Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-03
IS IT A CASE OF POISONING7
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have tipped over of itself; at least not
bottom side up. There was hole in
the lining of the top where Wolfe's
head had gone through. He heard they
were seen to go through Tony at about
$50. He had picked up an empty beer
bottle with q cork in it on the scene.
The inquest then adjourned until
Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday DR.. H. C. Johnson, who is
also justice of the peace at Glen
Flora, appeared before the jury and
told how he had examined the bodies
after the section men had tipped the
rig off them. There was strong odor
of liquor and his opinion was that they
had died of acute alcoholism. He
thought they might have been dead
two hours when he got there. He
thought that most any poison that could
have been used and acted so quickly
would have left evidence of commissions.
He said that it would have required 72O
grains of choral hydrate GENERALLY
used as knockout drops") in the
whisky to have produced death.
VIM. Deihn, section foreman at Glen
Flora, arrived on the scene of the &C
cident with his crew about 7:30 He
shouted to the persons under the rig
but got no reply. With the help of his
crew he tipped the rig over toward the
road. 1t was bottom side up with the
bobs up in the air and leaning away
from the road. He saw no foot prints
about there, and the sleigh had dragged
only about eight feet. The foot prints
of the horses indicated that they made
rheturn slowly and not too short. The
ditch was not unusually deep. When
they tipped the rig back onto its side
the man was carried over with the top,
but the woman lay with her face in the
snow. He did not notice that the man
still held the reins. DR.. Johnson arrived
about an hour later
John Houser of Tony was probably
the last person to speak to Mr.. Wolfe.
The team had stopped in the road just
the other side of Tony and he passed
them on his way to work about 5:45.
1t was too dark to see. but their
voices sounded distinctly, although their
reply to his salutation caused him to
believe that they were drunk.
Alfred Ferris, living half mile east
of Tony, heard a rig with sleigh bells
pass along the road going east about
a. M, accompanied by loud talking
and singing.
Bob Maxwell, working in Sam Stew
arts Camp near Sheldon, kneW the
Richards woman for the past year; met
her first in Michigan; had visited hel
once since she came here, about jan
uary 10th. She had told him that she
was married to man in Milwaukee
named Fellers; that her real name was
Lizzie. Her father name was Gagnon
and she had a step.father named Elliott
living at Prairie du Chen. The Holmes
woman had requested him to make ar
engagements with the saloon keeper at
Sheldon for accommodations for her
folks whenever they wanted to go
down there. He did not think the
Richards girl was ''dope fiend' and
was positive that she did not commit
suicide.
Orville Davidson was feeding his
team at Ryall's barn about a. m. and
looked through the window of the Office.
He saw woman lying on the couch
and man seated on the edge, but did
not see their faces. Wolfe was stand
ing in the middle of the floor. There
was beer bottle and what appeared to
be cigaret box on a chair.
r. Kempt was recalled and stated
that he never saw a woman rave as
did the Richards woman at the time of
his return to the house at midnight,
but still maintained that the quarrel
was caused by practically nothing. He
stated that no other woman had left
the house since he had been there,
which was ever since it was built
When questioned minutely by some of
the jurors he appealed to the district
attorney as if for protection.
H. A. Dimock made an examination
of the whisky brought him by Sheriff
McNally, but found no poison in it. He
thought he would have found some
thing if it had been charged heavy
enough to kill anyone.
The inquest adjourned to Monday af-
ternoon, the 18th inst, awaiting re-
turns from the chemist to whom the
stomachs were sent.
There are numerous and varied theo-
les, with evidence TO bear out but few
of them.
There is the suicide theory.
The theory that the position in which
they were pinned under the sleigh
would have caused death in an hour
even if they had been perfectly sober.
Some argue that under certain con-
ditions pint of whiskey and quart
of beer might kill person.
The poison theory however predomin-
ates, and the question is, Where did
it come from?'
The Holmes woman has been SUBJ
poenaed for the hearing the 18th.
The body of the Richards woman was
buried by the county Wednesday, her