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II lUl'U-I£»ll WQmg it of thei mar-cotj a houso city.—, pome appro-loner i\ rush cl stand mpany, lie cel-persona 53 woro osed. nil iy man's her iho mringo rlnko of 3 festalHnlf of n, Mo., n lornn-A pas-and St. nek nod*□Ted-—, wherelorro of between g much i in Elk-lolkbeii, r si fam-rtm-l WUU lt;301die?.Trial and Conviction of lagac L. Wood.Tbe second trial of Isaac L. Wood of Dnoevillo, chnrged w?tb procuring the death of his brother and brother’s ■wife, sorao two yoars ago, after having be on in progress Lwo weals, terminated last Salurdoy in his conviction. The following resume of Tacts, which wo tnko from the correspondence of tho Rochester £/juon,werfl in pnit published by us last January, at tho time of his Grst trial:About the 1 Oth of June, 1S5G, on a Saturday evening, David I. Wood ■ was Lnken suddenly ill, his wife then being absent at tho cast, and after liogoiing soma four or fiva days in great ngony, he died. At the timo tliero wri9 much perplexity among his friends and physicians as to the cause, but it was finally concluded that tho disenso was cholera morbus. Isaac L. was present, and hnd tho caro of tbo brother during his sickness. Mr*. Wood was sent for, ond returned immediately, nnd in connection with an-olher Wood brothor, was appointed administratrix of Lhe estate of her Jala husband.In a very few dnys after this event, Mr?, Woed and both her children were seized wiili nil Ilie symptom^ attending the disease of her lato husband, nnd although Lbe cliil drcn both recovered, tho mother died and Has buried, nmidsl lbe sorrow and oatima-lion of her frienda and relatives, Much sus picion was entertained of poison in liercaso, but from come strange fatality, nothing was clone toward investigation, and excitement on Lbe bUbjocl eventually died nwny. Meanwhile Isaac L. became guardian of iWo orpjjiifl* of n I-Woe Jr and con I rolled -Ih^
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Hornellsville Tribune
Hornellsville, New York, US
Thu, May 20, 1858
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