Friday, April 13, 2012

Demented Woman's Deed

She Puts Arsenic in the Coffee Pot and Poisons the Entire Family

Catlettsburg, Ky., May 8. - Mrs. George Carter, who resides with her husband in Lawrence county, Ky., ten miles west of Louisa, made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to poison her entire family with arsenic Monday night. For some time the woman has been in a very despondent mood, and her friends fear she is insane.
On the day mentioned she placed a quantity of arsenic in the coffee pot. After the family had partaken of the evening meal, all became seriously ill; medical assistance was summond, and the woman told what she had done, adding she wanted to die, but did not wish to leave her husband and two children. One of the children is expected to die.

[Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, May 8, 1891]

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