Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-09-01
ii CASE.
The Young Wife Declared 10 BE the
Murderer of Her Husband.
The Result of the Chemical Analysis
Poisoned with Arsenic.

EMPoRIA, KAs, August 31.-The COM
munity has been in suspense sl day,
awaiting the announcement of the result
of the chemical analysis by Professor
Jones of Kansas City in the Waikup case.
The report has been forwarded by regis
tered letter and is now in the postotice
here 1t will be delivered to the coroner
to day. Nothing can be learned as to the
contents of the document. Mrs. Walkup
remains in The sheriff's quarters at the
courthouse. She is not in confinement,
but, as a relative expressed ii, is "simply
residing with the sheriff's family" Her
mother, Mrs. Wallace, who has been with
her for several days, will return soon 10
New Orleans, being called there by the
i lness of another daughter, and having
become convinced that Mrs. Walkup is
being well provided for. Judge Houston
of Mrs. Walkup, will remain here. The
sheriff states that her cousin, youpg
Willis, who is under arrest, will be re-
leased to-day. To satisfy themselves
and the public regarding the theory
that the deceased might have been
poisoned by arsenic in the sub-nitrate of
bismuth that was administered him, DR..
Jacobs, the attending physician, and
County Attorney Feighan, Saturday even
ing, took sixty grains of the compound
from the same package as that given the
patient, and have felt no i'll effects to-day
from the doses.
THE RESULT OF THE ANALYSIS.
The following is the certificate of analy-
sis received by Coroner Frost:
In regard TO the Kansas City Medical College
Analysis of the Remains If Mr. n. Walkup
State of Missouri, County OF jackson, SIS:
VN.IIiono T1nao hainn Aulu cUnrn nm
oath, states tina: he is now aud has been
for one year past professor of chemistry in
the Kansas City Medical College, and that
for three years past he has made a special
ty of examining organic substances for the
detection Of poison; that on or about August
Is, 1885, this affiant received from one
s. D. Harrison, NJ. D, of Enporia, Kss.
specimens of a humans remains, repre-.
sented to be those of one Walkup of EN-
poria, Kas., deceased, consisting of stom
ach, one kidney, portion Of intestines
contents OF stomach and a portion O
blood that this sffiant has made a careful
analysis of the contents of the said stom'
ach aud portion of liver for the detection
of arsenic and mercury, and has discovered
therein arsenic in appreoiable quantities
but nc traces of mercury; that arsenic
was discovered in both the portions Of
liver and the contents of the stomach.
WILLIAM JONES.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
29;h day of August, 1856.
W. A. ANDERSON,
Notary Public, Jackson county, No.
The ~coroner's jury met at 8 o'clock this
forenoon and called on Mrs. Wallace,
mother of Mrs. Walkup, to give her testi.
mony. The inquest will no doubt termi.
nate and the verdict of the jury be zen.
dered to-day.
THE ~ooRoNER's
Late this afternoon the c%oroner's jury re-
turned a verdict finding that the deceased
came to his death by arsenic poisoning,
and from all the evidence the Jury believe
that the arsenic was Administered to him
feloniously by his wife, Minnie Wallace
Walkup. A warrant has been sworn out
for Mrs. Walkup's arrest, and she will
have a preliminary hearing tomorrow
morning,