The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23

| HSH 'Hc SicS' .'"cArT, HIS lace pale
with anger: pointed to the door.
"Cct out! Get out! Thank the
Lord they're not I'll like you'll
MIR. Armour telcphoned to his wife
to get in her carriage and meet him at
the wretched abode Of the sick woman.
tic asked her to pile in" everything
she could think Of in the way of deli
cacIes and necessaries to supply the
immediate wants Of young mother
aud child. lie then teiephoned his
own physician, ordered MIN TO bring a
nurse and go with all haste to the
help OF the sick woman. Not satis-
fed with that, he left his great busi-
ness, and, jumping into cab, hurried
to the sick room.
This story illustrates Tho sympa-
thetic nature of the man.
One Of the Armour "poisoning
cases had seri-comic side, although
it had euvush seriousness from on.
point of view. It was in 1894 that a
poisoned bottle Of wine was sent to
MIR. Armour and this is the story con-
nected with it. Two discredited
newspaper men who had been kicked
out OF every Office in Chicago put their
heads together to produce a "fake"
story that would "sell'' throughout
the country.
They went to the city editor of the
Herald and told this story:
"Last night we slept at hotel On
the North Side. We overheard two
men in the next room conspiring to
send Philip d. Armour bottle of
poisoned wine. They declared they
would send it the next night by mes
seDgcr boy from the Palmer house and
would also send letter signed Potter
Palmer We desired to lay for that
messenger boy. We went up to Mr..
Armour's house just at dark tonight
and watched. Sure enough about 8
o'clock up comes the boy with a pack
age under his arm. Just as he reach
ed the Armour door Mr.. Armour came
in from neighbor's house and asked
the boy what he wanted. The lad
gave him package. Just then the
door opened and Mr.. Armour signed
the ticket, gave the boy coin, and
then the door was shut. We rushed
over, rang the bell and after some, lit
tie time were admitted. We asked
MIR. Armour if he had rec ,ived bot
tie Of wine from Mr.. Palmer. He
asked 'Why?' Because it. 8 poisoned
| said. He turned pale and rushed up
stairs. He was gone a long time.
Then he came down and asked for our
story. We told him just as we have
you. He gave us SIS apiece and took
our address.
"You can verify this story. We
want 800 for the exclusive story in
Chicago and the right to schedule it to
outside papers, referring to you as
city editor to show it's straight"
"Your yarn is pretty thin," said
the Herald editor. 'If Mr.. Armour
got bottle of poisoned wine or wine
that was not poisoned it isn't hard to
guess who sent it. But I'll investi-
gate it. You stay right here for a
time"
Men were sent out in cabs to round
up the messenger boy who took the
Wine to Mr.. Armour. He was found
and at midnight brought to the Office.
There he identified one Of the ''fakirs"
| as the man who sent the bottle. Then
there was fall Of two bright young
men.
Now the serious part of it is that
tho wine was really poisoned-poison-
ed to make the "realism" the more
perfect. The conspirators knew they
|, would stop the wine from being drunk,
and then when the analysis was made
and showed the drug a nice reward
might be expected from Mr.. Armour.
Mr.. Armour said afierwsrd that he
took the wine upstairs to Mrs. Armour
who was feeling badly. He had the
bottle uncorked, poured her out a
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