The Cecil Whig., 1884-02-02
The Hall Family,

Another poisoning sensation occurred
on Monday last in this rather lemaik k
able family. Mrs Hail says, that on
that morning at about eleven o o'cl"ck she
made some coffee and prepared food for
the family. (they not having eaten any
thing that morning hefole), of which
they all partook. and very shortly after
wards they were all with the exception
to the eldest of the young children tIken
i'll, with vomiting and burning IN the
stomach. Dr. Ellis was sent for and lie
thought from their symptoms they had
been given another dose. No poison
was found in any of the food OF else.
where, though the symptoms were cxac.
tlv the same as those of a genuine poiS-
oning case. Mrs. Hall at first charged
her oldest daughter Lizzie with the
deed, and her father went to the Jail and
had her committed for the night. Upon
that evening representative of the
WING visited the house. and had con-
yersation with Mrs. Hall. At that time
she was vehement in her declarations
that she did not believe that Lizzie did
the poisoning. and when asked who size
thought did it, she replied, Il have no
idea, it is a strange thing to me, but do
not think Lizzie did it, and then she
would begin for the fortieth or more
time to tell the whole stcry ever. X
certainly is strange case. No notice has
been taken of it by the officers Of the
law, and no analysis for the detection Of
poison has been attempted. In the first
place the proper officer, the States At
torney. should endeavor to learn wiIc
ther or not any poisoning has been done
or attempted, and if there has. no plan
should be left untried to place tie crime
upon the perpetrator. A matter of this
kind should not be allowed to 90 by de
fault.
The Wilmington Ecery Erehi"g, a
newspaper pretty generally righe i'll its
sayings about men and things, gets a
little off in it's remarks upon the recent
troubles of the once obscure. but now
widely known Hall family OF this town,
in relation to the wages received by Mr..
Hall. After quoting the statement that
he, Hall, received but three dollars per
week for his labor the EtGy Erenjng
says:
"We sincerely hope there are no such
cases Of destitution in this city, and
| al, -, "a
would take advantage of workman :
poverty and helplessness to extort his
labor from him for such n niggardIy
wage"
In this case 'extortion' is putting it a
little strong. There were number of
others ready and anxious to take the
place at the sa me price paid Hall, many
of whom could have lived, not sump-
tously, but above starvation upon this
amount, but they were men with no
family at all or with smaller ones than
that of Hall. His trouble was that he
had too big a family with too small an
income. His employer was not supposed
to know how many he had to provide
for, and so long as a number applied for
the place at the wages paid Hall, we
cannot see that he is open to censure in
the matter If he hal known Halr S
circumstances and still refused to pay
him rate of wages upon which he could
! keep his wife and children from want
the case would have been different but
: he did not Therefore we say the EcerS
Ecening is a little off. in this matter.
Some dark Dress Goods that we'll sell al
very low prices. REESE.
Odds and ends of Winter Goods. y,
reasonable offers refused. REESE.