The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-20


an interval Of his paroxysms, groaned
ont, oh, doctor! | was all right until
ate that little piece Of pork.
n happened 10 look up at the time and
found The wife's eyes bent upon my face
with sharp scrutiny Of suspicious In
spection. But there was trouble written
in her face, and ! attributed the look al
the time to the natural anxieties Of a
wife. had a more important case on
hand for that morning, and giving the
necessary directions to the woman, to-
gether with Instructions to call the fam
| lily physician next day, and believing
that the watchman with the necessary
attention was IN Q tair way Of recovery,
retired
but the watchfnan died, read Of
the fact in the newspapers, hrlt found
that no suspicious attached in the case;
poison was not even limited at. / re-
member only entertaining surprise at
the time, but as the time went by the
affair grew upon me To such degree
that ! was constrained by curiosity,
which amounted to partial mania, to in.
ycstigate One day | happened in to the
health office, where the record Of deaths
and their causes are kept. and turning
to the proper name found that the
watchman's death was attributed to the
intense heat which prevailed upon the
night when he was found writhing upon
his beat.
lit instantly occurred to me that DR..
q, whom ! knew, must have known
from the mans general condition, as
well as the medicine which prescribed,
that it was case Of strychnine poison
ing, and | must confess that it struck
me with . suspicion, which | Instantly
repelled, that the doctor was in some
way particeps criminis. ! made it a
point, however, to casually throw my
self in his way, and to raise the question
Of the death Of the watchman. The
first few wordswhich the doctor dropped
convinced me that he was in no way
mixed up in the mysteries Of the death.
He stated briefly that when he was
called the man was dying, with only a
few breaths left in bis body. The wife
had informed him that ! had been gone
but a short time before he was called,
and that | had said her husband had
been overcome BY the heat and some
thing the watchman had eaten, which
disagreed with bis stomach. The fact is
DR.. G, had not been called in until the
afternoon. On comparing notes DR.. G.
became interested, and knowing the
people in the neighborhood, where he
was often called, began course of eau
lions inquiry, and in the course of time
gave me the following facts:
when the watchman died, and while
the preparations for the funeral were 60
ing on, the widow gave great scandal to
the neighborhood on account of her de-
pertinent. Her face was absolutely
radiant with the happiest Of expressions
and the sound Of her voice was as joyous
az fhe expression OF her face. She talked
giiniyon the most trivial Of subjects and
welcomed people as though wedding
instead OF . funeral were going on. No
ticing finally that some of the callers
were shocked u her actions, she became
delnure and silent, and called up an
aifectation OF sudden grief, but 1T did
not last long; the OLD radiance came
back and u seemed that the short time
q her simulated grief redoubled the in
tensity OF her broadly apparent happi-
ness when her natural feelings tn
umphed.
IN due time after the burial OF her
husband she drew $1,000 insurance
money from a lite insurance company,
and disposins g sieh eifects as she had,
bought tickets tor herself and family OF
three chitdren 10 England, 1t was only
after her departure that Dr. Y. learned
that the medicines which ! had pre-
scnpea had not been administered, but
had been Thrown IN a closet, where they