The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-01-16


b right soase more poison about that time:
Nrs kars I5a0 ,cid lie Mr, Cobb was il
rEn hagi- Of taa.-E ;'.,-lo about The last Of
Fglrusr~ ard said ii / would make some
u0-paiua pills she would put them in his
Tilipg X; we - n Se the pill ore We'd
Ies6ay night q. Ms. Wa:-Tman's ths-
m5,hrr's1 hose she brought The mOrpaIue
over. and went To- the P1sf-UIice. out sne
saw C-ariev mar lie engine house as she
strTraG - NJ. Ha:sTmsn's, near Bred
Hall, a Z thought IL would not be safe 10
maze them there IS Charley would he after
her she gave me a casekuiie and | went to
he shop and made three pills, containing
one grain OF morphine, each; he did rot
hsve his usual bilious attack, 80 did not
take the pills "a anticipated; Mrs. Cobb |
ASKED me 10 get aconite in February.
ACCOMMODATES HIM WITH ACoSITE.
She said when her mother lived over Lanm ali /
* Seyin's drug store, laborer by mistake !
took aconite for whisky and died: got her an |
ounce of aconite she wanted TO know how |
much 10 give him; told her | thought |
ten drops given in any way would produce |
death; she gave ii 10 him once or twice. !
and il seemed to have no effect; she gener-
ally gave it in tea, and would tell me of it |
next morning; about the 20ih or 9th of |
February Mr.. Goth procured quite a num-
her OF tickets to Don Nunio, then exhibit |
ing at Breed Hall; he wanted his wife to |
accompany him TO the entertainment, but |
she refused, snd told him to take Mrs. |
Waterman, her mother;
IT WAS VERY STORMY THAT NIGHT;
/ Was 10 go by the store at about o'clock, |
- l thought, to the back door, aud Kate |
: came TO the door and said, 1T won't do for |
you to stay round here great while to-
. night | have given Charley aconite and it |
/ has raised The devil with him-go away; |
/ wanted TO go for the doctor but he would
BOT let me and has gone bimself, and ex-
I rect he will be brought back ever mo-
ment = left saw her the next morning
| she said Charley has been to DIR. Perkins
! the night before aud got prescription, but
/ did not get it filled: he was out at the barn
while | was converting with his vile cor
I respondeuce at that time was less frequent
purchased morphine about this time for
; Kate to put in pudding; in March, st nv
request she made and gave me mirror
! mat; ] gave her a b.eastpin and earrings
/ after the death OF ny .ife {; do not think
/ her husband knew il came from me; Kate
told me he noticed the jewelry on her and
she said, 81 have been making myself
| present. she gave me brush broom case,
ornamcntei with al emblem bearing the
word Hope
| All ARSENIC JUST THE THING.
Ca tie lith Of March, 1873 she showed
! me an article in The daily morning BUHstin
of the 18Th on arsenic, which spoke of it a.
coloress and tasteless :" she said, AFT had
some OF ths, could get it into him :" got
/ her some the next dsv, q half ounce that
| was the frs. arsenic Mrs. Kate II. Cobb got
/ from me, ard her husband got the mot If
IL: about this time | told Kate was going
10 New Haven. TO get my mother who was
/ there visiting; she said, 1T will be good
tine for me TO give Charley the arsenic, 30
he Will die when Won are away; = left Sat
uriay; Monday I wen, to a news Office in
New Haven 10 get a BrE1in to see ii he
was dead; when | got home, she said, 81
suppose you are disappointed, but We had
company Sunday and | could not give it to
him :" my mother was absent' in New Ha-
sen two weeks; told Kate that gave us a
! new place TO meet gave her the front door
key and kept the key To the back door my
self; she spent four evenings with me there
| alone; our relations were criminal; Kate
told lie the first arsenic she gave her hus-
band che put in his coffee; it had no APP
parenrt feet; she said she would give him
NOR; every Two or three days -he gave it
10 him and sometimes three times daily
Kate once said to me, Charles must be
/ poison proof. bl, ! think | can get enough
down him by and By TO get an effect"
THE TEMPTERIs ISNCCENT QUESTION.
! | as ed her once'or txic. Whv do You
rot SOP ~ Sh- replied, Ny mind is made
~ and will succeed" Charles H. Cobb,
Jr., had been given five or six doses OF ar
seniC before the 23I OF March, 1878 She
: said she had given him SO much arsenic
/ thar il had given him disrrhpi, and she
had been to DR.. Perkins about it.. | met
her that night March 23i) on School street
End We talked an hour she told me DIR
! Perkins had rec Umended quinine pill-
I bat she said she WAS going TO give him
morphine powders, and tell Charley the
/ doctor had ordered them. She reminded
/ me it was inst ten weeks to an hour since
morphine was given my wife, ard she
would administer some TO Charles thar
night. Next morning she told me she
! had given her Usbaud the dose and he had
! Perspired all night,
! EUT THE POISON SEEMED 10 HAVE NO
EFFECT;
that he Law and ,,.mbIed On one side Of The
bed all NIGHT. and ina Charles was not able
| to get up that morning. She invited me up
to see him, | went; ! asked Charles if be
wanted doctor he said he did When
went down stairs she wanted 10 know what
she should tell The doctor ! told her TO tell
him she had given him quinine next morn
| Ip, sba s,id sba had ,olI ,be Joc,or .sTb.J
| directed before the doctor came she de-