m
morphine. 1t was SET, led that Sne sue
was to become free by b.. LEI LEI
husband and he by getting q diV'Hc'
from his wife. In January ca, IiiS
went to Troy, and witness spent Us
evenings with Kate during Charles
absence. They agreed to be married
on his (witness) SD birthday, which
came about Christmas. Before Char
lie went to Troy, Kate said: i hope
something will happen to him to save
me the troubleof giving him poison.
By her request witness got eight
grains of morphine to have it ready
if Charlie came back. During this
time witness treated his wife SO badly
that she actually began to talk of di-
vorce. The first of February Kate
said she had mixed morphine with
her husbands tea and made it SO bit
ter that he wouldn't drink it. Wit
ness then got more morphine and
with it made some pills, she repre-
senting that she could get her hus
band to take them. He made three
pills, with three grains in each, and
also got her liquid ounce OF aconite,
, telling her that ten grains would Kill
her husband. She gave him some,
but it had no effect. Late in Febru
r airy witness called at her house, and
!, she said: 1T won't do for you tc
STAY around here long to night I've
given him a big dose of aconite, and
Z it has raised the devil with him" He
had gone to Dr. Perkins soon after
and got some morphine for her to put
I in some pudding. Witness wife dies
February Z, soon after lie gave Mrs
! Cobb some iewelry. Her husband
! asked her where she got it. She sai(
she had been making herself pres
, ent. On March Ii an article in the
: Bulletin ON poisons suggested arsenic
{ He got some the next day. She wa
, to give it while the witness was ou
5 of town, but company prevented her
} Every two or three days she gave he
, husband arsenic. She said one da.
she thought he must be poison-proo
and added that she would give hin
enough to kill him in time. He
r mind was made up and she woulC
I succeed any way. In April she CAV
$ him morphine, and the next day sh
said he lay trembling all night so sh'
could not sleep. On the first o
MAY witness got some more arseni
and gave it to her. There was hal
an ounce of it, and she gave it all t.