The age-herald., 1897-09-12
MURDERED FOR INSURANCE Chas. I. Stewards Slayer to
 Be Tried. HISTORY OF A FAMOUS CASE Guy lack Will Soon Have to Answer For His Victims Death He IS
 Prominent Merchant.
Special to The AgeHerald.

with murder
 Jointly with pr. W. H. Lipscomb, Jack
 Is accused of the murder of Charles T. Stewart It is the story of murder for | money, and in many respects is similar to that of the one in which H. H. Holmes
 was the defendant. Because of this sim l ilarity to one of the most sensational | cases in the criminal annals of the | world, and because of the prominence | of the accused, the case has challenged | intense interest from the first. .ts pr. Mpscomb was given trial at the | March term of court, and being found | guilty, is now awaiting death on the
 Guy Jack, one of the wealthiest mer- | chants in East Mississippi, ana does 1 business in the little village of Seoooa. l His reputation for honesty in business 1 dealings has never been of the pest. l Charles T. Stewart, the victim Of the 1 tragedy, was a poor man, who forineIly l lived about three miles east or oeoooa ofs 1 with his wife and her uncle. Lipscoiho was his family physician.
 On Thursday afternoon, Jan. 2l, last, | Stewart who had been Sunef1ng dfoni
 some trivial ailmens for several o3gs' called upon Dr. Lipscomb, and, dsscr4p- dng his symptoms asked to be gwen | prescription for his relief. The pre- scription was written and L.pEcomb car ried lI over ito a drug Store owned py pr. Bellooney. This was contrary to h.s
 usual custom. RLs professional partner | conducted a drug store, ard LipEeomb | always had his prescriptions flied there. | He gave as a reason for devisting from has usual custom, that he knew his part | ner was out of one kind of drGg for | which the prescription called. The prescription called for ten grains | of bromide quinine, tsn grains or ant | kamnia and 3-60 of a. grain Of strycn- n.ne, which medicine was to be placad in l three capsules. Mooney filed the pre- scrip don, gave it to pr. Llpseomb who paid him and departed. Later Stewart was given the box by Lipaconb. A few minutes after he received the box Stew art opered 1t and expressed some sur prise when he said there was only one large capsule, though the prescription | called for three. Eds aged father so testified in court.
 l Though distru2tful, he went out to his | home and vert in and ate hearty SUD- | per. He spent few moments In coa- vensatioln with i-he members of the fam | fly, ard later, having bathed his feet, | followed the instructions of his physl-
 cfan1 and swallowed the capsule, after | which he retired. His wife had preceded | him.
 | lit was not long after Stewart swal- | lowed the capsule until his wife noticsd that he was jerking and shaking and
 was in cc,nvulsions. His wife attempted
 to allay the pain with @ drink of whisky
 and the man rallied somewhat, but he l quickly los: consciousness.
 The second convulslon was followed by an interval of consciousness, during
 which period Stewart was rational. Call- | ing his wife to his bedside, Stewart made his dying declaration, which has done much howard the conviction of one, and will figure as evidence against another. | He said: "I am going to die; I have been dead but the good Lcrd has sent
 ma back to tell you that Dr. Lipscomb | killed me with ahe capsule he gave me l tonight. Guy Jack had my life insured | and hired Ldpscomb to kill me-" After delivering himself of this sensa- l tionat charge, Stewart passed into a l third convuh5ion and a moment later was l a corpse.
 When the facts surrounding the sus- 1 picious death of Charles T. Stewart be- l came known next morning the little vii- | lage of Scooba was stirred. And whsn | 1t leaked out that there was $21 900 in- surance on his life excitement was en- l hanced.
 An autopsy was held and 1t was the 1 opinon that the remains bore unmistak- l able evidences of strychnine poisoning. | The physicians present took out Stew | arts stomach and a portion of the vitaa5 and sent them to the state chemist at l Starkville for chemical analysis. The chemist submitted his final report to l Hon. A. M. Moore before whom the in- | quest was held. Thorough chemical pro- l CESS from one half of the contents of the | stomach he had obtained 9.27 of grain l of strychnine, and as the poison seemed l to be uniformly distributed, it was his 1 opinon that sthere was a grain and 1 half in the stomach and contents, when 1 the ana1ysis was begun. Making allow ance for absorption there must have been at least three grains of strychnine in the one capsule.
 At this Inbn M Stewart ma affidavit against Dr. w. H. Lipscomb, | charging him with the murder of his | son. The aged physician was at once l placed under arrest and 8 few days | lated arraigned before Justice Moore for | a preliminary hsaring. The hearing had | not progressed far before the case was carried to the circuit court by agreement | of counsel.
 The grand jury at the March term of 1 court took hold of the matter and con- l firnled the general belief that there was another besides Dr. Lipscomb involved | in the death of Stewart, when 1t returned | bills of indictment against Lipscomo and Guy Jack also. The latter gentle
 man was at once arrested and placed in | jail.
 l Lipscomb was given a trial before | Judge Hudd1aston at DeKalb and was | convicted and sentenced to die on the | gallows on May 12, following. A mo- l tion for new trial was overruled and ! the cdSt WIS C<ttIico lO tiiC- ctptNihC 1 court which tribunal will make dis 1 posal of it in October
 1 Jack was tried before Chancellor A. M. | Byrd, on a writ of habeas corpus for | bail, which was denied him. An ap- l peal to the supreme court resulted in 1 his atdTnittance to bail in tha-sum of 1 $10000, winch was promptly furnished. There are some who believe that at l the eleventh hour Jack will turn states l evidence. This belief is founded upon letter written by Jack to the insur- l ance companies several weeks ago. in l which he intimated his willingness to
 "squeal," provided he was guaranteed 1 protection, adding that he was in a posi- 1 ton to turn the light on in several fam i fly closets and expose the skeleton.
 When Jack is put upon the stand to
 testify in his own behalf he will be ask 1 ed to explain this.
 l During a suit in chancsry several years ago, in which Dr. LipscoJnb's wife was suing Jack for the recovery of some money-her first husbands life insur- l ance-whfch she had loaned him, Jack. when testifylng, told of his efforts to | bring aboutthe marriage between Dr..