The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-27
TIE wALKup CASE.
Damaging Evidence Against the Wide
Though Relatiyes Claim Her Innecenee

Damaging Evidence Against the widow
Though Relatives Claim Her Innocence.
EMroRIA. KAs, August 26.-The cor
oner's inquest in the walkup case wa
continued to-day, the testimony being full
covering minute "details and embracing
many facts otwhich the public have al.
ready been made acquainted. William
Willis, fifteen years old, cousin Of Mrs,
walkup, was examined, a large portion oi
whose evidence concerned canned cove
Eoysters, Of which deceased ate freely, With
liberal quantities OF vinegar and condi.
ments. Witness laid much stress upon
the caution he alleges to have given in re-
gard TO eating canned goods. 81.
Miss Libbie Walkup, daughter OF the de.
ceased, was recalled, and gave detailed
account OF the strange episode OF the find
inI OF her bed.clothing on fire at the head
and foot during q night shortly previous
to her fathers death. The jury adjourned
till morning. s
Considerable delay Ia occasioned pend
ing chemical analysts Of the stomach and
yiscera sent for that purpose to Kansas
City. The analyzer telegraphs this after.
noon that he wishes ut least three days to
make the examination. E. Finley, brother.
in-law, OF Mrs. Walknp, arrived from New
Orleans to-day. Mr.. Finley 10 the husband
OF Dora Wallace, over whom the Mascot
trouble arose last January, the affair cul.
minating in the death Of Robert Brewster
at the hands Of George 0smond, the edi-
tor, who shot Brewster, who accompanied
James Houston, brother Of Judge Hous.
ton, the godfather Of Mrs. Walkup, and
the gentleman concerned in the Dora
Wallace Finley affair. Mr.. Finley says in
an interview this evening":
1I.fifst received notice OF the uniortu.
nate affair last Saturday. was about
ready to start 10 Chicago on an excursion,
and would have been on the road in few
minutes, when Mrs. Wallace received the
following dispatch: .Mr. Wslkup Is dead.
1 am In trouble. Come quick.@
In twenty minutes alter this dispatch
was received MIR. Finley was on his way
TO Emporia. He said that Mrs. Walkup
was quite cheerful to-day, and believes
that public sentiment is changing in her
favor, and thought only q few days would
be required to clear the matter to the sat
Of the public. He said he had
known OF cases in which suspicion wss
much stronger than in this case, and
where Il seemed that conviction wonld
soon be rendered. He thought itvery un.
fortunate that Mrs. Walkup had bought
arsenic at q drug store previous to her hus-
bands death, and that he felt no indigna
ton at suspicion on the partof the people.
He said that Judge Houston would be
here in few days, as would also Mrs.
Wallace, and that they desired a thorough
investigation.
"A strange case, associated by many
with the poisoning affair in question, has
come to light here. William Born, pro.
prietor OF a meat market, was taken sud
denly illaiter returning home from the
reception rendered Mr.. and Mrs. Walkup,
some weeks ago, developing symptoms Of
nausea, cramps, rigidity Of limbs and
usually following csses Of poi
soning. Born, before, was in robust
health, and has been confined to his
house since, and attributes his condition
10 the same poisoning substance, possibly
imbibed at Walknp's on the night in
question. Public sentiment ia divided,
but the preponderance Of opinion holding,
as at first, that the widow is thought to
be implicated, on evidence that strongly |
attests that theory.
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