The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04


piece of ~ candy to the boy, Frank
! Prgl. I divided the rest of the candy
| among the children, hers and mine,
but 1 kept this piece separate in my
hand and gave it to him. 1 gave it
| to him about eleven o'clock that morn
ing and he was throwing up while we
were eating dinner already and he was
sick after that for about two or three
days but he got better after that and
wouldn't throw up SO much. About
a week or so after that on the We'd
nesday before the second day of July,
1910, had my little girl Katie write
Ia note to Mrs Kudlik that Mrs. Mike
KudGk could buy that washing ma
chine now,' and gave it to my wife to
take over to Mrs. Kudlik's, my closest
neighbor. While she was gone the chill
dren, my two. biggest girls and her
children, were out in the swing and I
came into the house then and they
came in too, the two little ones,
frankie and Mary, and wanted some
bread. 1 gave it to them. Then l
gave them that poison, too. / gave it
to them in water in small whisky
glass. l got the poison in the granary
, after l gave them the bread. | went
to get it, j had the glass with me, and
put pinch of the poison into the
glass and then put water into it when
II got back. l mixed it up with my
finger and gave it to the boy and he
drank it down. He held the glass him
self. There was IL little poison settled
i'll the glass after he drank it, and
II poured some water on it, 1 pumped
some water into it and gave it to little
Mary to drink. She drank it. The
water stirred it up and l pumped il in.
This time | gave it to them in the
evening, when my wife was at Kud-
lik's with the note aud the little girl
was sick before my wife got back.
If J remember right, think the bow
took sick after supper. | could no.
tice it OH him that he wasn't right.
They continued to be sick until thew
died ON the following Sunday. Frank
died i'll the morning of Sunday, July 8,
about seven O'Clock: The little girl died
i'll tho evening about or close on to ten
o'clock OF the same day, Mrs.
kudllk came over to my house
on Saturday. before eleven o'clock and
told my wife that the children should
be taken to the doctor, and my chill
dren came into the field and told me
Mrs. Kudlik says you ought to take
frankie to the doctor. came home,
ate dinner and went to DR.. White at
Montgomery. We left shortly after
twelve O'Clock. and got there some
where around three o'clock in the after
noon. We took them both. frankie
and Mary, to my wife's mothers house
and | went and got the doctor from
the office and fetched him over to the
house. lie examined them and pre-
scribed some medicine and / took him
to his office. l paid him for the trip
and he gave me a slip of paper and
handed it to the drug store man to
have the medicine put up. That is
the drug store where DR.. White has
his office. l held the boys hand while
my wife gave him the medicine when
we got home. 1 put the medicine i'm.
my pocket and one bottle we had be-
tween us on the seat as we were going
home. When we got home I gave the
capsules to my wife. l gave the medi-
cine to John Havls to read in Mont.
gomery and / said that it was time
enough to give them the medicine
when we got home. DR.. White told
me to leave the children in Montgom-
cry but | wanted to take them home
with my wife because there was one of
mine sick at home too. On Sunday
morning L called DIR. Moench and he
came i'll the automobile and maybe he
got there about fifteen minutes after
the boy died, he looked at him little
bit and then went and dOctored the
little girl airy and l think he pre-
scribed for her and sent me for lnedi-
cine to lie Sueur Center. He gave one
piece of paper, | am sure of. and one
for my little girl Katie. Z went to
Radamacher's drug store and had the
medicine prepared. He started at it
right off and gave it to me and then
/ went home. | have paid him since
that time. | got home about noon
time; they were setting the table. Il
gave my girl the medicine and gave my
wife the other bottle. II took me
about three-quarters of an hour to wa
er and hitch up my team after DR..
Moench got there and then l started
for the medicine. DR.. Moench came
again in the afternoon. I cannot say
whether l heard DR.. Moencl say that
1T looked like case of poisoning or
whether / heard some of the neigh
bors say that DR.. Moench said so. II
was kind of scared. at the time but
after Dr. Moench called the second
time he named it infantile paralysis.
DIR. Moench fixed his automobile ON
his second visit and it took him quite
q while and stayed with him and
helped him. He punctured a tire. Il
wanted to get rid of the little boy
and girl when | gave it to them and
then of myself too. | wanted to kill
them. When l was in Jail DIR. Moench
called on me. | sent for him, and lie
told me that the state chemist found
arsenic poison in the stomach of those
children and that he couldn't 90
against it. After / was released from
Jail DIR. MOench called ON me in the
field and during the talk said that
should 60 and sue the coroner for