Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-28

knowledge Of the murder Of these
three girls.
W. c. Parish, a brakeman on the
Baltimore & Ohio railway, was in DR..
Haugh's rooming house in Lorain the
night of February 16, 1904. He be-
came Ill and Haugh gave him treat
ment. Then he began growing worse
and was taken to the hospital. where
he died.
81 gave him medicine" Haugh ex-
planned when an ambulance called for
him. But it doesn't seem to have
done any good"
The physicians thought Parish was
suffering with pneumonia and made no
investigation.
DR.. Haugh advocated the painless
killing of all aged and infirm people
and those suffering from incurable dis
eases while he operated in Hamilton, o.
Before the Transformation.
1t is only five years ago that DR..
Haugh was considered an authority in
the state of Ohio on the origin and
composition of drugs, and about his
laboratory there hung an air Of mys-
terry and fascination for the people Of
Dayton, for he boastfully declared:
81 am at work on the evolution of a
drug, which in it's perfection, will Gre
ate a new era of science, a new order
of thought, and a new race Of beings.
l will bring into the reality Of day
something more wonderful than
Stevenson in his widest dreams ever
imagined. l will prove that which he
only suggested-the certainty that two
beings can exist in the one body, the
one blotting out the influence Of the
other"
In those days he had a pretty home
on the outskirts Of the town presided
over by a comedy, confiding little wom-
an who was happy in the thought that
her husband was on the verge OF a
great discovery which would some day
startle the world Of science.
The Unmasking.
But imperceptibly at first there
came a change over him. He secluded
himself more and more within his lab
oratory, and what at first the wife
thought were only the effects Of close
study at last proved to be the violent
reactions of the drugs he had been
taking, for one day she rushed into the
house of a neighbor crying that her
husband, suddenly transformed into a
fiend, would kill her. 1t was no longer
the DR.. Haugh, whom his wife and the
public had known, but the monster,
Mr.. Hyde, which his drugs had Gre
ated. Henceforth he IA to be under
the power and control Of that other
self, that evil personality, which had
been created and fed by the drug he
had been experimenting with, hyoscine
hydrobromate.
The Dark, Mysterious Chapter.
And now begins the dark and mysteri-
Gus chapter in his career for which
officers of the law are trying to find
explanation in the long list Of MUIR
ders laid at his door. And the long
limbed. loose-jointed, shambling fig
ure sits in his narrow cell alternate
ly crying for the drug which has
transformed his nature and brought
him within the shadow of the gallows,
end cursing the officers who have
placed him behind the bars. He seems
Indifferent, nay, rather fiendishly glee-
full, over his plight, and in talking
about the crimes charged against him,
says:
"They say that l murdered my ia
Their, my mother and brother with
hyoscine for the sake of the money,
Then they say that when I have taken
enough Of the hyoscine the man with
in me disappears, and Hyde is the
power. 1t seems as though | must do
something-destroy something. My
only recourse is to get out into the
street-out into the open country
away from men and women, lest l
murder them. 1t is possible for me to
have killed these people and know
nothing of it. 1t is possible for me to
have committed all the other murders
of which they accuse me, and In my
normal condition be in ignorance, for
in my normal condition l am another
man. All that I do know is, that IL
I die for these crimes, | shall have
al least established the proof of the
theory on which I have always insist
ed-that two beings, one of good, the
other of evil, may exist in the same
man, and in that respect at least I
shall have rendered a distinct service