ANOTHER SUICIDE. On Friday afternoon last, Robert Scott, of Wabash Twp, died very suddenly, and under circumstances, calculated to create the impression in the minds of his neighbors that he either had poison administered to him or had taken it himself.
An investigation was started. Drs. Jennings, Sr., McCloud and Jennings Jr., testified to finding traces of arsenic in his stomach, and that his lungs were very much congested. Wm. Maloney, P. VanCreasy and others testified to the fact of calling and seeing the deceased the morning of his death – of finding the empty paper and of his actions – that he had had a law suit during the week, which had been decided against him – that some of the witnesses swore they would not believe him under oath, which so wore on his mind as to cause him to be down-hearted from that time to his death – that he told some of them after the trial, that no one would ever have the chance of saying again that they would not believe him.
His wife testified that Mr. Scott arose on the morning of his death, rather earlier than usual, dressed himself, went out of doors, and then came back and laid down on the bed, a thing very unusual for him, and at breakfast all the nourishment he partook of was part of a cup of coffee, and shortly after drinking it, commenced vomiting, and went to bed, where he died about 4 o'clock, P. M.
His children testified to the same thing. One of them saying that his father told him a few days before his death, that the children must be good to their mother and to one another, for he would not be with them long.
He leaves a family consisting of a wife and five or six children, the youngest only about a year old. He was seventy-four years of age, and is represented to have been a hard-working honest old man. Of late difficulties we know nothing as to who was in the right or who was in the wrong, and as he has gone now to answer to a Bar of Justice where the Judge is a searcher of all hearts, it is not right for his neighbors to judge him harshly here. They should remember his virtues.
Final verdict of a jury was that Robert Scott came to his death from the effects of poison, administered by some person or persons unknown to the jury.
SOURCE: Clark County Herald, Friday Sept 15, 1871, P-6, Col-2, Pub. Marshall, IL.
An investigation was started. Drs. Jennings, Sr., McCloud and Jennings Jr., testified to finding traces of arsenic in his stomach, and that his lungs were very much congested. Wm. Maloney, P. VanCreasy and others testified to the fact of calling and seeing the deceased the morning of his death – of finding the empty paper and of his actions – that he had had a law suit during the week, which had been decided against him – that some of the witnesses swore they would not believe him under oath, which so wore on his mind as to cause him to be down-hearted from that time to his death – that he told some of them after the trial, that no one would ever have the chance of saying again that they would not believe him.
His wife testified that Mr. Scott arose on the morning of his death, rather earlier than usual, dressed himself, went out of doors, and then came back and laid down on the bed, a thing very unusual for him, and at breakfast all the nourishment he partook of was part of a cup of coffee, and shortly after drinking it, commenced vomiting, and went to bed, where he died about 4 o'clock, P. M.
His children testified to the same thing. One of them saying that his father told him a few days before his death, that the children must be good to their mother and to one another, for he would not be with them long.
He leaves a family consisting of a wife and five or six children, the youngest only about a year old. He was seventy-four years of age, and is represented to have been a hard-working honest old man. Of late difficulties we know nothing as to who was in the right or who was in the wrong, and as he has gone now to answer to a Bar of Justice where the Judge is a searcher of all hearts, it is not right for his neighbors to judge him harshly here. They should remember his virtues.
Final verdict of a jury was that Robert Scott came to his death from the effects of poison, administered by some person or persons unknown to the jury.
SOURCE: Clark County Herald, Friday Sept 15, 1871, P-6, Col-2, Pub. Marshall, IL.
ANOTHER SUICIDE. On Friday afternoon last, Robert Scott, of Wabash Twp, died very suddenly, and under circumstances, calculated to create the impression in the minds of his neighbors that he either had poison administered to him or had taken it himself.
An investigation was started. Drs. Jennings, Sr., McCloud and Jennings Jr., testified to finding traces of arsenic in his stomach, and that his lungs were very much congested. Wm. Maloney, P. VanCreasy and others testified to the fact of calling and seeing the deceased the morning of his death – of finding the empty paper and of his actions – that he had had a law suit during the week, which had been decided against him – that some of the witnesses swore they would not believe him under oath, which so wore on his mind as to cause him to be down-hearted from that time to his death – that he told some of them after the trial, that no one would ever have the chance of saying again that they would not believe him.
His wife testified that Mr. Scott arose on the morning of his death, rather earlier than usual, dressed himself, went out of doors, and then came back and laid down on the bed, a thing very unusual for him, and at breakfast all the nourishment he partook of was part of a cup of coffee, and shortly after drinking it, commenced vomiting, and went to bed, where he died about 4 o'clock, P. M.
His children testified to the same thing. One of them saying that his father told him a few days before his death, that the children must be good to their mother and to one another, for he would not be with them long.
He leaves a family consisting of a wife and five or six children, the youngest only about a year old. He was seventy-four years of age, and is represented to have been a hard-working honest old man. Of late difficulties we know nothing as to who was in the right or who was in the wrong, and as he has gone now to answer to a Bar of Justice where the Judge is a searcher of all hearts, it is not right for his neighbors to judge him harshly here. They should remember his virtues.
Final verdict of a jury was that Robert Scott came to his death from the effects of poison, administered by some person or persons unknown to the jury.
SOURCE: Clark County Herald, Friday Sept 15, 1871, P-6, Col-2, Pub. Marshall, IL.
An investigation was started. Drs. Jennings, Sr., McCloud and Jennings Jr., testified to finding traces of arsenic in his stomach, and that his lungs were very much congested. Wm. Maloney, P. VanCreasy and others testified to the fact of calling and seeing the deceased the morning of his death – of finding the empty paper and of his actions – that he had had a law suit during the week, which had been decided against him – that some of the witnesses swore they would not believe him under oath, which so wore on his mind as to cause him to be down-hearted from that time to his death – that he told some of them after the trial, that no one would ever have the chance of saying again that they would not believe him.
His wife testified that Mr. Scott arose on the morning of his death, rather earlier than usual, dressed himself, went out of doors, and then came back and laid down on the bed, a thing very unusual for him, and at breakfast all the nourishment he partook of was part of a cup of coffee, and shortly after drinking it, commenced vomiting, and went to bed, where he died about 4 o'clock, P. M.
His children testified to the same thing. One of them saying that his father told him a few days before his death, that the children must be good to their mother and to one another, for he would not be with them long.
He leaves a family consisting of a wife and five or six children, the youngest only about a year old. He was seventy-four years of age, and is represented to have been a hard-working honest old man. Of late difficulties we know nothing as to who was in the right or who was in the wrong, and as he has gone now to answer to a Bar of Justice where the Judge is a searcher of all hearts, it is not right for his neighbors to judge him harshly here. They should remember his virtues.
Final verdict of a jury was that Robert Scott came to his death from the effects of poison, administered by some person or persons unknown to the jury.
SOURCE: Clark County Herald, Friday Sept 15, 1871, P-6, Col-2, Pub. Marshall, IL.
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