The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
A Fatal Dose.

read with interest by many hereabouts.
where the deceased formerly lived and
was well known
veterinary Surgeon II. j. McIIugh
went into Charles f. Leyere's harness
shop. ll5 Crown street, in DR.. Hoadley's
building, at 80 o'clock yesterday after
noon, He talked nationally enough and
asked for glass of water. When the
/ goblet was placed in his hand he sudden
ly drew forth a drug lists package and
before motion could be made to stop
him poured the contents a white powder,
into the water. He raised the glass and
at one gulp drank his death. MclIugh
sank on his chair murmuring. "Well, I'm
done Tor now; / have taken 10 grains of
morphine" \ messenger sped over the
way to the Standard Cab companv's OIL
ce and superintendent William IL. SAWYER
/ rushed over To LeVeraS shop. "IIOw are
/ you, doctOr?' asked Mr.. sawyer. "Oh,
/ pretty well-iG's turned cut to be rather
warinish weather alter all. hain't it,"
was the reply.
McIlugh had lain back in chair as if
asleep, but reused himself as his friend
Sawyer entered and spoke to him. While
Il messenger was on his way to the police
Office for the purpose of notifying the au-
/ thorities, Sawyer picked up the glass and
discussed the white particles of morphia
yet cllnging TO its surface. Officer
/ ByXbee entered and escorted MclIugh
to police headquarters. where DR.. G.
Pardy Lindley administered an emetic
and at once ordered his removal to the
hospital.
An hour afterwards the suicide
brealhed his last in the accident room of
the State hospital, Drs, Madden and
Beckwith attending him. DR.. Maiden
described last night to Il uorHiHg NeWS
reporter the points of the case.
when the patient was lifted out of the
ambulance" said the docter. "One could
see that his recovery was extremely
doubtful. The pupils of his eyes were
contorted to an extra rdnary degree and
that itself was enough to. denote that
death was not very far Off. Dir. Lindley.
who had accompanied him. said. there's
a man out there who has taken ten grains
OF morphia.' He was pretty well gone
when | saw him and one of the ward
masters, NilSon,put him into the accident
bed. Only one thing could be done; we
slapped him as hard as we could, using
wet towels to start the circulation.
struck him myself repeatedly on the
checks, but couid not arouse him. DR..
BechWith was upstairs ut clinic and SUI
pelintcndent StarkWeather asked him to
come down stairs ut my request. The
stomach pump was inserted, coffee and
apo-morphia being used. They had no
effect. We then used hypodermic doses
Of WhlSkcy. Next we administered sui
phatc OF atropla to counterfeit the NOR
phia still continuing the Siappn%, Not
Il word did the patient say, not an indi-
cation that any sense of his awful condi-
ton had come to him. He passed away
quietly and easily rs if he were sleeping
There was really no hope for the man
when he was deposited at our door. At
that time he was practically dead
The average dose of morphine said
DR.. james y. Reilly a. he sat smoking in
his cosey office last night, is One-eighth
of grain, one-siXth being powerful
dose and one-quarter maximum. The
att opia administered to MclIugh is aka
loid of atropia. The best medical service
i'll the world would not have saved the
: patient. Perhaps emctics, the strongest
possible. might have changed matters
; But then MclIugh had :aken enough tc
Kill half dozen strong men"
y bell rung at 50 \ ork street last night
called pretty young lady to the door
= Wheu asked if Mrs. McIlugh could be
seen She wanted to know the object OF
the visit. Standing midway on the stairs
with arms folded statucsquely, the pretty
girl said decisively, Mrs. McIIugh has
nothing whatever to say to the newspa.
pers.'
superintendent Starkweather said last
; night chat Undertaken Blair had already
! measured the body. Medical Examiner
White had looked at the corpse and noti
fled Coroner Mix. Should il be neces
sary Mr.. Mix will order an autopsy wheI
he examines the corpse this morning, al
4 the hospital. Mrs. McHugh was eX
tremely anxious that the body of her hus
e band should be taken to her home las
: night, but this was impossible.
Dr. Ilcllugh was a graduate from the
. college of veterinary surgeons in New
I York city with nigh hOnors. Locally h,
: was regarded by horsemen as skillfu
practitioner, in his services, one of the bes
in the city. The habits of the deceased
were, however, exceedingly irregular
His last tools he sold To Palmer, tn,
n George street blacksmith, not long ago
e Owing to his incompetence his wife. it i.
e said, had threatened time and again t.
: obtain a divorce. Everybody knowing
It the man describes him as man of re
q markably fine physique and excessively
u bright. He was about SO years old,
4 native of Middlebury, VT, where he at
Il tended the district school ana academy
i with Roundsman Mcbride. His wife /,
Z the daughter of he late John O'Connol
{ of that town. MoHugh leaves no child
d rem"
It Medical Examiner White, who super
}, intended the autopsy which was held
i the day after the doctors death. declared
:. emphatically that there was water
/. enough found upon his brain to render
=. the strongest man i'm New Haven hone.
o lessly insane.
Z. The funeral, Rev. Father Cooncy OFF
II ciating, occurred at New Haven Sunday
L. and the remains of the deceased were iu-
: TERED in St. Bernard's Or. O. cemetery.
5 Ills brother, George, and his sisters, Mrs.
n Sargent of this place aud Mrs, Swiney of
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