The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-21
WEIRD STORY
A Girl Poisoned to Death by q
Dead Man, Was
WAS HEB SUITOR.
Takes Fatal Poison He Lett When He
Killed Himself a Moath Ago. He
Gave Her tie D-adly Poison,
Calling it Love
WAS HEB SUITOR.
Charm.

pJ4SOu1NSS Oy SA0 o'- Sts-', OK"
passing all stories Of dea2a vac:s hg
disappointed sweerhsa-ts are tae c:r-
cunstances surrounding the death at
Paterson, n. j., Ct Nae agnes Nor
ton, a young woman OF n:oeteen, whc
q month after the death OF her suitos,
James Boucher, by his Own hand, feii
victim to the dead mac, murderer
in death.
Oaly his surprising belief in tie
wonderful power Of Jhe young &c
mans love for hin could have in> piieo
the far-reacnicg plot AID sens eht
young man to his grave conh1@nt tna1
his sweetheart, Innocent VI any luS5I-
tion upon her own HE, buo trusting
in the efficacy Of tie potion Ee nae
left with her at their SAD parting,
would soon follow hin 10 the LAND o!
the shadow.
The church has set it's seal upon
the verdict OF murder sSa!Gs5 the
Young man. acquitted Miss Mocton CT
The charge Of suicide, although she
confessscly died If poison g niniscei.
ed by her own hard, and permitted
her body 70 be laid at Ies5 IN conSs-
Grated ground.
1t was the law Of the E n2n Cath.
oltc Church which foroids the ourla!
of the selt-slain in consec-etec gccu2o,
invoked in this case OF behalf OF n SIS
Morton, that brought 10 ligGt the re
markabis story Of love, >u.cico a1c,
post uortem murder. Ia a spec Il
five weeks the plot was iccnea ano
made complete in the duel tragedy:
Miss Morton, well cCnn esd alo
socially crominent, who Lived ~Io:A
her father, Alexander M31-Gn, al NJ.
y Madison street, m=t, soaa n22tos
ago, James Bvuche., a young u Il OF
excellent ancestry, tie >neple* Of d..
William a. Norval, Ct No. 3Sl Maio
street, q member OF the Boar1 o.
Frseholders. The you1g man 2nd
woman became swestLeartS, but for
some reason there was or ,coioa t"
thetr marrying on the part CT Ms,
Morton's family, and st5er TIE esp;-
sition to their courtshio bad conJiA-
ued for some time, and had only ssrv
ed to cement the bond cf af, csico BE-
tween them, the young nan, despair
irg OF his suit, decided TO leave P-ts4-
son.
Before the final parting the plot ior
the death Of Miss Morton ans hinse II
must have formed in his mind, and ct
the last he put it into eSecu ion. H
gave to his sweetheart just before he
left Paterson on F. b.u4rs 50 enVe--
ope containing a nuLber OF t2blstS.
he told her that tGey were 1--we por-
tion OF charm, and that she Should
take one Of them every time she
thought Of him when he was abSen:; !;
that the mysterious power OF the tab
let's would brir 6. them into q c:o-er
communion CT souls, and tcat lie
would know she was U&inEcg Il nim.
The trusttul young wonan bslev~G
him, and jesl)usly guarded tee pre-
cious tablets, which were IN rtalAtg
corrosive sublina5e, and deadly.
On February 9 Boucher was fcuaG
dead in bis room il the Lea a"anna
Hotel, in Scranton, Pc. 1t. vss az
first believed that he had 5isi ot heart
failure, but further examlaa,l1n
showed that his death had resulted
from mercurial poisoning, and that he
had coubtless killed himself. u is
believed now that be also ,ock cc1-C-
sive sublinate 20 end bis life.
Miss Morton was so affecceo by tbs
6esth that she was proS5fated at he-
home and unable to attend the funer
81 Of lock upon the face e the cead
man. Her grief over bis dsath made
her forget about the potiol given &c
her by Boucher when thsy pared.
Miss Morton, gIieviGg oTe- tie
tragic death Of Boucher and constant
" thinking Of him, remembsreo few
days ago the tablets il 1ne envelope
and took a number OF them, Tsgacc"
less OF the pain they caused nec. Sna
took them jrsS cfIen enough to ifo
duce the cumulativa ef-c5 which re-
suited in her death.
When Miss Morton became III cn
THURSDAY it was beGsyed taat she
was suffering with gastri.S she grad
ually grew worse AID the phySiciails
diagnCs se6 the case as one Of p3iSGninG
but believed it to be psona;na. S1s
was then in dying coacition, a0G
the physicians Questioned her about
what she had eaten, and fcr toe
first time learned Of the exis.eZce o.
the love tablets.
The last rites Of the church vsre
administered TO the dying girl, acc
after her death search ~as nads ror
the tablets Of which She had spoken.
The envelope wh;ct had cont2 neG
them was found, but she had takso
all the tablets. Sooe powder from
them remained ard this YVES sDsfyz:d
and found to be corrosive sublia.aoe.
A letter written TO Boucher b. Ms
Morton probably the day after aa Isl
but never mailed, was fooGd anccnS
her effects, snd in It she spoke about
the tablets and her deterGication &c
take them.
DR.. Mcbride reached the technical
finding that the death Was su:cid 2,
but the authorities Of St. Joseph'S
Roman Catholic Caurch mace a. IL
vestigation and concluded that tee
dead man vas guilty of murder a2d
that the girl was bi.me!esS il Eer
death. Funeral services were held
over her body in tie church AID she
was buried in the Cemetery Of tie
Holy Sepulchre.
For Iner Monk 10 Msrry
Toeoph Graham who SDe1f * -co {