The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-09-03


Sand up before him and again deceive
him by saying she was iRnocent. He
also stated that while the finding of ap-
preciahle quantities of poison 10 the
stomach In the majority Of tests
would establish the fact OF
death by other than natural
causes; he still believed from what he
had known Of the girls disposition and
childhood that she would be cleared of
suspicion. He said that while he was
nosA relative of the family, he had
known them well for years, and known
them 70 be honorable people,
though unfortunately not we'll
TODD. he felt it incumbent on himself
TO offer his services. In reference 10
the Mascot affair, which has been al
iuded to in the press of the city In con-
nection with the history Of the Wallace
family, judge Houston speaks clearly
and plainly. He says that the Mascot
was 9 scurrilous sheet and the
editor had grudge against
him because Of certain case in his
court. The Mascot then published a
hbalous article about himself and Miss
Dora Wallace which his brother and an
other gentleman tried TO svenge. 4
number of respectable citizens arranged
to mob the editor but were finally per-
suaded not to do so.
WHAT A NEW ORLEANS PAPER SAYS.
ga Times. Democrat reporter called
last night on Mrs. Wallace, the mother
of Mrs. Minnie WAkup, at 222 Canal
street, end found her very much exer-
cised over the matter. She stated that
she had known Gen. Walkup for ten
years. and that he first met her daughter
Minnie in Cincinnati seven years ago.
He was very fine looking man, about
fOEty-two years of age, and his death was
great calamity to his young wife, who
is but seventeen years old. She had been
married month yesterday when the sad
intelligence of his death arrived. Mrs.
Wallace said she had received letter on
the 18th, written on the 18th by her
daughter, that they were about TO leave
for Atchison, Kas., to be gone one week.
That would have brought them back to
EmporIa yesterday. So. when she re-
ceived the telegram from her daughter
that her husband was dead, she thought
it was from some accident. She was
shocked to hear that he had died from
poisoning, and that her nephew Willie
Willis had been arrested charged with
the crime. Willie, she said, was an Or
phan that she had raised and was very
delicate in health, having symptoms of
consumption, He and her daughter
Minnie had grown up together. He was
. great favorite with Mf. Walkup, and 1t
was at his earnest solicitation that the
boy had gone up to Emperia on his pre-
sent visit. he is but eighteen years of
age and has always been 3 good, quiet
boy. It was only the 4th of August
when he left here to visit his cousin and
her husband. As soon as the sad news
came, MIR. Edward Finley, the husband
OF Mrs. Wallace's elder daughter, left
for Emporla tor the purpose of doing all
in his power for the grief stricken
widow. Gen. Wakup was the president
OF the city council of Emporia, and one
of the prominent, men of that part of the
country. His sudden death causes in
tense excitement. Mrs. Wallace is DOS
tive that 1t is owing to the sudden
death and his prominence that Willis
was arrested, and is positive that he is
innocent OF the charge laid at his door.
He Is not bad or vicious boy, and, she
said, he was very fond OF Gen. Walkup
and would not be guilty of a crime of
any kind.''
In reference to arsenic being in the
sUB-NTTRATE OF BIsMUTH,
DR.. Jacobs says that he used the very
best sub-nitrate of bismuth III the mar
ket, prepared by a Brooklyn chemist,
known to the chemical world
to be one of the most
responsible. Quantities of the same
package have been administered in
large doses without any other than usual
results. DR.. Jacobs is quite sure that if
any nitrate of bismuth Is pure and free
from arsenic that which he used was
ana he is willing that any number of
tests should be made in reference to its |
quality.
THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS.
Late this afternoon a telegram to DR. |
g. w. Frost, the coroner. informed him
that he would receive to-mor-
row the report of the chemical
analysis made at Kansas City. No ses-
sion of the coroner's jury has been held
today and none will probably be called
I'LL Monday morning.
PROBATE APPOINTMENTS.
Major G. Hood has been appointed
and L. Severy, D. A.
5tahl and E. Borton appraisers of the
Walkup estate.