The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-04-25
BENDING OVER HIS WRITING
VICTIMS HE WATCHES THEIR
LIFE LIGHT FL|CKERS OUT.
History of the Most Outrageous Crime in
Americas History.
Maniac Doctor Pays the Penalty For His Awful
Crime on Last Friday Morning.

Did the insensate desire of DR.
Oliver Crooks Haugh to delve int
the mysterious effects of the stim
ulatiye and narcotic poisons upor
the human system result in hi,
mental ruin, the murder of hii
parents and brother, aid his fina
execution "before the hour of sun
rise on the morning of April 1872
Did he experiment upon himsel
and his companions until he
caused the death of several of the
latter and finally wrecked his own
reason and became raving mani.
ac with horrible desire to take
human life?
These are the questions that the
prison physicians and other Off
cials at the penitentiary are ask
ing themselves, now that the gift
ed criminal has gone the way of
the chair.
There is evidence galore tending
to prove the truth of these coniec-
lures. During the incarceration
of DIR. Haugh in the prison annex,
DR.. j. M. Thomas, the head ply
sician at the penitentiary, held
many conversations with him, and
almost at the outset of his ac-
quaintance with the Dayton doctor
was struck with his unusual
knowledge of the action of hyocine
hydrobromate, cocaine, coedine
and morphine upon the human
organism.
With his study of the physiol-
ogy of the nervous system, DIR.
Haugh combined the vague, weird
principles of psychology, and it
was in this way that he studied
the effects of the drugs.
He would introduce the drugs
into his system either by injection
or by way of the stomach, and
even in the spasms of wild deirium
induced by these chemicals the
wonderful mentality of the man
would assert itself and upon his
recovery he would recall perfectly
the fantastic terrors and horrible
apparitions of a hyocine dream.
These sensations he would ana
yse and endeavor to account for,
and when he had explained them
TO his own satisfaction he would /
again give himself over to the
irugs and again become a raving,
,estial maniac.
Even while a student at Cincin-
,ati Medical university DR.. Haugh
vas strange, silent, morose man,
md at that time it was suspected
hat he was victim of the drug
labit.
He finally graduated, hut the
I'D habits remained with him and
became more firmly fixed. For
ong time his mentality remained
uch that in his moments of sanity
he was the same polished, cultured
medical man that his early associ-
ties remember.
At this time he became intimate
With Miss Jennie Twohey of Lima.
The two were together for some
ime and finally Miss Twohey be-
anne i'll and in short time death
esulted. Upon her death bed she
3 alleged to have told her physi
ians that DR.. Haugh, unknown TO
erself, had experimental upon
Ter with the same drugs that he
imself was accustomed To use.
'othing was ever proven regard
ng this charge
After this, DR.. Haugh seemed
. lose his grip on his intellect
nd at times would become a mere
east. Several times he was con
ned in hospital for treatment.
At this time one of the most
orrible blood'eurdling events oc-
lrred that America has ever
nown.
AT this point the investigators |
ere confronted by question that
ley feared 10 ask even them
slves, III the answer should he Z
yes" it would mean that in Day {
IN a crime had been committed {