The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-27
POISON VICTIM.
Richard Tilghman, a Rich Presi'
dent of Philadelphia, Pa,
TAKES FATAL DOSE
By Mistake in tue Dark, and. Realiz
ing His Mistaks, Calls His Wife
and Children, But Nothing
Could Save Him. Phones
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Friends Good Bse.

Could Save Him. Phones
Friends Good B.e.
A awful tragedy occurred at Phila.
delphis about ten days ago.
Knowing that his life was to pay
fo-feis in few hours fo1 his tasal
mistake n taking poison from a bot
Tie il the medicine caest instead Of
she harmless drug that be sought IL
she dark, Richard I'ilghman, a So
c;e5y man, clu5man, mamber OF tie
City Troop, 3 descendant OF one OF
the original Maryland families sn6
c;esely related to the Whelsns an6
Li2pipcotts, made every arrangement
,hat prudence or sentiment dictated
before he died
BE irsJ bad b1ps that bis life could
be saved and waking up his wife IL
their apartments at the fashionable
Lincoln, No. 1920 L Gust street, and
his daughter, fifteen years old, aud
son thirteen years cid and told then
,Ehat Lad happened.
Mrs. Tilghman, who was Gabrielle
!:e Potstad, daughter OF the beautiful
marcioness de Potstad. Fornari, at
one tine lady-in. waiting TO lsabella,
@ .een OF Spain. and the children did
everything possible to aid husband
mo father in the Efforts to save his
lie, but when they found that they
did not make favorable progress, MI
Tilghman directed them to telephone
for doctor.
The physicians fought hard to eff
set the effects Of the poison, but hac
20 admit that they had exhausted
their remedies and that MI. Tilgh
nan would have to be prepared for
the worst.
he teok their verdict philosa pically
and directed thata telephone message
be ssnt to his brother in Bryn Mawr,
sum mnonirg him to the Lincoln.
Tell him TO take an automobile,
50 that be will got here in time," said
the dying man.
Send fer the priest, and when it
Is all over take my body to the house
3f my brother, 80 that 1 may be
buried from there
Mr.. Tilgnnan expressed his regrs:
to his wife and children that be
should have made such a fatal mis-
take, ~hen they were going to sail
from New York the next day for an
e1tended toar Of the Continent.
Then, after he had told them OF
ONE arrangements that must b
uade, he tad telephone brought T..
lis bedside, and called up nauy OF
Ms friends in tRe city, to bid theI
| fare veil
The priest came and heard the COO.
fession ct tae dying man, and admin.
tsteced the last rites OF the Church.
Fiighnan then asked his wife anS
cai 0ren to draw near the bed, anc
chile The physicisns, one Of them 6
friend from boyhood, withdrew to a
corner Of the room, he made his
louching farewell to the little group
hat be loved above al. He told
hem not to worry, as il was q fate
from Rhich there coull be no escsre
md then he sank back in bis beo
SILL racked with the pain which b.
| lad endured wish such wonderful for
5itude, and in fev minutes VIZ
dead.
Mr.. Tnghnan had spent the even.
irg at a reunion and banquet OF tie
class OF '66, University of Pannsylva-
MIA given at the. University Club. he
had been in the habit Of taking tab
let's when troubled with slight attack
Of rheumatism. and when he -eturneo
20 his apartments shortly after 2
O'Clock, darkened his room and re
tired, before he rememoe oered that be
should have taken tablet.
After extinguishing the light
said Mrs. TilghnaD, "he desired et
5s ke the l.uhia tablsts, as be nas beer
suffering lately from muscular rhsu'
nauism. Two bottles OF the saue
ize and shape were side by side, ore
containing antiseplic bichlcriie o1
mercury tablets and the other citrate
Of litnis, and in the dark he chose tbs
wrong bottle.
He placed tso OF the tablets io s
tumole OF water, stirred them unit
they dissolved, then he took three O.
four swallows before he noticed th'
error. By quickly drirkng some
sepid water, ns produced naUseaa anc
;hought that he brought up The entir
contents Of his stomach. Very soon
however, be was sez:d with cramps
Then he called me end explained tn
mistake ne had made
"Dr. " !. Roe, OF No. 1910 L3cns
street, was Immediately summoned
but the antidotes administered AM
the washing out OF the stomach faile'
20 save his life, and be died q fe1
minutes before eight in the morning
For six hours the physicians tough
for Tilghman's life. After Dr.. 30
nad worked over the c:ubnan for
while, they decided to send for Dl
Robert 9. LsConte, who had been
t lifelong friend OF the clubman. TIE
they all went to work together.
? The dying msn suggested a nunbs
ut sntidotes, al Of which we're trie
without giving him any relief.
The bookings for the Europea
I tour were cancelled by Lieut.. Co
ri!ghnan, brother OF the deceased
asst evening, and arrangements wei
: made, in accordance with MI. Tilgf
{ mans request, to take the body
{ the brother's house, where the fune:
I 81 took place.
6 Mr.. Tilghnan was born in Phil;
! delphia at the residence OF bis p'
e rsnts, Mr.. ard Mrs. Richard a. Ttlgl
( man, No. 32l South Eleventh stree
s forty-one years ago. He was ed
}: Gated in Philadelphia, and was gra