The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-01
THEY WERE POISONED.
Ignorant Parents. Pbysic Their Chill
flren and They Die.

Tilda Logan, jamie Logan, Lille Logan,
aged respectively S, 7 and years. died iast
Thursday morning at the home OF thelr
mother, Lizzie Logan, negro woman, living
on the plantation belonging TO- DR.. 8; q.
Thomson, some eight miles south OF Aooe-
vile.
with Lizzie Logan, was lodged In jail to await
the result OF the analysis OF the stomach OF
one of the children, and on yesterday the
Press and Banner called to get bis version OF
The children were taken sick Tuesday eve
ming and died Thursday morning. the motn-
er gave them horehound tea for bad colds be.
fore they took 10 their beds. When they were
| very sick she gave them seine turpentine and
Samson snake root. The children became
delirIous on Tuesday night and had spasms::
being absent from home, he did not return
until abput midnight, and did not answer Inc
call until Thursday morning. when the chil-
dren were dead. The prisoner is about saa twen;
ty years OF age. He says that he married
Liar Kennedy last May, but they Psrted 10
and be thought it was better to quit her than
self for wages this year to Ed Hamilton. who
flives on the plantation belonging 70 bf'
Thomson.
The jury of inquest was duly organized by
]. Foster Hammond, with Lewis TruWitt, as
DR.. Harrison and DR.. Hunter were the ply
sicians who performed the autopsy. Inc
StOfQacQB Oh 6ACQ Oh LQ6 u6du Cullui Cu W0io
examined. and the physicians have no doubt
that they died from an irritant poison. they
were taken sick about the same time and dled
within three hours Of each other,
| The mother testified before the jury thatsne
gave them Samson snake root tea and hore-
hound tea, and gave them nothing else.
There Is no doubt that the children dled
seea eG% is %as
In ten tionally7 The feeling OF the neigh6or
negroes is decidedly against the MOTHER VINO
| seemed unmoved al the death OF her chill
effort TO secure medical aid. The sufferngs or
the children is said TO have been intense.
DR.. Harrison and DR.. Game are now ana
and Dave Webster is held subject TO the result
/ of that investigation.
1t is simply astonishing TO US that parents
who are totally ignorant OF medicine, VINO VINO
have no ability 10 diagnose disease, ana
who have no intelligent ideas OF the human
anatomy, will presume to drench their inno-
cent and trusting children With the most
deadly medicine known TO the materia
1t is barely possible that these children may
have swallowed "Rough. on Rats" or some
other equally mild medicine. 1t is also pos
sible for the deadly effect OF arsenic TO be ex,
ceeded in fatality by "a good dose OF calomeI
or dose OF good pills." which may be given
at the wrong time.
hands in horror at the idea OF this ignorant
negro mother poisoning her children, yet 1t Ia
perfectly certal In that many, very many,
white parents have given 70 their innocent
| babes "calomel" and good pills" with an Ell.
feet not less deadly In results. II there Is one
| thing in which our statutes IL derelict. II 10
| in not Furnishing with the severest penaltles
known 70 The law, the act OF Ignorant though
well-meaning parents, In presuming to phys'
| ic their children.
II there is q greater crime under heaven
which Is blacker and more appalling tnan al
the rest, II is the sin full foolish, wicked, GRIM
NAL practice which has obtained In this coun-
try Of pouring medicines down the throats OF
little children. None but parents who are
reckless OF the lives Of theil children should
eltherl take themselves, or give TO their
children. any medicine which Is not prescrib-
ed by the doctor In whose skill they have the
greatest confidence, and which has been coin.
pounded by u druggist who Is both efficient
and honest.
None but fool will swallow medicine ex-
cept In faer and trembling, even when au'
mlnistered by the best medical skill, and we
believe IL Is the duty Of the physician TO let
ignorant, though we'll meaning fools, have
some idea OF the damage they may 90 III
handling posons, and idiots ought 10 know
that all medicines, are more or less poisonous