Poisoned by His Wife.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 126, 31 October 1885, Page 6

Poisoned by His Wife.

Montreal, September 18.— -Charles Wilsoa is possessed of a young and beautiful wife, and the couple move in thebestsociety. Seme time ago the husband became suddenly and unaccountably afflicted with a very queer illness. Be consulted his physician, who, while treating him to the best of his ability, was unable to enlighten him in regard to his disease, Young "Wilson continued to grow worse until an astound ing revelation solved the difficulty. It appears that Mrs Wilson was enamored of Bertie Smith, a highly respectable young man with whom she had spent some time at Murray Bay in csmpany with Mrs Beaudry, lately a widow, who had also found a lover in the person of a well-known Alderman. Affairs were progressing swimmingly until Mr Smith, the father of Bertie, becoming 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 she frequently stated that she was slowly doing away with Wilson, her husband, by administering to him doses of ground glass. This was a horrible discovery for him, and not daring to approach Wilson, he went to the latter' 3 brother-in-law, a well-known contractor, and confided to him the letters. He lost no time in calling upon his 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 illness. Wilson 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 handwriting and read the endearing terms in which she add rested young Smith, together with her descriptions of how she was progressing with her work of glow 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 beat. The guilty wife, hearing that her murderous plan had been discovered and her busband knew all, decided to never again see his face, and hurriedly left the oity, thereby avoiding prosecution, She is now in Boston, stopping^ under an assumed name at one of the principal hotels.

A circular has been addressed to the Great Powers by the Sublime Porte, inviting delegates to a conference to be held at Constantinople, objects being restricted to the consideration of the Roumelian question. A joint note has been despatched to Servia from the Powers, warning her against the' consequences of maintaining her present bellicose attitude. > /'i■ - - •