Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-12
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 Sudden Death of Luther Knight
 What He Claimed and What the
 Doctors Think.
 Luther Knight, fifty years old, machinist residing at 312 Davenport avenue, died Wednesday evening under prculiar circum- stances. Directly after eating his dinner on Wednesday at the shop where he worked he was taken violently i'll, purging and vom- iting excessively and suffering much with cramps in the stomach. He said he had been poisoned and was taken home. Lima beans were the principal ingredient of his dinner. He ate all that he had taken for his dinner. At the bottom of the pail was some liquid that flowed from the beans. In two or three minutes he experienced severe pains in the stomach, and in five minutes was taken with painful vomiting As soon as he got over the first fit he started for the house of Dr. Reilly, corner of Broad and Cedar streets. He told the doctor that he had been poisoned, and that he wanted to be given something to counteract the effect immediately. He said that his wife had put poison in his din ner and he had drank the poison. Dr. Reilly gave him some emetics and soon after came up to the house. The man was having a fit of the most fearful vomiting. The symptoms of the case were those of cholera morbus. Dr. Reilly thought it advisable, however, to notify the medical examiner, Dr. NJ. C.. White, of the statements about poisoning that the sick man continued to make. Dr. White called and also considered the case one of cholera morbus The man died at o'clock p. m.
 Shortly before he died he said he was con vinced that his illness was fatal one and so informed his wife. Immediately after death Drs. White and Reilly were notified and they again visited the house, ordering Mrs. Knight not to touch the remains. They then locked the door, and taking the key with them went away, saying that they would make an examination in the morning The poor woman, who is about fifty years of age, remained alone in the house all night and was found yesterday sobbing and moan ing and in intense mental distress. She kept exclaiming 'It's shame, It's a shame; him lying there since 9 o'clock last night and me not allowed to go near him. Oh, to think of it, my husband dead and locked away
 
 cholera morbus. The deceased man was native of Arlington, Vermont He was married three times His first wife died, leaving him no children. His second wife was divorced from him about four years ago. By her he had one boy, now seventeen years of age. Two years ago his divorced wife, under the name of Mary F. Hawkins, came to this city. About the same time he and his third wife left Arling- ton, Vt., and lived short times in different places. Eighteen months ago they, too, came to New Haven and located at 312 Da- venport avenue. MT. Knight and his third wife did not live very happily together. He was quick of temper, but no quicker than she. He worked for year at the frog shop on Congress avenue. For the past six months he has worked at the Barnes Tool com pany's shop, corner of Artisan and Grand streets The boy has lived part of the time with his mother and part of the time with his father. This apparently did not tend to increase the family peace of MT. Knight.
 Dr. Reilly tried to calm the excited woman by telling her that her husband had all the symptoms of cholera morbus, but that under the circumstances an autopsy was necessary. As God is my judge,'' she cried, ''I did not poison him. told the doctors to search the whole house. They can't find anything here, for there is nothing and there has never DcoA any GA1uS. My OOU! UHlS IS GerT1Dl6, to be under such a suspicion, but am innocent as innocent as a child"
 According to her story her husband got divorced from his other two wives on the ground of infidelity. She said he was exact ing and cruel, and once knocked her over clear across the room just because his victuals did not suit him. ''He earned $15 a week, but never gave me cent. He paid the rent and brought in the provisions, and that was all he did for me. In the five years we have been married he bought me only one dress. He abused me shame fully with his tongue. All there is in the room here" she continued, lis mine but the stove. They are things I earned by hard work" It is said the couple had hard words the last morning at breakfast. Medical Ex- aminer White, assisted by Dr. Reilly, made the autopsy. He said it would take several days before he could make report and that if it had not been for the statements of the de- ceased certificate of death by cholera nor bus would have been given. Coroner Boil man being away, his deputy, Lawyer H. D. Russell, ordered the autopsy. Mrs. Knight Her first husband was dead. She. had an in surance on Knights life in one of the numer- Ous companies that take weekly payments on policies. The policy will bring her about S100. She paid the cost, twenty cents week, out of her earnings at laundry work. She is respectable looking woman. The funeral will probably take place to-day.