Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-17
SCREENING SIGHT AND SMELL
Poison Enough h His Stomach to Kill Two
 Men, It Is Sald.
MRS. sPvEY IS MUCH DoWNcAST
Uessrs Denson and Clark to Cross Swords on Saturday - Deputy Marshalships Below Par A Negro Burglar
 Killed General News.
Age-ITerald Bureau,
 Exchange Hotel
UNEMPLOYMENT. .lNlY 1e,

Exchange Hotel,
 Montgomery, July ie
 The sensational Spivey poisoning case hich developed here yesterday, and an count of which was published in the gc- Herald of this morning, is stlli the ! lk of the town. and liable 10 continue so until after the trial.
 The coroners jury composed of Messrs. c. B. Groom, J. w. Dennis, l.. Lassiter, s. II. Mobson, Joe Dreyfiis and J. M. Kennedy, reassembled at o'clock this morning and proceeded with the invest- gation.
 Dr. R. s. Hill, the physician who was called to see MT. Spivey just before his death, testified substantially as follows:
 T was called to see Mir. Spiyey about , or o'clock on the afternoon of his death. and when I arrived the patient was in a dying condition; I examined the patient and asked Mrs Spivey if he had not taken morphine; she replied that he had not. I then asked her if tEere was any morphine in the house which he might have taken without her knowledge. She said there was some morphine in the house about two years ago. l asked her to look it up and see if it was still there; she replied that she would know mor- phine if she saw it; ,she did not know whether il was there or not. l was in the house about fifteen of twenty minutes be- fore death; l told Mrs Spivey that the patient s symptoms were that death was 54used by opium or morphine poisoning.
 .'I asked her how long the patient had teen in the condition I found him. She Eepled that he seemed to be all right Up to about one hour before I was called in; that at that time he did not seem to be dangerously sick"
 After hearing the testimony of Dr. Hill the jury took a recess until II o'clock. when in a body they went to Oakwood cemetery, and Coroner Campbell eS~ humed the body.
 The stomach was taken out by Drs. Thorington and Hill who made an exam- ination of it and, it is said, discovered sufficient quantity of poison in the stom- ach to kill two men.
 Coroner Campbell sealed up the stom- ach in a glass case, and will ship it to the state chemist at Auburn for an exhaust i've analysis When the lid from the cof- fn was presented the body presented g. auseous sight. It was as black as that of negro, and horrible smells issued forth. It was a tough job for the coroner and the doctors, but they managed to go through with it.
 The investigation will be resumed by the coroner at ' o'clock this evening. at which time the father of Spivey and oth- CT important witnesses will be examined.
 Mrs. Spivey is very comfortably nxe6 Tn the county Jdll. SHe occupies tue cSii in which Ike Vincent, Alabama's default ing state treasurer was confined, which has been furnished with tables, chairs and other furniture for her convenience. Her breakfast and dinner are sent to her from the Dexter house.
 Mrs. Tillie Hodge and James MclIugh called at the jail this morning and were admitted to Mrs. Spivey's cell. They are old friends of the accused.
 Mrs. Spivey refuses to see the newspa- per reporters, upon the advice. of her lawyer MT. James Fuller. She seems nt- terly crushed and low spirited, and is not inclined to talk even to her friends. She sits in the same attitude. with her head down uttering low moans, or sobbing. nearly all the time. Her little boy re- mained with her last night. but was re- moved this morning back to the Dexter house. where he is being kindly cared for by friends.
 Mrs. Spivey came from Knoxville, Tenn, to this city several years ago. She has been. married twice. her first husband being John Zachry with whom she could not get along, and they sepa- rated It is said he either committed sui eide afterwards or died under suspicious circumstances. She is a very beautiful and attractive woman, very stout of build, but shapely, and has very sweet and bright little child about years old, of which she has always been quite proud and very fond.
 After the stomach was removed the remains of Spivey were again inferred in the grave from which they were ex- humed.