The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-20

eHo norseII ola the telephonlng, as part OK
the plot to fncriminate Mrs. Rathom.
When Miss Campbell returned at even
In she found the package awaiting her.
She did not intend to open 1t, but Mrs.
Schetb recognized Mrs. Rathom's hand
writing, and was curious. When Mrs.
Scheib accused her of being afraid to eat
the candies, the presence of two sewing
girls embarrassed her and she and Mira
Scheib did eat from the top layers
Then Miss Campbell began to fear.
Suppose that the candies had got shak-
en- up in the mailsi
Suppose that little, just little, of the
arsenic had been shaken out Of the knife
opened candies in the bottom of the box
and had found it's way to that top layer
while the box was upside down in the
post office!
Miss Campbell grew maddened by her
suppositions.
She suspected that she was beginning
to feel sick.
Yet the sewing girls and Mrs. scheib
were there.
She had to conceal her fears and wait
Perhaps no poison had been taken.
1t was foolish to be so frightened.
Then she wondered what the first symp-
toms of arsenic poisoning were.
Was arsenic quick poison or a slow
poison2
She tried to think. but there had been
no poison case in all her girlish expert
ence.
Yes, the Botkin case-and death, death
to two women, was the story of that
crime! 1t was an awful time for young
Miss Campbell, but she did not dare to
betray herself.
Mrs. Scheib might die and she might be
branded and convicted as the poisonerl
Or Mrs Rathom might be hanged, and
she didn't want that.
Mrs. Scheib laughed and talked and
was witty, but Miss Campbell perspired
and began to feel an Illness coming on.
She mentioned 1t, Ter mental relief.
Mrs. Scheib said it was nottingham
she. too, did not feel just right.
And the girls alarm took sudden
growth.
She was surely getting sick.
Was it the first Of the symptomsf
Nearly two hours Of the anxiety had
passed away.
The girl could stand it no longer.
She got up and ran for the nearest durg
store.
when Mrs. scheib got sick" proceeds
Miss CampbeTs own statement, It took
some Of the powder to the drug store on
Larl1in and Ellis streets, and the boy
told me there that it was not arsenic.
'T insisted upon having an anthote any
way.
He gave me soma mustard and an
anttdote I asked him whether I should
take the antidote right away, but he said
no. he would not take 1t right away.
at did not know whether 1t was the
poison or the medicine, but I was very
sick.
st went homo and tried to get Mrs.
| Scheib to. take some of the antidote, but
she would not.
at poured some into spoon and took 1t
myself, for fear had eaten small par
ticle of the arsenic"
She became worse than ever. Terror
stricken, she telephoned for Rathom, who
| promptly responded. Rathom summoned
! Mr.. Scheib, whose wife had unconcerned-
ly gone to bed.
Mrs. scheib Is poisoned" declared
Miss Campbell, and sho wont take the
| antidote Make her take ttP'
Mr.. Scheib rushed to his wife's room
| and found the woman peacefully asleep.
| He aroused her rudely, fearing that the
! seeming sleep was but stuporI and In
| alarm she sat upright"
Are you poisoned" inquired Scheib,
who had tho bottle Of antidote and q
spoon
Poisoned? Why, no! Who said was9
Miss Campbell then felt sure that only
| she herself had been poisoned. She took
some more mustard and another anudote
and the poetry of life faded further away
| than ever. Rathom had vainly tried tic
find a doctor, SO he took charge Of the
case himself; and she made me take one
cup after another of mustard" says Miss
| Campbell.
With antidotes and emetics the young