Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-11-25
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r1cnnlne. OnOfJiy aILeF eight O'CLOCK
she came down stairs from her room
and asked the lady of the house for a
teaspoon, and securing the spoon she
went into the dining room, where she
partook of very light breakfast and
then went up to her room. Shortly
after the domestics of the house were
summoned to her room by screams for
help and when they entered, the girl
fell backward on the bed and her limbs
| began to stiffen, and before medical
assistance could be summoned she was
dead The girls home is in the town
of Weston but for few weeks past she
had been in the employ of DIR. and
Mrs w c. Dickens A few days ago
she left the employ of the Dickens fam
| lily and up to the time of her death had
been about town with another girl,
Gertrude Hillsberg. On Thursday
afternoon they were out riding with
| young man. Late in the afternoon she
engaged room at the Central House
and again joined her friend and to-
| gether they went TO the Delm0nico
restaurant where they had supper.
Previous, however, to their going out
riding the girls called at the drug store
on the west side and Miss Odette asked
for ten cents worth of strychnine, stat
ing that she wanted it for her mother,
who was going to use it for the pur-
pose of killing rats with which her
home was infested. She was told that
strychnine was not sold in such quanti-
ties and was advised to use Rough on
Rats, but this advice she declined and
purchased one drachm bottle for
fifty cents. Here she gave the name
of. Grace Hazleton, which was entered
upon the poison register. She did not
inform her friend of her intentions,
but probably secreted the bottle in her
room until she would be alone.
After her death two letters were
found on a dresser in the room ad-
dressed to young man. They were
lengthy and she had evidently spent
much of the night in writing them.
From the contents of these letters it
was noted that the girl was evidently
much enamored with this young man,
and stated she had always been true to
him and would continue so even unto
death. To her friend she had told
of this love affair, said she had been
engaged to the young man and then
Tilted, and wept and appeared much
worked up over the affair. 1t is to
this fact that q cause has been assigned
for her rash act.
After the coroner had been sum-
moned he empanelled jury of the
following gentlemen: F. l.. Hudson,
c. j. Winton, E. " Speer, e. b Mayer,
w. Schoenebeig and E. Nj. James.
They went to the hotel viewed the re-
mains and then began the taking of
testimony. The first witness was Miss
Hillsburg who told story of her re-
lations with the Odette girl substantially
as given above.
An adjournment was then taken to
Monday 10 allow an autopsy to be made
on tn remains.
At ten o'clock Monday morning the
inquisition was again taken up and
witnesses examined. Miss Hillsberg
again repeated her story of her relations
with the girl and Fred Behnke told
of taking the girls out riding on the
afternoon previous and of their move
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of the girls coming to her, house, and
| of her actions while there, and domes-
tic of the house, Miss Reichl, told her
story of the girl asking for the spoon,
of her eating breakfast and of finding
her in the room afterward. Clarence
! Champagne, the young man with whom
deceased had been keeping company,
was called, but proved poor witness.
In the first place he is sadly lacking in
knowledge OF the meaning of words in
the English language, and when ques-
tons were propounded to him in the
plainest of words he found difficulty in
graeping their meaning A further fact,
which he admitted at the close of the
| examination, was that all through such
he endeavored to evade the correct
answers to questions. He denied that
he had been unduely intimate with the
| girl and yet admitted that he had adj
| vised her 10 go to physician, for rea-
| sons he did not wish to be made known,
at first claiming that the girl had in
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barrel DIR. Rosenberg read record
of his Investigations in making an au-
topsy which showed very little trace of
| strychnine in the stomach. There was
some in the throat, however, which was
proven by chemical test. He also
found complications in some of the or
gans, some recent and some long stand
| ing.
In the questioning of some of the wit
nesses the facts were brought out that
| in some individuals and in some places
in this town state of moral depravity
exists that should be investigated and
! it was these facts which caused the
| jurymen to incorporate clause into
| their verdict calling attention TO the
matter. The case was given to the jury
at noon and the following verdict
rendered
| State of Wisconsin, !
| Marathon County.
An inquisition taken at the Central
| House in the county of Marathon for
the people of the state of Wisconsin on
| the 2lst and oath day of Nov, 1902, be-
fore me, w. c. Dickens, for the said
| county upon the view of the body of
| Eunice Odette, there dead, by the jurors
whose names are hereunto subscribed,
who being duly sworn to inquire on be-
| half of the people of this state when, 10
| what manner and by what means the
said Euniee Odette came to her death,
upon their oath do say that Eunice
| Odette on the 2lst day of Nov, 1902, did
| with the intention TO end her life, ad-
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