Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-28
4 Dasiaraly Poisoning.
ICdcago THbure.I

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 The annals of crime have rarely fur nished a stranger case of poisoning than that with which Dr. Cream of this city. now au inmate of a Canadian iail await ing extraditiOn, stands charged. and for winch, if the evidence be reliable, hfis likely tO pay the severest penalty of the law. Tn ls64 Daniel StOtt came from Canada to Garden Prairie, Illinois, near Belyedere, as a station Agent for the Northwestern Railroad Company. Tn
 1888 he married his third wife, by whom he had one child Though they did not always live happily together, there was no intention of separation or divorce.
 During the past five years StOtt has had fits of an epileptIc nature. In searching for relief he fell into the hands of Dr. Cream, of this city, who began Co pre- scribe for him, Mrs. StOtt frequently coming to his office for the medicine. He took charge or the case in February last. On the 11th of June she went to his office for medicine. He wrote the prescriptions, and she started for a neighboring drug store to get them filed. He told her the firm was not a reliable one and urged her to go to Buck & Rayner's, and to make sure that she iid SD he went with her. She had three prescriptions but two of them only were filled. The one called for caiOmel anG white sugar, which singIIlarly enough, was ordered to be put in capsules and the ether for rhubarb. soda, strychnine and quassia, which was put mp as a mix ture. She went back with Cream to his office. and before she left for home he opened the capsules. but whether he put anything in them or in the mixture she prOfesses she cannot affirm. She then took the medicines with her.
 During the next day, June l2, StOtt felt unusually we'll That evening he took e spoonful of the mixture and three capsules and was immediately seized with spasms and died in few minutes As he had iong been subject to fits no suspicious were aroused. and on tke l4th be was buried and nothing more would probably have been heard of the case had it not been for Dr. Cream himself who On the l6th telegraphed to the Cor oner to have the body disinterred, as he suspected foul play, and also to have the remainder of the medicine examined and Co try its effects upon an animal The trial was made upon dog, and 1t ey- pred is the unfortunate Scott had done. In a few minutes. The body was then taken mp and the stomach examined by Professor Haines, ol the Rush Medical College and strychnine enough was found m lt tO have killed six men. < Jury was summoned and found that St0tt died from an overdose of strychnine. They exonerated Buck & Bayner from any cjrelessnoss and implicated Dr. Cream as a murderer.
 Their reason for this was that the Sheriff of the county laid before them the following evidence, namely: That after the body was disinterred Mrs. StOtt went to Chicago, and that Cream had proposed she should give him power of attorney to proceed against Buck S Rayner in a civil smt, lavng damages at Si0OO She re- fused to do 1t, however. and Cream, thus finding himself thwarted in his purpose, fed to Canada, where he bas since been arrested. During tine brie- interim since he left here inc spent his time iu dissipa- tiou, and when confronted with the oi- ficers manifested every appearance of guilt He IS now lyiug in jail at Sand wich, near Windsor. awaiting his deliy- cry tO justice.
 ts tine crime of this man can hardly be par alleled for cruelty and inflmy Ordina- rily in a ease ot murder there is some powerful motive urging on the murderer t1 dispatch his victim hatred. revenge. passion 0r the acquisition Of a large sum of money. Dr Cream. however, had no Erudge to satisfy against Stott. The vic tim had never injured him in any way. He was simply a patient in his hands. ! and he choose him for his villain0Es practices beca1se he was subject Co cpl leptic fits, and his sudden death would not reflect upon his practice or expose him to any suspicious. It k said that there IS a woman at the bottom of all mischief, but there is nothing in Mrs. Stott's conduct to show that she was privy to any plot to poison her husband. | even though she was not living happily with him.