Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-12

inc who forthwith made q calculation on
asheet Of paper.
Fourteen powders are gone; that would
indicate that the box had Deen IN use, Dr.
| Carrick, for ut least twenty-eight days be
fore the death of Mr.. Mauleyerer. BE
good enough, sir, to tell me what is the
date written on the box as that on which
it was supplied from your SURGERY sep
TENDER D, sir
"Ah! that is Just thirty-three days be-
fore the night of this fatal event. Now L
must ask you DR.. Carrick, topay parttcu-
lar attention to the questions l am aoou
10 nut TO YOU, and to remember that the
life of n fellow-creature may depend upon
your answers Who prepared these pow
ders?" II did my self, sir. l have no
dispenser" u,o, .sTn
"And where did you preparethem' LII
nv own dispenSary.' ~
sSTbe drug, 1 suppose, is q perfectly sum
! nile oue-the powders mean, hau NOT 10
ha compounded Of different drugs NO;
all | had to do was to weigh the Dronilue
of notasSium and make each dose up III q
senarlte niece of paper in the usual man
ner." ~
"Wbere do YOU keep your stock OF bro
midc9' In a large glass jar on the
shelf Of the cupboard in my d~lspehSary'
VERY good; and now, SIR, answer me
without hesitation, where DO you keep
YOUR stock of strychnia?' IN the Sine
!.Abr Belmore looked up Mt the jury
with a face that spoke volumes. Every
body saw the point ut which he was ann
ino-eyerybody except my darling, VINO
Slt looking pale and tatigued, and almost
~Iistless IA though the whole thing were a
yb,stly farce which wearied her. At long
interyals she raised her eyes and looked AT
me Ii a only then that any Sign oil lie
or feeling came into her dear Race.
CrosS-examiDatiOn cOntinued-"1ou say
the strychnia and bromide OF potassium
were kent in the same cupboard. Now do
pou ever make mistakes, DIR. CarrlrN, III
the compromising OF your medicines!
well. sir-I should not like TO say posi-
lively"
Come. ONE DIR. Carrick, be frank with
Us. Tell me; did you ever make a mistake
i'm making up your medicines:
Belmole stood like n tower among ms
seated brethren. His long arm was out
stretched. and his tOreIinger, when was
pointed directly at the heart OF the Wit
| ness almost seemed rs though 1t We're u
rlpier. by which the unhappy man had
hes.n trans6Xed. There was something
terrible, too, in the eye of the great adNO-
cate rs il flashed upOn the witness, some
| thing mercileSs in the firmly closed mouth
! with which he waited for the answer to ms
question. Everybody in court, | think,
was f,cinated by the spectacle. There ne
stood motionlesS rs a statue, and unrelent-
ing as an inquisitOr, while Dr. CarrlcN
writhed visibly before him.
You must answer the question, SIT,
! slid the Judge in percmptOry tones.
Rreathiug hard, and pausing a INT
To wine the perSpiratiOn from his forehead,
/ the witness spoke: II have made q mis-
take once-is was years ago
What was it?' Il used a wrong drug
in making up a simple prescription
The wrong drug. Tell me the name OF
hat DRUG. SIR 1T was arsenic. My lord,
this happened twenty years ago, and as
sure Your lDrdShiptha there has heen moth
ing
Answer my question, sir and don't
make SPECIFIC" said BelmOre. You tell
M that Won did make 4 mistake once, II
that O nut arsenic into your medicine In
stead of something else. Pray what was
the result OF that mistake? DID your pa
tirnt take the medicine "He dld, SIR
And he died?' Yes, To my laStinS
pain and sorrow, he died. 1t was a baby,
air
Don't make speeches, DR.. Carrick. You
tell me that once already you have mate
a mistake in ~compOunding your msdlclnes
which cost one of your fellow creatures his
life. Now, will you admit the possibility
of your having made another mistake? You
know YOUR strychnia and your bromide OF
potassium were in the same cupboard IN
your laboratory NO, SIR, can ADMIT
that | made any mistake on this occasion.
rot a terrible lesson twenty years ago. >
No doubt YOU did; hut, excuse me,
did not ask YOU whether You had or had
not made a mistake on this occasion, but
whether it was or was not possible for you
Ia do SOP NO, sir; it was impossible
You are intallible now he:' Yes,
sir" blurted put the unhappy man, who
evidently did not know whether he was
standing on his head or his heels.
Well. | mean to ask the jury to pro
nouncc IN opinion upon that point, DIR.
Carrick. IOu can 90 now"
But before he went he WAS rc-cXamlned
By Hawk.
DO q recOllect making mp these par
ticular powders for Mr.. Mauleyerer:
Perfectly WE'LL
Are YOU quite certain You made no
mistake" Il am positive did not
In what part Of your cupboard do You
keep your strychnia?" 'On the top shelf,
sir"
Now, there were eighteen powders or
i%ginally in that box. were they all made
ND AT the same time Undoubtedly,
sir"
From the same bottle of BROMIDE
Certainly
"Were you interrupted while making
them up" ''NOt that | remember"
Have YOU examined the four powders
which remain i'm the bOX?' Yes, in COM
pany with my eminent medical colleague,
Mr.. Allgood, / have examined them
And do they consist of bromide of OPP
taSsium OF Strychnia:' OF bromide, OF
course"
''Then we may take it for granted that
Mr.. Mauleverer had been using these pow
ders without suffering any i'll effect from
them down to the day of his death, and
that all the powders left in the box after
his death are perfectly harmless" Il APP
prehend that is the case
DIR. Carrick WAS followed by Mr.. All
good, +. K. e. s., the eminent Psychologist,
who gave convincing evidence Of the real
cause of Mr.. Mauleverer'S death. The
unfortunate millionaire had evidently ia
ken a large dose of strychnia about m
hour and q half before he was heard by
! the servant maid 10 cry out. He confirmed
/ Carrick's statement regarding the powders
remaining in the box. He had not dis
/ covered any trace of bromide of potassium
in his analysis of the contents of deccased'S
I stomach.
After him came the chemist ut Little
LOrtOn, Mr.. Smirke, who told how on the
9TH of October the prisoner had driven up
/ to his shop in her uncle's carriage, and had
explained that she wished for a quantity
of strychnia, to be employed in poisoning
the rats which abOunded in the cellars of
hall. He had remarked upon the very