The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-28
THE INVESTIGATION.
A Correspondent Visits the Scene
of the Sensation.
Correspondence Hampshire Review.

of the Sensation.
Correspondence Hampshire Review.
LITTLE CAPoN, Feb. 17.-Your cor
respondent, in accordance with your
instructions came here this morning,
to investigate the reported burial
alive of Miss Cox stopping on the
way to see DR.. w. V. Kirk, the at
tending physician, at Paw Paw. l
find that while there is some diver
sity opinion regarding the question
as to whether the young woman was
really entombed while in a comatose
condition, there is a well defined feel
ing among some that such was really
the case. Appended is the result of
interviews with DR.. Kirk and with
persons living at or near the scene Of
the burial. The statement of Or.
Kirk, is in effect, as follows:
DIR. KIRK STATEMENT.
DR.. Kirk said that DR.. Shipley, of
Paw Paw, was called in to see the
young lady and thinking she was not
seriously i'll, he left some medicine,
and twelve days later, DIR. Kirk was
sent for without anything being said
to DIR. Shipley. Dr. Kirk said he
thought the young lady was dying
when he got there, about 7 80 o'clock
A. NJ; that she seemed to be suffering
very much and Mrs. Seaton, with
whom Miss Cox was stopping, in
sisted that he should give the latter
something to make her easy. He
says he gave her J grain of opium
and left another grain dose to be
given at night if she was not any
easier. He claims that if both doses
had been given within the interval
stated heretofore, it would not have
had any serious effect. Dir. Kirk
says there were evidences of decom-
position before she died. Both doses
would not have put her to sleep.
The one dose Of opium was admins.
tered about 8 o'clock, A. NJ. and she
died about 2:30 P. NJ. DR.. Kirk
stated also that Miss Cox was con-
scious and talked three hours after
the medicine was given, but Mrs.
Seaton says she went to sleep in
twenty minutes after taking the OPT
UNI and did not awaken again, more
than to partially open her eyes. DR..
Kirk pronounced her disease typhoid
pneumonia.
MRS. sEAToN's STATEMENT.
Mrs. George M. Seaton living at
this place, at whose house Miss Cox
died, said DR.. Kirk left with her a
number of powders of one kind, and
two others, which he told her to be
careful to keep separated from the
first as they were morphia, and should
be handled very carefully. Mrs. Sea-
ton was clear in her statement that
DR.. Kirk told her the two powders
contained morphia and she repeated
it several times. The morphia pow
ders were to be given, the first on the
night of that day and the second
twenty-fours later, if the patient APP
peared restless. This was Mrs. Sea-
TONS recollection Of Dr. Kinks direc-
ton with reference to the morphia
powders and she says that DIR. Ship
ley stated, on examination, that the
two powders contained morphia.
She also said that DR.. Kirk stayed
about twenty minutes after giving the
and that Miss Cox went to
sleep in less than a half-hour after
the medicine was given and was not
afterward. When they
carried her to the other room she
opened her eyes but could not be
made to understand what they were
going to do. The deceased had two
sisters living on the Levels who were
notified of her illness and were asked
to come and attend her week before
she died; but one was living with an
elderly invalid lady and she could
not get off and the other one did not
receive the message until after the
death. Mrs. Seaton says the deceased
was not given any opium or morphia
excepting the dose administered by
DIR. Kirk.
Miss Cox was 20 years old and has
always been delicate. She has been
living in the family of Mr.. VIM. Hass
for two years and went to the home
Of Mrs. Seaton to stay all night,
when she became sick and could not
get away. Mrs. Seaton sent word to
her sisters, as stated, and when they
lid not come she did the best she
could for her. Mrs. Seaton said the
corpse was offensive as it was being
for burial. The death oc-
cured on Monday about 2 o'clock,
?. NJ. and the funeral on Wednesday
about 8 o'clock, r. M. The corpse
was in a cold room during the in
serval
HOW THE STORY STARTED.
Mr.. F. H. Kline, who superintend-
I'd the funeral states that Mrs. Mary
Whitacre, one of the attendants at |
;he funeral, said, before the corpse
eft Mrs Seaton's house, that she