Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-02-23
Kittie O,TO0le's Death.
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

MILwAUKEE, Feb. 20.-The coroner's
jury has been busy to-day investigst.
ing causes that led to the death oil
Kittie O'Toole in the office of DR.. Chas.
H. Orton last Saturday. DR.. Orton
was sworn and. testified: I reside at
127 Clinton street. Hard to say how
long / have known the girl (Kittie
O'Toole); but probably for ten or fif.
teen years. She died at my Office on
Sunday afternoon, after 2 o'clock.
Here occurred little wordy alterca-
tien.l boarded at the Metropolitan
hotel. Kittie waited on me and
learned to like her as daughter. My
wife lived at the hotel with me. l was
sent for several times to attend her
when she had epileptic fits. About
two months ago she called at my Office
and said she had sleepless nights, saw
balls ef fire in the air and was afraid
she We aid die. She said at st. Paul she
was in a Catholic hospital and they
treated her for vertigo. 1 pre-
scribed medicine for her and
we became intimate and en-
gagged. She said her aunt .on Pros
pect Avenue wanted her to live with
her, but she was not able to work and
was afraid she would die, as sine would
there be left alone considerable. She
then went to live on the Lisbon Plank
Road, about four miles from the city,
with her brother, Mike O'Toole, who
keeps q tavern and saloon. They had
no suitable room for her there, and l
furnished rooms for her. She grew
worse and ! called to see her daily or
as I thought her health required. One
night watched with her all night and
she was delirous. At last they thought
it looked bad for me to be keep
ing her in my rooms, so we de-
cided to get married, although
/ told her my good wife had been dead
but a short time. We talk over church
matters, and said was willing to be
married in the Catholic Church. The
trouble of its being Lent then arose,
but Mr.. Olwell, of Oconomowoc. her
brother. in-law, procured a special dis
pensation. took Kittie to my Office,
with all her effects, because we were to
60 to Oconomowoc directly after being
married. DR.. Orton then recited his
previously published statement of
the manner of the girls death. |
l worked over the girl con-
stantly until the arrival of DR..
Martin; would blow my breath into her
xryhI ohn
gurgling sound. When DR.. Martin
came he said it was no use to do any
thing more, as the poor eirl was dead.
The girl was in my Office since last
Wednesday evening, and staid there
all the time until she died, but was in
tending to take her up stairs when the
family returned; the family's name is
Daily, consisting of a man, wife and
two children. Whenever unwell she
would be greatly troubled.
Drs. n. Sem, Hasten and Connell
held q post naortem examination on the
body of Kittie O'Toole yesterday after
noon, as to the result of which there is
considerable secrecy, A thorough ex-
animation was made and the stomach
was placed in the hands of chemist
Bode, who will make a chemical ex-
animation. The physicians who held the
post naorten, do not believe the girl died
from poison; and they could not tell
whether she had epilepsy. They found
she had valvular disease of the heart,
which, with something else, caued her
death. The heart disease, they say,
would not have eaps ed her death alone,
while it no doubt aided to some extent.
One of the physicians says that a
sensation would be caused when they
reported.
The jury this afternoon visited DR..
Orton's office, on Clinton street, and
viewed the situation. .and surroundings.
In his testimony, Orton described the
rooms and said he had a bed in one,
while Kittie slept in the other room.