Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-04-14
. e me case was very pecuiiar.

ha NSSO0s
.-n.e ne rallied l believed he was on tho
a. ioau TO recovery; each time I was
sappolnted; without apparent cause ba
"oulu suddenly lapse back into tho old
eonoitlon. Thus, as you are aware limo
passed on; one day l was encouraged ovor
MS condition, the next day, discoura ped .
out never did l consider his cose trnly
alarming. uiS
On the evening of May first in return-
ing from a visit to a pat;ent +bo"ah4
would call in and see Andrew As 7
passed the gate, Earl came ont Of tbe
house hat in hand.
was Just going for you, DOCTOR he
saiu' MT. Kellogg has another relapse
hastened to his bedside and found
nlm IN commissions, his wife seated be-
size MIN, wringing her hands. Andrew
"as' OF course, unconscious, and in five
minutes he was dead man. l was ap-
palied. His wife seemed heart-broken.
Immediately notified you of his death.
Ihat night l paced the floor of nv office
until dawn, and when l left tie house
mad determined that Andrew kellogg had
Deen murdered-that he had met death
at the hands Of a second Lucretia Borgia
had been poisoned I realized that I
had been made dupe of-had been mis-
led III my treatment Of his case, and re-
solved that an inquest should be held over
his remains at once. I doubted not that
post norton would justify my conclu-
siOns.
Il made all haste to the residence to
view the corpse before calling on the cor
oner. AT eight o'clock I was there. An
drew kellogg had been but ten hours
dead man. His body had been already
embalmed."
Il am perfectly satisfied" said Amos,
'that my brother died from natural
causes. AS you have stated, there may
have been many peculiarities about the
case, but Of one thing I assure you-Eli-
nor Kellogg was devoted wife, and in
your surmises you are doing her the gross
est injustice. AS for Earl-pshaw, doc
tor! this is all bosh. But why did you
not go on and hold the post mortem?'
"Of what use? The body of Andrew, 1
stated, had been embalmed Embalming
fluid is composed Of the most deadly poi
sons. The cavities and blood vessels Of
the frame were filed with it. I was too
late. Now, why such haste in embalming
the body of her husband, unless to destroy
ooh, you are wild, doctor, wild! I my
self ordered the undertaken to embalm
the body not an hour after you had mott
fed me of his DEATH"
cat whose SUGGESTION"
''What? Oh, well, wife and I were at
the house twenty minutes after you had
notified me. We found Elnor bowed
down with grief, and no wonder-she had
L. bo. +ho+ r
wished Stephen could gaze upon his fea
lures ere his body was consigned to the
grave. Between her sobs Elinor asked
me if it would not be we'll to embalm the
body. The weather otherwise, you know,
would have precluded preserving the re-
mains for any length of time. l judged il
would be best and ordered it done at
once"
''And yet Stephen was not present at
the funeral. How could he have been
when the body was inferred two days
later?"
'True; afterwards realized the uncer-
tainty Of his being able to be present,
even a week later, and thought that by
consigning the body of Andrew to the
grave, might in some slight measure nit
igate the sorrow Of his widow. Thus,
you see, not a step was taken except by
me, and all your theorizing falls to the
ground. Andrew died from natural causes.
doubt not that your diagnosis Of his case
was quite correct, but all your skill could
not save his life. Pray think no more Of
this matter, nor mention elsewhere ,Tour
foolish suspicious. There is not one .sar-
ticle Of evidence to establish your claims"
'"Too true! And yet am perfectly sat
isfied that Andrew died from poison Of
some kind, subtly administered. l felt
it my duty to inform you. Certainly, as
I told Mr.. Sellars, there is no proof. Per
haps he might discover evidence. l re-
moved from Mr.. Xellogg's room after his
death, the remnants of all medicines L
had prescribed-they had not been tam
pered with. l had no license to open or
examine trunks"
'You would have found nothing con-
demnatory."
1.-The servants might have been the gull
ty parties
''Humbug, doctor! There were no gull
ty parties
''Then you do not feel disposed to follow
the matter up, perhaps by search OF the
madam's effects even noW!'
Doctor, you became needlessly alarm
ed. The only poison administered my
brother was after his death. But if he
had been poisoned, how could you estab-
lish the fact? Ask Sellars.'
Go be continued)
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