The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-03-27
They Died Suddenly After Eat
ing Supper; Brother-in law
Says She Poisoned Them
PHYSICIANS DECLARE
MORPHINE WAS USED
WOMAN HAD PREVIOUSLY TRIED
TO GET RID OF THEM BUT
FAiLED-EXPERTS ANA.
LYING STOMACRS.


The Paducah Democrat of
yesterday conta ned the following ac-
count of an alleged wholesale murder
of children b their mother in tnat
city Friday ght:
Tomorrow, mother may be dead,
ana Sister Ola may be dead, so let
be as happy as we can today"
Five hours later four-year-old Ola
Brockwell lay dead in the little three
room house of her mother. Mrs. May
Rockwell, at Nc 337 Ashbrook ave
nue. and Lucy her nineyear-od sis
ter, who had uttered these prophetic
words, was dying. The third victim Of
tie most inexcusable folly, or one of
the greatest crimes perpetrated in Pa
ducah for years, was the youngest
ch Id of Mrs. Rockwell, Lillia, three
years old, who died at O'Clock yes
terday morning
Last aight "P nix" Broek1cH, n
brother OF Mra Droehwell's insane
home of hee cousin, Lcyy Gamblir. at
No. l5l Clemm0ns aven5e, Wh-r2 she
had taken refuge ilo1 th huldrcds
of curious nc.glb rs So fCcke1 o
her home, aad agcc ~cets.cg ae7 o.
poisoning the three children thICa
cnad p bring mob 70 lynch her
The death Of the three Brockwoll
children were due % poieoning
This was jhe unan nous decision
reached by half Cozeu Of the most
pom nent physicians of this city who
were with them when they dicl, and
the police are now trying to run down
the person or persons responsible for
the crime.
DR. J. w. Pendlay, who held an au-
topsy on the bodies yesterday after
neon and who found absolutely no
trace of p!omaine poison in the cab
bagc the children ate Friday night
and which il was supposed causcd
their death, stated last night 10 re-
ported for TIE News-Democrat that
he was confident that death was due
to opium poisoning.
The pc son was administered in the
meager supper of cabbage and bacon
eaten by the children Friday even
ing.
Mrs. Mary Broekwell is twenty
eight years of age and has lived a.
he Ashbrook avenue address for
three years Less than one year ago
her husband, Klenny Brockwell, be-
came insane as the result of intense
rel gious zeal, and was sent 70 the
Western Kentucky Asylum for the
Insane at Hopkinsville.
Since that time the woman has
supported her four children with
great difficulty ana has made repeat
ed efforts to have them adm tied 70
the Home for The Friendless in this
city Failing in this, she received as
sistance from various charitable or
ganizations, the police. and several
chari;ably disposed individuals.
Il Did Not Do IT," Mother Says.
God knows that | did not poison
my children. said Mrs. Brockwell
last nigat. when she told the story of
their deaths
"On Friday afternoon ! went TO the
grocery of Mr. John Greer, at No. 229
Ashbrook avenue. which is near my
home. and spent the last okel had
for a head Of cabbage. | took II home
and later in the afternoon prepared il /
for supper During the afternoon the /
four children were at nome except (
yaen Hazel. who is eleven years old, I
carried the baby to visit a neighbor. I
she was away two hours. Wh lie she /
was gone was all alone except for /
the olher two children. who played /
around the yard and sang.
Hazel the eleven-year-old glrl, Is
the only one of Mrs. BeOckweii tour 4
children VINO did not fall a victim oil /
the deadly cabbage. /
while she was playing around II
froat of the door, Lucy ran mp 10 me
where sal on the porch and said.
Mamma. I love God. because he
loves me. am going 10 be good 30
thai when I die will 90 TO heaven
and meet Uncle Jim. Tomorrow /
may be dead. and Ola may be deaH'
SO let's be as happy as we can 90
day i
Il bcneya he child was fareWaTned
of her death
Mrs. Brockwell's Story.
~When the cabbage and onions ana
corn bread we had for supper were
nrepared. all of us went to the table
but Hazel and / could not eat any
thing.
The cabbage seemel TO TASTE
Green and Shiny. and after ! hau
tasted tso or three mouihfuls I
stopped eating it, Hazel said it tasted
tine sane way 10 her. but tle other
children seemed TO enjoy il The bit
fe- taste We experienced id nos seem
10 bother them at all, and they ate
all Of the cabbage.
Alt.r .-llnl.Er lmn q ~ IIlendE.