Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-21

and thought possibly could friShten
her from using my name publicly, and
that was my whole object in doing it.
u assure YOU never had any
Thought OF injuring anybody, and the
poisoned candy was safely tucked In
the bottom OF the basket. the top lay
erS being perfectly free from any ar
Senic."
After the poison was received Mrs,
Scheto recalled that earlier in the day
some woman had inquired by telephone
whether Miss Campbell had received a
package by mail, She felt sure II was
Mrs, Rathom's voice.
Miss Campbell. nowever, confessed
that she herself did the telephonlug.
as part of the plot to iurrimnate Mrs.
! Rathom,
When Miss Campbell returned at
evening she found the package await
I ing her, She did not intend to open
1t, but Mrs Srheib recognized Mrs.
Rathom's handwriting. aud was Gu
rtous When Mrs. Scheth accused her
of being afraid to eat the candies, the
presence ot two sewing girls embar-
raised her and she aud Mrs. Scheib did
eat from the top layers.
Then Miss Campbell began to fear.
Suppose that the candies had got
shaken up in the mails,
Suppose that little. just a little, OF
the arsenic had been shaken out OF the
kntte-opencd candles in the bottom OF
the box and had found its way to that
top layer while the box was upside
down in the qostoilice,
suppose
Miss Campbell grew maddened by
her sappostions,
She suspected that she was begin
ming 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,
II was foolish to be so frightened
Then she wondered what the first
symptoms OF arsenic poisoning were.
Was arsenic quick poison or a slow
poison?
She tried to think, out there had
been no poison case In all her girlish
experience.
Yes, the Rotkin case--and death,
death to two women, was the story OF
that crime! II was an awful time for
young Miss Campbell, but she did not
dare to hetray herself.
Mrs. Schelb might die and she might
he branded and convicted as the poi.
soncr!
Or Mrs Rathom might be hanged,
and she didn't want this.
Mrs. Scheib laughed and talked and
was witty. but Miss Campbell perspIred
and began to feel an illness coming
| on.
She. mentioned 1t, for mental relief.
Mrs, Scheib said 1t was nothing
that she. too. did not feel just right
And the girls alarm took sudden
growth
She was surely getting sick.
Was II the first OF the symptoms?
Nearly two hours of the anxiety had
passed away.
The girl could stand II no longer.
She got up and ran for the nearest
drug store.
when Mrs. Schcih got sick pro
reeds Miss Campbel's own statement,
Il took some of the powder to the drug
store on Larkin and Ellis streets, and
the boys told me there that It was not
arsenic.
81 insisted upon having an antidote
anyway.
HE gave me some mustard and an
antidote. asked him whether
should take the antdote right away
but he said no. he would not take IL
right away.
~ did not know whether 1t was the
poison or the medicine, but ! was very
sick.
II went home and tried to get Mrs
Scheb to take some Of the antldote,
but she would not.
II poured some into "A spoon and
took 1t myself. for fear had eaten n
small particle OF the arsenic"
She became worse than ever Ter
ror-strlcken she telephoned for Ra-
Thorn. who promptly responded. RIA
Thorn summoned Mr. Scheib. whose
wife had unconcernedly gone to bed.
Mrs, Scheib Is poisoned" declared
Miss Campbell. and she won't take
the antIdote. Make her take It,"
Mr.. Scheib rushed To his wIfes room
and found the woman peacefully
asleep. He aroused her rudely, fear
ing that the seeming sleep was but
a stupor, and In alarm she sat upright.
Are you poisoned?" inquired scheib,
who had the bottle Of antidote and q
spoon.
Poisoned? Why, no! Who said
was?"
Miss Campbell then felt sure that
only she herself had been poisoned
She took some more mustard and an
other antldotn. and the poetry Of life
faded further away than ever. Ra-
| them had yaInly tried to find a doc
| tor 40 he tnOk charge NJ the case him