The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26
DR.. Ebenezer Tucker.

The death OF DR.. EbeneZer Tucker,
which occurred at his home in Malboro
Tuesday, at the age of 80, takes away
another of the grand old patriarchs of
Windham county. For IS years, 81 Of
them in Marlboro, he has constantly
practised medicine, and in his prime he
ranked among the ply sicians ofthe very
highest repute in all this section of New
England. He was born in Phillipston,
Mass, in 1888, his father being Unita-
ran minister, and he studied for his pro-
fession with DIR. Emerson, at Heath,
Mass, where he also married his wife,
Mary Hunt, who survives him. In 1919
he removed to Marlboro, where he i'm
mediately entered upon large practice.
No one was too poor or too humble for
his most skillful services, and it was due
to his generous labors of love and his
carelessness of personal gain, that he
never acquired wealth. He continued
his practice with considerable regularity
up to within a few months, and even on
March meeting day gave one prescrip-
ton. He was taken with stroke of
paralysis week ago Sunday, and since
that time up to his death was unable to
speak though he retained his intellectual
faculties with marvellous clearness even
up to the last. During the past winter
he has taken deep interest in the
Hereafter, and in the fullness of his
religious convictions has felt as he said,
81 am ready to go; my work Is done.
He died in the peace and serenity that a
true, manly life, and faith in future
Justice, must enduce.
He was a man of great public spirit,
and for years held the position of
postmaster and justice of the peace. lie
was man of great practical sense and
force of character, who would make MIN
self felt anywhere. Fond of jokes and
pleasantly, open and hearty in his de-
meanor, he was always valued friend
and neighbor.
DIR. Tucker was the father of six chill
four of whom survive, the oldest being
60 years old. One son, Col. Joseph L.
Tucker, now lawyer in Kentucky, was
on Gen, Breckenridge's staff in the rebel
army, and he met his brother, VIM. H.,
who was in the commissary department
of the Union army on battlefield IN
Tennessee. One son is a farmer in Heath
and the two daughters, Mrs G. A. Win
chester and Mrs. E. Cottrel, formerly of
Philadelphia, are now both residents OF
Marlboro.
Is it Child MURDER
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A FIvEYEAR-
OLD AT LUDLOW.
A five-vears-old child of James Tole of
Ludlow died suddenly last week. and a
post-mortem examination revealed signs
of opium poisoning. The mothers story
is that she gave the child dose of castor
oil about p NJ, because it was feeling
out of sorts, and then at 3 l-2 O'Clock IN
the morning she was awakened by its
heavy breathing and moaning, when she
tried unsuccessfully to arouse it. DR..
Lane was summoned at about clock
but found that the narcotic had taken 50
deep a hold that nothing could be done
to save the little ones life, and it died
two or three hours later. Though the
autopsy revealed opium, the mother de-
clared positively that she had given 1t
nothing but castor oil, though she pro-
| duced paper containing small guam
tity of morphine which she said she had
procured some time ago to be used in
case of teeth ache. If by any means the
child could have managed to have got
hold of bottle of laudanum, and taken
it unbeknown to any one, its death could
be accounted for, perhaps, but there does
not appear to be any ground for such an
hypothesis. The mothers reputation is
very bad. as her parentage and associa-
tons always have been. The child was
| illegitimate, and had lived with family
in Mt Holly until recently, and it is claim
ed that the mother was offended because
it was brought back to her, thinking that
Mr. Tole should support it. 1t is not
believed that the father had any cogni
zance of any crime, if one has been com
mitted as he was very anxious that a
post norton examination should be held.
There is no sort of doubt that the child
was poisoned, but further than that the
| case is a mystery.