Albuquerque evening citizen., 1907-02-02
PECULIAR STORY
Of WIFE'S
DEATH
Wisconsin Court Probing MyS-
terry of WOmdn'S Death
on Street Car.
CANON CITY, COLO.,
IMPROVEMENT CARNIVAL
Phoenix. Arr. Puts Into Effect
Most Stringent Cam
bling Law.

Superior, Wis: On the result of
an analysis of a bottle supposed to
contain hydro-cloric acid, found i'm
the clothing of Mrs. NJ G.. johnson,
who died under peculiar conditions
on Monday night, will depend the ar
| raignment of the woman's husband
in court, where he will be called upon
to explain alleged suspicious circum-
| stances
Johnson. who conducts a shoe
shining parlor at 1911 Tower avenue
was taken into custody by Detective
MCGOWAN, at the direction of Chief
McKinnon. He is being detained at
the central station pending an analy-
sis of the contents of the bottle in
question, when it will be determined
whether an autopsy of the woman's 5
| stomach will be held. The bottle
supposed to contain about two ounces
of the drug stated, has been turned
over to Prof. w. c. Lounsberry,
chemist for the water company, and
Prof. A. d. Whealdon, of the normal
| school, who will make an analysis at
the normal school laboratory
Further search of the woman's
clothing yesterday revealed a box of
sulphate of strychnine pills About
half a dozen pills had been taken
from the box, but the physicians who
attended the woman state that they
| would have had no direct bearing on
| her death, for the reason that she re-
mained in a comatose state from the
time she was taken from the street
car at 1890 o'clock Monday morn
ing, until she expired. Had the wo-
man taken any quantity of the pills
| the physicians say she would have
| become hysterical at times.
Opium Poisoning indicated.
DR.. G. ii. Conklin. who attended
| the woman late Monday afternoon,
stated that she appeared to be suffer-
| ing from opium poisoning. This
view of the case was also taken by
Drs. Beck and McGill, who saw her
during the afternoon. Although the
woman remained unconscious. the
three physicians, who called at differ
ent times, stated they were of the
| opinion that she would survive. In
the morning no such symptoms were
| noticeable.
While the body lay at the morgue,
Johnson was busy about his shoe
shining parlor. He expressed him
self as fearful of the effect on his
business affairs, when told by the
officer that he was wanted at the CEN
trail station. He said he did not see
why he should be placed in a cell,
saying that if given his liberty he
would be on hand for any call of the
police.
When seen at the station. Johnson
said that he and his wife had been
complaining about indigestion for
some time. They had been reading
about different cures for the trouble,
he said, and stated that a friend gave
him a bottle of hydro-chloric acid as
remedy for the maladay on Sunday
last.
Took Drug With Her.
Before leaving for her work on
Monday morning, johnson said his
wife put ten drops of the drug in
glass of water, of which they each
drank an equal part. He said that
they had been told that four drops of
the drug was a dose for one person.
He says he told his wife to leave the
bottle at home, as he might want to
take some during the day. Johnson
claims to have believed that the bot
tie was i'm his home until annriSad II