Poisoned by his Wife

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 61, 31 October 1885, Page 3

Poisoned by his Wife

Montreal, September Tfgj^Charles 'Wilson is possessed of a yoking and beautiful wife, and the couple move the best society. Some time ago the Jiusband became suddenly and unaccountably afflicted with a very queer illness. Ha consulted bis physician, who, while treating him to the best of Mb ability, was unable to enlighten him

in regard to his disease. Young Wilson continued to grsw worse until an astounding revelation solved the difficulty. It appears that Mrs Wilson was enamoured of Bertie Smith, a highly respectable young man with whom she had spent some time at Murray Bay in company with Mrs Beaodry, lately a -widow, who had also found a lover in the person of Alderman. Affairs were progressing swimmingly until Mr Smith, the father of Bertie, alarmed at the extravagance of his son, conceived the happy idea of opening his trunk, when to his surprise he came across a number of letters from Mrs Wilson in which shet frequently stated that she mg «low]f doing away^ with Wilson, her hmbMi'V by administering to him doses ground glass. This was a horrible discovery for him and not daring to approach Wilson, he went to the tetter's brother-in-law, a wellknown contractor, and confided to him the-letters. He lost no time in calling upon bis afflicted brother-in-law, , who. had already the appearance of a man in the' last stages of consumption, and revealed to him the secret of his illnest; Wilsbn at first could not be prevailed upon, however, to mistrust the affections of his wife, but when the!, letters were produced; and he recognised her hand-writing and xead the endearing terms in

which she addressed young Smith together with the descriptions of how she was progressing with her work of slow murder, he gave in. He finally decided to leave his wife in the hands of his brother-in-law to do with her as he thought best. The guilty wife, hearing that her murderous plan had been discovered and her husband knew all, decided never again to see his face, and hurriedly left the city, thereby avoiding prosecution. She is now in Boston, stopping under an assumed name at one of the principal hotels.