The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-03-15
Answer.-John S. Engle.
Question.-What is his age?
lnswer.-About sixty years,

Answer.-About sixty years.
On being requested to tell what
he knew about the case he said, ."I
first saw him in my room up stairs
He came into my room before ! |
was up and we had some conversa-
tion. lie said breakfast is about
ready; after saying that he spoke
Of Cuba. Then he said to me, /
suppose Dottie told you the words
we had the other day, he said
told her that L thought she took
Barbara's part and she denied it
and we had some words about it;
he said, 1 was telling out of fix
about some other things and said
things that / should not have said
and for which l am sorry, he then
spoke about a regular monthly al
lowance for my mother, saying he
would be willing to allow her
twelve dollars month which she
had agreed to accept last fall, but
did not think she would be willing
to accept that amount now, asking
me to talk to her, saying, you have
more influence with her than any
of the others. / told him l would
talk to her about the matter and
said il was my opinion that L could
get her to be reasonable about the
matter; that is all the conversation
l had with him up stairs at that
time; we were called to breakfast
by my wife or mother; father step
ped out of the room and l supposed
he had gone down stairs, but be-
fore 1 had fi.iished dressing he
came into the room again. We
talked about the current news of
the day and we went down to
breakfast together; while l was
washing he went to the cupboard
and took what supposed to be the
quinine bottle and said he was
going to take dose of quinine,
that he did not feel well, that he
had taken dose the day before.
He then ate breakfast after taking
the quinine; soon after sitting
down to the table and before mother
had flushed pouring all of the
coffee he took his cup and went
either into the kitchen or small
porch adjoinidg where he poured a
portion of the coffee away and re-
turning to the table he asked
mother who still had the coffee pot
in her hand to fill up his cup; she
asked him what had been ;he mat
ter that he poured part of it away
and he said, oh, there was a scum
over 1t; within ten or fifteen minu-
tes after finishing his breakfast he
complained of feeling chilly, and ii
couple of minutes later, he said
that his head felt dizzy and com
planned of pains throughout the
body; he then walked across the
floor to bench in the room and
laid down on the bench; in walking
across the floor he staggered and
complained that he could scarcely
walk, I moved the table away and
undertook to do something to re-
lieve him and thinking that it
might be plurisy l first asked for
Jamaica ginger, but as there was
none about the house, 1 told my
little boy to run to lis grand moth
er's for s)me whiskey or brandy {;
when this was received | tried to
get father to take some of il but he
said he could not swallow; we also
tried to get him to take some med.
icine out of another bottle (this
medicine is a substitute jor morphia)
he said he could not swallow it;my
mother and l then applied mustard
poultices to his wrists; there was
no change in his condition, we sent
for Drs. Dye and Smith; mother
suggested sending for the doctor
soon after he was taken sick, but
father said he thought he would
81 ON get better. He asked me re-
peatedly what thought was the
matter with him, told him that /
couldn't tell and did not know
what TO do. He said have seen
people in spasms but never saw
anything like this. if it had been
you would think it was hydra
phobia, as you were bitten by dog.
ALTERNATING the first two or three
spasm', he took a large pocket
book from his peck 1t, handed IL to
me, and said, take care of this, it
contains money and papers; you
can put the money in the bank
when you go to Logan. He died
about one o'clock p. III. standard, in
convulsions. The cup from which
he drank the coffee has been pre-
served with the coffee grounds in
III the bottle containing the quiz