Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-21
A MOTHERS CRIME.
She Confesses that She Gave Arsenic to Her
Daughter.

Daughter.
Recent developments in the Lincolnyille
Me-, poisoning case tend to show that the
sudden death, last November, of Miss
Almatia Heal, was tho result of deliber-
ate murder Mrs. Heal is now in the in
sane asylum here. Recently tie told
visitor that she gave her daughter camo-
mile tea On being asked if she put any
thing into it she said 'If did it was be-
cause she was a fairy, and God told me to
put her out of tho way" On being further
questioned Mrs. Hall said Railways had
a little poison on hand to kill rats. they
troubled us SO much, and you can tell
them they will find the rest ill box in
| the open attic under a loose board in the
corner near the grain room.
Yesterday Sheriff Wadsworth went to
the Heal house, in Lincolnville, and
searched the premises, In the exact ioca-
ton described by Mrs. Heal he found a
rusty tin pint dipper. Inside the dipper,
surrounded with paper, was u small mus
tard box, and inside the box, q white
powder carefully wrapped in paper. DIR.
ii. II. Johnson has analJzad the contents
of the box by Marsh's test. and finds 1t
arsenius acid.
! An Unknown Mans Suicide.
A stranger, aged about twenty-five
years, entered q disreputable house on
Hamilton street in Albany, Tuesday even.
ing, drank a glass of soda, and departed.
At II o'clock this morning he returned,
and, after a sholJ conversation with sev-
eral of the inmates of the place, proceeded
to an upper room with one Josephine
Johnson. The couple had hardly entered
the apartment when the man drew revol-
n II rlypH he
would like to shoot some one. Don't
haudie your pistol SO careless!y," said his
companion, q for am afraid of firearms u
The man thereupon pointed the weapon at
the woman, who ran screaming from the
room and down stairs. He followed, but
when halfway down stopped, placed the
pistol 20 his head and fired. Officers
summoned TO the scene found the stranger
curIed up ut the foot of the stairway, in
sensible, and removed him to the city
hospital He died this evening.
Every Day Tragedies.
-Four children Of Mrs. Mcdonald, ageC
from two to seven years, were burned tt
death by tho explosion Of Il coal oil lanl
in flame house near Brackett, Texas, Q,
Monday night. The mother, who wa
alone in the house with them, was unable
to assist her children, the flames cutting
her Off from their room.
Tho dead bodies OF a man named Fiatal
and his wife, an aged couple, were founc
in bed in 4 room in Baltimore yesterday
They left n letter, written in German, i'll
dicating that they poisoned themselves
ON Sunday, because of extreme poverty.
Anunkuown woman was found drowned
in the water yesterday in the fOrebay OF
the Paramount works. The body had the
appearance of having been in the wate
for several months.
The Allan Line steamer Buenos AyreaI
has been in collision with aud sunk ;
steamer off La.nlash, Scotland. Eleven O
drowned
Probably Fatal COasting.
Mt. Hope is a favorite coastiug grounC
for the young people in the northwestern
part of POttsvilie, and the other night II
was crowded by hundreds of coasters
The hill, which is about d mile long, Il
very steep for the first half, and a frightlu
momentum is gained in passing over it
At the foot OF the heavy grade stands a
school house. Among the party were
three girls, named Adonck, Bushan anC
Davis. The former WAS steerer,' anG
sat in front of the sled. Whilo going a
the highest speed she lost control of th,
sled, and it went dashing into tree box
She was picked up for dead and carried
home, when it was found both legs haC
been broken and one of her feet was
crushed. Her companions escaped with
comparatively slight injuries. That the
party escaped instant death is considered
providential.