Show A story the following story whether true or false we n e cannot say is s the talk of a vil il lage in in the parish of halifax and bordering de ring on bradford it appears that a certain woman w oman felt her spouse an incumbrance and unmindful of her marriage and the rigors of the law revoked ved on his disposal after a method now alas too common she ap applied PI aed to the dru druggist in the village village for s six ix penny penn worth of arsenic arsenic ile he very iery pr properly 0 perly refused to sell ell her the article and aid informed her husband of the application at the same time t ime inquiring ot or him for w hat purpose his wife could require such a quantity of su such chan an article the husband replied jocularly that he be could not tell it unless n less it was for the purpose of poisoning him and told the druggist that if she applied again he must sell some harmless article in in lieu of the ars arsenic nick and they would vi see what her objects were she did ap ply pi again again and the wary w ary apothecary delivered d her some carbonate of soda magnesia nesia or other comparatively inn i drug warning the hu husband searild of what had occurred lehen hen he went w ent home he found a meat pie prepared for dinner he pretended pre ended at first want of appetite and her to help herself she bhe refused 1 and at last he ate a quantity of the pie 1 in a little tine he professed himself unwell then feigned thirst then alarming sickness and finally fine py death th the treacherous woman manifested great concern during these the instant death appeared to her to have oc burred she passed a rope through the chamber floor and 1 knit nit it to her husbands neck in order that ii when hen neighbors were called in in he might 11 appear to have hanged himself she then ran up stairs to draw up and fix the rope the instant she had disappeared the dead man rev revived ived released himself from the rope and passed it round the leg of the table and the woman hung that useful and domes tic article instead of the other one the husband the latter also ran up stairs inquiring of the faithless woman what she was after drawing the table up that dav the affair adlar was has ended for the present sent in in his as the phrase is is taking the law in his own hand he has agn en n her as yorkshire folks say a right dolc doar goo good h aidin hiding r 7 leeds eng |