In the same week in which a death from strychnine
is reported in London where there was an almost total absence of the usual symptoms, an account has arrived from Melbourne of a suicide by the seine poison, where the convulsions, rigidity, and arching of the body, expected in such cases, were powerfully exhibited. The patient was a young inan, who, driven by pecuniary distress, swallowed strychnine in a glass of brandy which a friend gave him in a tavern. At first his looks denoted intense anxiety ; then followed the usual frightful convulsions; and the moment before -he died, he shouted at the top of his voice, in answer to a question what poison he had taken, " Strychnine !"
Father Lawrence, who as a native of Germany ministered to Redanies before his execution, denies the truth of the very circumstantial newspaper narrative of the way in which the asaassin behaved as his doom approached Father Lawrence says he exhibited Christian rather than Mahometan feelings—attending sedulously to the priest's instruction and prayers ; and, so far from exulting aloud at the prospect of soon meeting his "dear Caroline" in another world, he did not even mention the names of his victims to Father Lawrence during the last two days of life, though he frequently expressed sorrow for his crime, even with tears.
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