The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
TOLD BY A DOCTOR.

CraZed with Drink, az Distinguished Gen
tleman" Fatally Pounds His Young and
Devoted Wife,"
''You know nothing about intemper-
ance,' said noted physician. Il
could write volumes that would amaze
YOU
write one," / said.
''It would be breach of honor. A
physician, like Romish priest, may
not betray the confessional. After a
moment he added: ''Our profession
takes us into homes; and lives and
hearts that seem all bright and happy
are often dark and miserable from sick
ness of the soul, y
There must be some scenes that it
would be proper for me to tell you,n /
urged; ''please think of some
Il was called to the wife of distin-
guished gentleman. Her husband sat
bv her bed fam NC her, and lovely
bouquet of flowers was on the stand by
her side. Two little g rls were playing
quietly in the room. 1t was charming
picture of love and devotion.
MY wife fell down stars said her
husband, and fear has hurt herself
seriously
L examined her shoulder. 1t was
swollen and almost black, and one RIB
was broken.
"'How do you find her?' asked her
husband, anxiously.
81 will ask the questions, if you
please. How did you SO injure your
self p
''sI fell on the stairway
81 hesitated | was not in a poor
shanty, but in the house of we'll
known and nnstained man. / re-exam-
ined her side.
"'When did she fall?' | asked.
"'Last night. he said, after q Sec
ond's pause and glance at her.
s.My resolve was taken.
"'Please show me the place on the
stairs where she struck?' I said to the
husband, rising and going out. He fol-
lowed me.
Il was not with her when she fell, )
he said.
"'The injury was not from fall and
it was not done last night. Never try
to deceive doctor.
"'She begged me not to tell you the
truth.
"'Then get another physician I
said.
"I will tel you the whole truth.
Night before last l had been out to
dinner
I saw your brilliant speech in the
papers. Was it wine-inspired?'
. Partly. Most after-d;nner speeches
are to degree. came home excited
by the fine dinner, wit, wisdom and
wine of the evening, and went, not to
bed, but to the closet and drank
heavily. My wife heard me and
came down, hoping to coax me
upstairs, as she had done many times.
But she was too late, My reason and
manhood were gone, and / pounded
her, and left her. She tried to follow
me, but fell on the stairs. After time
she crawled, she says, upstairs and
went into the nursery and slept w tn
the little girls. | slept lac, and woke
with a fierce head ache, and went out at
once, thinking no bre 4kfast and the out
door air would clear my brain for my
morning engagements. | pledge you
my hoLor had forgotten | struck my
wife. When l came back last night
found her suffering, but she would not
permit a physician should be sent for
lest it should disgrace me. I think she
really tries to believe that she hurt her
self, more or less, when she fell. And
with an honest culver of the chin he
added: She is an angel, and wine is a
deyiln
"'What are wine bibbers?'
Gown children of their father. Is my
wife seriously hurt?'
''' can not tell yet Ifear she is. ,
'.More absolute, untiring devotion no
man ever gave wife than he gave her
while she lived and suffered. When her
noble, true, loving hear ceased TO throb
he was inconsolable. His love and
devotion were the theme of every lip,
and the providence that SO afflicted him
was called strange in tone of semi
censue! On the tomb is cut the be
loved wife, He has gone to her now,
in that land of no license
mo one but myself ever knew the
truth. p National Temperance AdUo-
onfo