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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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ster powerful remedies to save them from speedy death. Throughout the whole of Thursday night their sufferings were very great, but at a late hour yesterday afternoon their condition was much easier. Four of them, however, are still very ill, and their recovery is considered doubtful. As soon as the facts of the case became known, a negro woman, named Amanda, slave to Samuel Overton, but who is hired as the cook in Mr. Clarke's family, was arrested; as was also George, slave to Benjamin A. Hatcher, who is charged with being accessory to the foul transaction. Amanda had promised to make some cakes for Mr. Clarke's children to take with them to school, and on Thursday morning she baked them, putting into them an amount of prussic acid which would have certainly ended the lives of the children if medical assistance had not been obtained so soon afterwards. What could have prompted this deed on the part of Amanda, (of whom Mr. Clarke's children seemed very fond.) is a mystery to