Year: 1877

afiiction. The Judge approached
her and inquired what had happened
She said che going back to her hus-
bands birthplace to bury him and
that the corpse was In the baggage
car. In reply to a remark that the
death seemed to have been very
sudden the girl began to cry and
told the Judge that she had killed
her husband by accident. She said
they had lived quite happily together
for about four months, when she dis
covered that he wac surreptitiously
visiting and corresponding with
young woman who lived several
miles away. She had ascertalued
these facts by intercepting some of
the correspondence. As soon as the
husband found out that his amour
had come to the knowledge of his
wife he resolved to murder her. So
one morning he ordered his breakfast
early, announcing his intentention
to drive to town several miles dis
tant from York, where they lived.-
Just as they wore sitting down to
breakfast be sent his wife for some
bread and in her absence emptied
into her coffee cup arsenic enough to
kill half a dozenpeople. But as she
was returning to the table his horses
which were hitched at the door, be-
came very restive and began to pull
at their halters. He rushed from the
table and went to attend to them.


While he was gone the wife noticed
some coffee grounds or other impu-
rites floating in her husbands cup;
and, woman like, took it herself set
ting her own cup, which was clear,
by his plate. He then came in and
ate his breakfast AS he rose from
the table and began to put on his
overcoat, he was seized with cramp
in the stomach, sncceeded by violent
pains, dizziness and utter prostration.


The wife, alarmed, assisted him to
the lounge and sent negro boy for
the doctor, who lived few doors
away. The doctor came in a few
minutes, and pronounced it case of
poisoning as soon as lie saw the symp
toms. After few moments of ex-
animation of the patient, the doctor
said the case was hopeless owing to
the corrosion of the walls OF the
stomach, which had alredy taken
place; that he could allay the pain
while the sufferer lived, but that was
all. Upon the ministration of ano-
dyne the patient recovered his speech
and lived several minutes in a con-
scious state, during which he made a
confession, and called the doctor and
other neighbors who had come in to
witness the facts above stated. A
post fhortem was held, and a verdict
rendered by the coroner's jury in ac.
cordance with the confession of the
dying man and the testimony of the
physician and other witnesses. The
facts are Of Judicial record in Judge
Mackey's Court. If ifhad been put in
the form Of plot in a romance, crits
les would bave declared them TOO in.
credible to be made the basis Of af1
Fiction protesting to represent the
possibilities of poetic Justice in real
lite:


Another incident was even more
remarkable. Ono merning, said the
Judge, I was opening court, Col. In-
gram, planter whom had known
for several years, stepped up to the
bar, accompanied by his nephew, a
boy of thirteen. This boy was the
son of Major Crawford, Of the Con~
fedcrate army, who fell at Gettysburg.
He was pale, slender little fellow,
quite effeminate and unusually bash


tul. Indeed, said the Judge, he act
ed more like girl than boy. Col.
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