Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-07-15
wardc was In despair when he -,

tons AS soon as he had swallowed
his breakfast he jumped on street
| car and went to the iail
Wright was very glad To see him.
and the jailer allowed the newspaper
man and the prisoner to have an in
tervicw in the rotunda of the Jail.
"fou have read the Journal?" said
Wright with smile.
"fcs. and it knocked me coId!"
But am prepared to astonish
you"
What do YOU mcan?"
why, that account is a lie from be-
| ginning TO end"
We'll. am certainly glad to hear
that
The fact is, an attempt was made
here in the Jail last night to poison
me"
TO poison youn'
"fes. to poison me. The drug was
put into my food, and of course | ate
it. | noticed II peculiar taste. and
shortly afterward found myself grow
ing very drowsy. called for the
jailcr at once and told him I thought
had been drugged. Fortunately he
had doctor here in five minutes who
detected the evidences of morphine
and immediately took steps to relieve
me. The cructation was preserved
and examined at my request. and the
doctor found that the poison i'm il
would have rendered me "A corpse in
less than an hour"
Have you found the man who made
this attempt?"
No, and | fear il will be impossi-
ole. 1t was agreed by the iailcr. the
doctor and myself to say nothing
about it until thorough invcstiya-
ton could be made. The poison could
not have been put in accidentally by
the cook, for no one else i'm the mil
was effected. The food must have
been poisoned after it was put into
the bowl-my supper was a sort of
grucl-and il must have been done
by the man who handed me my bowl
| could not tell who did this. as scv-
cral of the prisoners volunteer each
day to act as walters"
of course" said Warde. you could
not have Il personal enemy among
these men"
Certainly not"
lit is evident that this poisoning
scheme WAS designed outside of the
Jail. and that some one Of the prison.
ciS WAS bribcd To slip the drug into
your portion of the food"
at looks that way beyond a doubt"
irving Warde felt that the unseen
antagonist was again at work. He
NhNrrcd when he thought of the re.
sources of his adversary, who could
Affect the changing of the pistols in
The suburbs south OF the city. and
the attempted murder of a prisoner
IN the jail in the northern part of
the town. He realized now that il
WAS no ordinary foe that Young
Wright had to fight. Shrewd intclli-
S"nc'. IN abundance of money, Il COM
maud of ready tools, perfect un
upuIouSneSS, and murder itself
wcr" all pittcd against the man
The attempt on Wright's life had
one rcassuring quality, it convinced
Narde that the mind engineering
these operations was not satisfied
with the case already made out
against the young man, otherwise the
law might have been allowed to take
.., WY 'd"S III me
'"ta' MeakhesseS which
"'E' wa" !" ."e discovery OF the real
:, '"'''''''' "uu somehow the life of
'''' virgin S'"od TN thc way OF
Wv '', ~, OF NelIed pur-
'S' me same motive which de
''''''" '"e me OF John l. Wright
now demanded that of his son; and
ward" could not help thinking that
'''''' Tremendous issue was at stake.
- some TAI reaching Programme was
Fl'"'"S ''""' 'ieroer'S pelng
mn
T.. ,t.s ',,"S" nus we're running rapid
"'""S" ",9 h'hd Whllc Wright
'"''''"'" !" u'Sc"SS me aHAr OF the
"E"' '''"'e' '''" hh'liy the reporter
"NNr''