Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-01-23
o1lIRv0Y4Yr WOOD DhAD.



MTH. Isabella Wood, oolcrae, OF No.
7I0 Locust street. long known among
certain classics IN this city as o clair
voyaat OF UnuEusl powers, died last
night Wesk Of IN aggravated attack Of the
grippe. The deiaRsed wBs Que Of the
most popular fortune telleEs in this city.
Her place WAS the resort at various times
OF hundr3iB Of citiz5ns, 10th men and
women, white and ooloesG, who PLACED
the most implicit faith in the Womans
revelations. She seRped lasge hErvests
from her visitors. PfiYate carriages have
been seen at Eer doorway night and day.
Mrs. Wood also had the credit Of curing
dsaaseg By the laying on OF hands.
She figured notably in the municipal
court Cn December 2lst last,
when she Sas the chief AMI
only prosecutor OF her husband,
Frank Wood, whom she charged with at
tempting to murdes her. Mrs. Wood on
that occasion toll story CT terrible b u
tallty committed by her husband who,
ste stated, dragged her out of bed, took
her 20 q stove in the Zoom ami held her
feet there until the coles were burnt to o
ori p. He thsn beat her until she was
covered with bruises SID cuts. The
woman wRs in sGch condition tbat
when giving her testimony in court 81 0
could not stand. Subsequent invssti a.
tion ahoHd 4 that her story wBa true. The
nugsa who hHd charge OF her last night
week stated 10 q reporter Thursday that
Iho podyis covered wi h wounds, and tnat
tho Solas OF her feet aea burnt to crisp.
As regards the husband, Frank Wood,
coloTed, who ia now in Naw CASTLE jail,
hsld in 81 600 ba | on tho charge Of as
aault with tent to commit murder, it is
feared that When his case comes up for
TRIAL February next, for which term OF
court il is listed, thGt he will have to be
! discharged for lack o. evidence, the chief
witness &Fs. WOODY being dead. II WAS
on her verbal testimony alane that the
prisoner was held.
Co. oner Gamble on Friday afternoon
empsre.ed o jury TO hold en- inquest on
Isabella W0ods, the colosad clairyoyhns,
concerning whose deah there haH been
soma suspieiap ;hat Il was dus 10 the
cruelty OF her husband.
Dr. Patterson tsAtltad chat he began Il
! attend ho w0msr Oh January StA, and
that ahe was suffering from pneumonis
and She SAID n1thipg about bruisaH ol
burns iulicted by her husband. ihs doe
tor testified that she died from pneumo
MA.
A number OF witnessea testified TO tht
fso: that they heard the woman say thai
her husband mad been tina rause of ber
dsath. Albert Weekly, the - years. OLE
lad who lived with aha Woods repeated
the atory OF the Husbands brutal trset
mens of his wife on December 2iat, wheI
he burned her faet 10 the red hot Goals G
the stove Ebian had hean overturned dur
ing tho seriil4 between them. He st
told hcw W0aas bsd made thEee Rttempt
to stab her and did cut her once. II wa
testified, however, that Mra. Woods has
apparently recovered from tho Facts o
her husbands abuse aud only three dRyl
before Hhs was taken sick had visited he
husband in New Castle jail and had take,
rome dRlnties to him.
The burn on her font had mac
fpyorablA progress toward healing Rnt
shere asemed to he little or no conneotio!
between the beating which the womsi
received and her i!lness aiter~ard. a
least, so thought the igry for they rsn
dered veTeio. o. dsaiE from pneumonia